Passing on some more sources for all you cousins & friends.Hope this helps.
Sheryl
GENEALOGY SOURCE BOOKS FOR:
Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.
---------------------------------------------------------
On 1 January 1999 Willow Bend Books Acquired Family Line Publications and
created a new Company. This is now perhaps the largest selection of orignal
genealogy and historical source books, maps and CD's available to the
researcher from a single storefront. Call 1-800-876-6103 for a free catalog
and vist the web site.
http://www.willowbend.net
Willow Ben / Family Line
65 E. Main Steet
Westminister, Maryland 21157-5036
1-800-876-5036 or 1-410-876-6101
email: willowbend(a)mediasoft.net
At the web site
http://www.willowbend.net , for example, you can input the
word MILITARY where it asks for the State and get a long list of books
concerning old military records for sale. Read the instructions at the site
for doing your research.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Examples: (There are hundred more at the web site)
VIRGINIA'S COLONIAL SOLDIERS. Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck. American military
history began with the establishment of the Virginia colonial militia in the
seventeenth century. Although ill-trained, it was the colony's only defense
against Indian attacks and invasion by hostile powers. The records left are
fragmentary and scattered, and it has always been hard to locate them and
make them accessible. With the publication of this work that problem is now
behind us. From research based on county court minutes and orders, bounty
land applications and warrants, records of courts martial, county militia
rosters, Hening's Statutes at Large, the Draper manuscripts, and manuscripts
in the Public Record Office in London, we now have an authoritative register
of Virginia's colonial soldiers. And it is not merely a dry catalogue of
names and dates, for included are the military's "size" rolls which
routinely give the soldier's place of birth, age, residence, occupation, and
physical description. And sometimes this was made even more informative when
the enlisting officer recorded his impressions of the soldier. Little is
known of the ordinary people of colonial Virginia for they left no diaries
or journals, but now we have the rare privilege of coming almost face to
face with them in this remarkable book. 2nd printing Balto., 1990. 443 pp.
indexed. [GP1843] today $30.00
A GUIDE TO VIRGINIA MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION,
1774-1787. E. M. Sanchez-Saavedra. 1978. [LV6935] $24.95
VIRGINIA'S COLONIAL SOLDIERS. Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck. American military
history began with the establishment of the Virginia colonial militia in the
seventeenth century. Although ill-trained, it was the colony's only defense
against Indian attacks and invasion by hostile powers. The records left are
fragmentary and scattered, and it has always been hard to locate them and
make them accessible. With the publication of this work that problem is now
behind us. From research based on county court minutes and orders, bounty
land applications and warrants, records of courts martial, county militia
rosters, Hening's Statutes at Large, the Draper manuscripts, and manuscripts
in the Public Record Office in London, we now have an authoritative register
of Virginia's colonial soldiers. And it is not merely a dry catalogue of
names and dates, for included are the military's "size" rolls which
routinely give the soldier's place of birth, age, residence, occupation, and
physical description. And sometimes this was made even more informative when
the enlisting officer recorded his impressions of the soldier. Little is
known of the ordinary people of colonial Virginia for they left no diaries
or journals, but now we have the rare privilege of coming almost face to
face with them in this remarkable book. 2nd printing Balto., 1990. 443 pp.
indexed. [GP1843] today $30.00
UNITED STATES ARMY, HISTORICAL REGISTER AND DICTIONARY OF THE, FROM ITS
ORGANIZATION, SEPTEMBER 29, 1789, TO MARCH 2, 1903. Francis B. Heitman. This
is a complete list of commissioned officers of the U.S. from the
organization of the Army, September 29, 1789, to the year of the list's
original publication in 1903, giving the officers' full names and showing
their services as cadets and all services as officers or enlisted men,
either in the regular or volunteer service. The heart of the work, Part II,
an alphabetical listing of the officers, runs to some 60,000 entries. Each
entry contains a brief paragraph on the officer giving his state or country
where born, state from which originally appointed, date of induction, rank,
date of discharge, promotions, medals, battles participated in, and, in
about a fifth of the entries, date of death after leaving the Army. This
monumental book is actually a lot more than a listing of the officer corps,
as crucial as that is. Rather, it is a handbook on the men, events, and
terminology of American military life during the years of its coverage. 2
vols. 1,069 & 626 pp., indexed. (1903), repr. Balto., 1993. [GP2675] $125..00
THE ROSTER OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE WAR OF 1812. Dennis F. Blizzard.
Membership in the General Society of the War of 1812 is based on proof of
descent from an ancestor who rendered service in that conflict. This work,
the first complete roster of the Society of the War of 1812 ever compiled,
contains both the name of the ancestor veteran and the name of the Society
member, along with his application file number. Two specially prepared
indexes then recast this information in order to maximize its usefulness.
All extant application papers ever submitted to the Society are available on
microfilm through LDS family history centers and are keyed to the
aforementioned file numbers. The work also includes an introductory history
of the national organization, as well as accounts of local chapters and a
list of archival sources drawn on in the compilation. 241 pp., indexed.
Balto., 1989. [CC6918] Out of print $20.00
KNOWN MILITARY DEAD DURING THE WAR OF 1812. Clarence Stewart Peterson. The
War of 1812 was fought by eighteen states; the original thirteen states that
formed the Union, as well as Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and
Louisiana. In the preparation of this work, the compiler surveyed the
records of the National Archives, as well as many of the libraries and
archives of the eighteen states in which fatalities were recorded. The end
result is an authoritative list of some 3,500 known military dead of the War
of 1812. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged, give the name of
the deceased, his rank, the name of his company or branch of service, his
date of death, and an indication as to whether the individual died in battle
or as a prisoner of war. 74 pp. (1955), repr. 1997. [CC6920] $10.95
VIRGINIA & WEST VIRGINIA GENEALOGICAL DATA FROM REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION &
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORDS, VOL. 2. . Patrick G. Wardell. Genealogical data
pertaining to Virginians and West Virginians who served in the Revolutionary
War as derived from National Archives materials. It includes all men who the
records show resided in Virginia or West Virginia either before or after the
war, or whose immediate family lived in either of these two states. .
[HB5222] $33.50
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS IN ALABAMA. . Thomas M. Owen. This alphabetical list
of Alabama�s Revolutionary War soldiers, with genealogical information such
as age, place of residence, rank, line, and, in some cases, names of wives,
dates of marriage, and names of children, is the premier source-book on its
subject. 131 pp. cloth. (1911), repr. 1990. [CC4350] $16.50
KNOWN MILITARY DEAD DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, 1775-1783.
Clarence Stewart Peterson. Mr. Peterson has assembled the first complete
list of the known military dead during the American Revolution. Known
Militry Dead consists of an alphabetically arranged listing of upwards of
10,000 names, with rank, date of death, and state of birth or service or
place where buried. Also includes a bibliography of published Revolutionary
War records. 187 pp., paper. (1959), repr. 1994. [CC4580] $20.00
____________________________________________________________________
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
http://webmail.netscape.com.