Ancestry.com has both the volumes. I never knew they were there!
I don't know the subscription level that gains you access to them but it wouldn't
hurt to check with your local library to see if they have a Library subscription and if
this is one of the available databases in a library subscription.
Check, too, with your local FHC to see if they have a Library subscription. The last time
I was down to the Warwick FHC....couple of yrs ago now....they had a Library
subscription.
A good & bad thing that was/is......good for when there was no one there who had a
personal Ancestry subscription and someone still wanted access to Ancestry. But, once
the new director came on board - bad since many useful databases weren't in the
Library subscription version and those of us with personal subscriptions were blocked from
logging in on our subscriptions whether our purpose was for our own use or to help out
another researcher. I forget the then new director's background but given some of
the changes he made, I sometimes think he might have shared the gene pool with he who
shall not be named here.
I can access these volumes from my Ancestry subscription so can do look-ups.
Here's what is in each volume:
Vol 1:
Title Page ~~ Introduction ~~ A Bibliography of 100 Colonial Rhode Island Families ~~
List of Sources ~~ Record of Mrs. Susannah Alden / Ralph Allen of Newport, R. I. and
Some of His N.J. Descendants ~~ Almy Family Records / Amsbury Bible Genealogy of the
Anthonys of New England ~~ Mr. Somerby's Genealogy of the Arnold Family
Descendants of Gov. Benedict Arnold, Through his Great-Grandson, Gen. Benedict Arnold ~~
The Will of John Banister of Newport, R. I. ~~ Banister ~~ Barton of Warwick, R. I. /
William Rushton Bensley and Family ~~ Roger Billings of Milton, Mass., and Some of His
Descendants [and] William Billings of Providence, R. I. ~~ Bowen-Wade Bible Records ~~
Bracy ~~ Captain Gershom Bradford and Some of His Descendants ~~ Other Descendants of
Captain Gershom Bradford ~~ Brown-Hall Bible Records ~~ Chad Browne of Providence, R.
I., and Four Generations of His
Descendants ~~ Mary, Second Wife of Jeremiah Brown (Chad) of Newport, R. I. ~~ Clues to
the Possible Identity of Mary, Second Wife of Jeremiah Brown (Chad) of Newport, R. I. ~~
Brownell / Stephen Burton of Bristol, R. I., and Some of His Descendants ~~ The Card
Family ~~ The Carr Ancestry of Richmond Carr of Portsmouth, R. I. ~~ Carver Genealogy:
Additions ~~ Two Case Bible Records ~~ Two Seth Chapins ~~ Some of the Descendants of
William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth, Mass. ~~ Descendants of William Chase: Additions
and Corrections ~~ The Clarke Family Christopher Clarke of Westerly, R. I., and Some of
His Descendants ~~ Thomas Clarke, 1778-1860, of Newport and Hopkinton, R. I., and Some of
His Descendants ~~ Parentage of John Cole of Boston, Mass., and Rhode Island ~~
Catherine, Wife of Walter Cooke of Mendon ~~ Corey-Hamilton Note ~~ Cornell Family ~~
Descendants of Gov. John Cranston of Rhode Island ~~ The Second Wife of
Gov. Samuel Cranston of Rhode Island ~~ Cranston and Coggeshall: Corrections Descendants
of Robert Dennis of Portsmouth, R. I. ~~ The Dickens Family ~~ Alexander Duncan
(1805-1889) of Scotland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and England ~~ Patience
Earle of Perquimans County, N. C. ~~ The Children and Grandchildren of Thomas Eastabrooks
of Swansea, Mass. ~~ Nicholas Easton ~~ The Bristol Branch of the Finney Family ~~
Bible Records - Franklin ~~ Philip Gavet of Salem, Mass., and Some of His Descendants ~~
Philip Gereardy of New Amsterdam, Landlord of the City Tavern and His R. I. Descendants
~~ Gibbs Records from a Ginnedo-Morey Bible ~~ Notes on the Providence Line of the Gorham
Family ~~ Gray-Ide Bible Records ~~ The Grays of Killingworth and Tiverton ~~ Notices
of the Greene Family ~~ Henry Hall of Westerly, R. I., His Parentage, and Some of His
Descendants ~~ Harris Bible Records ~~ Hartshorn Bible
Records ~~ Hastings Family Records ~~ Four Generations of Descendants of Jeremiah
Hathaway of Coventry, Rhode Island ~~ The Story of Jane Hawkins ~~ Records of Oliver
Hazard ~~ Hoar-Lawton-Southworth and Connections ~~ Holden-Wells-Low-Green Bible Record
~~ Elizabeth Holder, Daughter of Christopher Holder ~~ Parentage of Caleb Howland of
Clarendon, Vt. ~~ Howland / Caleb Howland's Parentage Reaffirmed ~~ Samuel Howland of
Dutchess County, New York and His Children ~~ A Brief Genealogy of the Hutchinson Family
~~ The Hutchinson and Sandford Families ~~ Hutchinson ~~ James Family Notes / James
Bible Records ~~ The Parents and Some Descendants of William James, Blacksmith, of
Westerly, R I. ~~ John Jones ~~ The Early Knights of Rhode Island ~~ Henry Knowles of
Rhode Island and Some of His Descendants ~~ Langley of Newport, R. I. ~~ Langley Sebray
Lawton's Bible Record ~~ Thomas Lillibridge of Newport, R. I.,
and His Descendants ~~ The Lippitt Family of Rhode Island ~~ The Littlefield Family ~~
Thomas Mallett, of Newport, R. I. / A Hypothesis About Ann Manchester, Wife of Joseph
Woodworth ~~ The Manchester Family of Rhode Island ~~ The Manchester Family of Rhode
Island: Additional Data ~~ The Manchester Family of Rhode Island: Correction ~~ The
Manchester Family of Rhode Island: Additions / Manchester Family - Additional Data ~~ The
Mitchell Family Mosher Bible Records / Nathaniel Mott of Scituate and His Sons ~~ A
Boston Quaker [Moulder] ~~ Mowry: A Unique Family Monument ~~ Index to This Section
Voulme 2:
Title Page ~~ List of Sources ~~ John Niles of Braintree, Mass., and Some of His
Descendants ~~ Carr Northrup of North Kingston, R. I., and Some of His Descendants ~~
The Papillons of Boston and Bristol ~~ The Payne or Paine Family ~~ Payne or Paine of
Block Island / Further Information About the Family of John Peabody (1612-1687) ~~ John
Peckham of Newport, R. I., and Some of His Descendants ~~ Poore / Price Records ~~
Prince-Wood and Brenton Bible Records ~~ Rathbun Bible Records ~~ Rathbun ~~ Collateral
Descendants of Capt. John Peck Rathbun ~~ The Ray Family ~~ The Children of Zachariah
Rhodes (1676-1761) ~~ The Rogers Family of Newport, R. I., and Middletown, Conn. ~~ The
Rosbothams of Bristol, R. I. ~~ Salisbury Family Record / Notes on the Sanford Family of
Portsmouth, R. I. ~~ Sanford-Stratton ~~ William Sanford of Rhode Island - A
Hypothetical Genealogy ~~ President John Sanford of Portsmouth, R. I., and
His Family ~~ The Will of President John Sanford ~~ Ezbon Sanford ~~ The Children of
Capt. Ezbon Sanford (Samuel, President John) of Portsmouth, R. I. ~~ Saunders-Peckham ~~
Sayles Family: Corrections ~~ Scott and White ~~ Richard Scott and His Wife Catharine
Marbury, and Some of Their Descendants ~~ Ancestry of Jeremiah Scott, the Husband of
Rebecca Jenckes ~~ One Branch of the Rhode Island Sheffields ~~ The Probable Identity of
Penelope, Wife of Nicholas Sheldon of Cranston, Rhode Island ~~ John Shepard of Canton,
Mass., and North Providence (Pawtucket), R. I., Son of Nathaniel Shepard ~~ The Sherman
Family ~~ Sherman ~~ A Branch of the Sherman Family ~~ Sherman: A Correction ~~ Jacob
Sherman's Copy-Book, with Genealogical Notes ~~ The Slocum Genealogy ~~ The Smith
Family of Walpole, Mass. ~~ Smith Family Records ~~ The Brothers Ralph and William
Sprague and Some of Their Descendants ~~ Parentage of Archibald
Sprague of Newburyport, Mass. ~~ The Identity of Thomas Stafford of Rutland County,
Vermont ~~ Stevens / The Strang or Strange Family ~~ Ancestry of Lydia Strengthfield ~~
Tallman ~~ John Turner of Lynn, Mass., and Some of His Descendants ~~
Turner-Godfrey-Woodward-Cobb ~~ The Vernon Family and Arms ~~ Viall Family Record ~~
Sir Charles Wager and Capt. John Hull ~~ Sir Charles Wager ~~ Thomas Waite of
Portsmouth, R. I., and Some of His Descendants ~~ When Waits Became Wrights ~~ Waldron
Correction ~~ Wayte-Wood / Robert Weatley ~~ Westcott-Lewis ~~ Martha Westcott's
Husband ~~ Descendants of Capt. John Whipple, of Providence, R. I. ~~ Commodore Abraham
Whipple's Father Identified ~~ Whipple Bible Records ~~ Mayflower Ancestry of the
Descendants of Daniel Wilcox, of Portsmouth, R. I / Wilson-Rouse ~~ Early Settlers of
Block Island, R. I. ~~ Some Notes on Block Islanders of the Seventeenth Century ~~ Some
Notes on Eighteenth Century Block Island ~~ Two Block Island Documents ~~ Bristol
Records. List of Baptisms from the Records of the Church of Christ at Bristol ~~ Bristol
Records ~~ Bristol Tax List, 1695 ~~ Census of Bristol in Plymouth Colony, Now in Rhode
Island, 1689 ~~ The Rev. Warren Emerson's Marriage Records ~~ Rev. Cyrus Hyde
Fay's Record of Marriages, 1840-1901 ~~ Notes from the Diary of Elisha Fish,
1785-1804 ~~ Will of John Green of Warwick, R. I. ~~ Cemetery Inscriptions in Little
Compton, R. I. ~~ Manuscript Genealogies in the Library of the Rhode Island Historical
Society ~~ Abstracts of Wills. Probate Records of the Town of Middletown, R. I. ~~
Newport (R.I.) Church Records ~~ Deaths in Newport, R. I., 1760-1764 ~~ Births and
Deaths in Newport, R. I., 1760-1764 ~~ Early Marriages in Newport, R. I., from
Friends' Record ~~ Records of the Rev. Nat Clapp of the First Congregational Church,
Newport, R.
I. ~~ The Sons and Daughters of Newport ~~ North Kingstown Inscriptions in Family Burial
Grounds at North Kingstown and Exeter, R. I. ~~ Items from Day Books of Hon. Esbon
Sanford of North Kingston, R. I., 1798-1833 ~~ Letter Relative to Petaquompscot Purchase
in Rhode Island ~~ From Friends' Records of Portsmouth in Newport Historical Society.
Testamonies, 1718 to 1799 ~~ Inscriptions from Portsmouth, R. I. / Some Revolutionary
Soldiers and Their Heirs ~~ Vacancies in the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati ~~
Some Early Marriages Recorded at South Kingstown, R. I. Taxes Under Gov. Andros Cemetery
Inscriptions in Tiverton, R. I. ~~ From the Records of Constant Hart of Tiverton, R.I.
~~ Roll of Captain Topham's Company, 1775 ~~ Inscriptions in Kickemuit Cemetery,
Warren, R. I. ~~ Notes from the Warren, R.I. Probate Records ~~ Burials at Warren and
Barrington, R. I. ~~ Marriages Recorded in Warwick, R.I., in Book of
Marriages, No. 1 ~~ Early Settlers of Westerly, Rhode Island Extracts from the
Presbyterian Church Records of Westerly, R. I. ~~ Elder Wight's Marriages ~~ Roger
Williams, Gorton, Blackstone, Angel, Harris, Newman, and Others ~~ Index to This Section
I hope I got all the breaks in the right places & it makes sense. Yup, lazily did a
cut & paste for ease so naturally the whole darn thing smushed together!
Linda
--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Herb Abrams <hvabrams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Herb Abrams <hvabrams(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [RI] Genealogies of Rhode Island Families
To: RIGENWEB(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 1:19 PM
If anyone is interested, there is a two volume set of the book
"Genealogies of Rhode Island Families" on Ebay. Check it out at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Genealogies-Rhode-Island-Families-/290464963353?pt=LH...
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