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Book Reviews Eighteenth century Emigrants. Volume H. The Western Palatinate, by Annette Kunselman Burgert. Published by The Pennsylvania German Society, Birdsboro, Pennsylvania 19508. 405 pp. $45.00. This is the second of the impressive series of volumes devoted to the study of eighteenth century German emigration. The first volume documented some 624 emigrants from an area designated as the Northern Kraichgau. This volume is limited to another relatively small geographical area of the Western Palatinate and documents over 500 early settlers; making a total of over 1100 potential ancestors documented in these two works. The European data on the families presented in this volume has been compiled by Ms. Burget from microfilms of the original church books. The American documentation has been compiled from many sources which are cited throughout the text. The families, or individuals, have been listed in alphabetical order. Each family entry contains the following information: the name of the immigrant or immigrants who appear in ships' lists published in Strassburger & Hincke's Pennsylvania Pioneers, or in other emigration records, followed by the name of the ship and year of arrival. European information contains the place names, family names and statistics as they appear in the old records. The village of origin with the present day zip code is given. Following this appears the American documentation for the emmigrant family. In some cases pastors made notations in the German church records indicating that individuals had "left for Pennsylvania", or some other designation. However, for many there is not a notation. When a familiar name was found in a German church record, Ms. Burgert has checked to see if the date they disappeared from the German record coincided with the date a family appeared on the ship lists, or in Pennsylvania records. This information was carefully analyzed in connection with families who were in the same areas in Europe and America. This volume also gives much background information on the area the emigrants came from. The appendices include information from the Zweibruecken Manumissions Protocol, and information concerning Swiss origins found in the Rieschweiler parish records. A study of the people appearing in these two volumes most probably will lead to the discovery of other relationships between people in this country and Europe. The work is a monumental and scholarly task. Ms. Burgert and The Pennsylvania German Society deserve great credit for the research, and for the publication of this book on these early Pennsylvanians. Jane Adams Clarke. Coberley-Coberly-Cuberley Genealogy, 16904985. Compiled by John Bradley Arthaud, M.D. 670 pp., hard cover, 81/2" x 11" format, Available from Dr. John B. Arthaud, 3201 Woodkirk Drive, Columbia, Missouri 65203. $50,00 + $1.50 handling charge. 49 50 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine This book represents a monumental collection of information on the family of Dr. James Steil Coberly. He was born 12 February 1723, in Burlington County, New Jersey, the son of James and Mary Cubberly. He emigrated to Hampshire County, Virginia by 3 November 1772, and died ca. 1800 in Hardy County, Virginia. The author follows the lineage of each of his eight sons and one daughter, Hannah (Coberly) Dever through nine or ten generations. Early ancestral lines are carefully documented by deeds, wills, etc. Family records from living descendants are included in the later generations. Dr. Coberly's patriotic service during the Revolutionary war are included, as well as the records of succeeding generations in other conflicts. Several appendices provide interesting prior family histories; 18th century Cubberly Bible records; Huguenot ancestry of some Coberly descendants; list of Union and Confederate Coberly soldiers and material on related families: Matthews, Melton, Hire-Hyre and Watson. When it seemed that Dr. Arthaud's tome had quite exhausted the Coberly family he has issued a 48 page Supplement. This includes an index of Coberly's without a proved connection to this family, as well as those with the variant spelling Coverly. Also notes on the Groom family of New Jersey and New York. Aubrey H. Baldwin, III. The Germans. of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1783. by George F. Jones. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, 1986. 122 pp. cloth. $17.50. This publication is a list of the German-speaking inhabitants of colonial Georgia. Four groups constituted the bulk of the German population: the Salzburgers: the so-called Palatines from the southern Rhinelands; the Swabians from the Territory of Ulm and the Swiss. The names listed in this volume are in alphabetical order and have been put in their German forms for the purpose of this study, primarily a study to identify Germans for statistical purposes. Some of the works used in compiling this list are: Abstracts of Colonial Wills of the State of Georgia, 1733-1777, Cattle Brand Book; Colonial Records of the State of Georgia, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774; Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants, as well as other documents and works that are listed. Abbreviations are used to denote the information on each entry. These are listed in the front of the book as is the introduction by the author. Also included, a list of the ships with the date of their arrival. George Fenwick Jones is a professor in the German department at the University of Maryland, and the author of The Salzburger Saga, published by the University of Georgia Press in 1984. This book is an outgrowth of previous research, and should be of great interest to those seeking their German ancestors in Georgia. Jane Adams Clarke. Book Reviews 51 Genealogy as Pastime and Profession. by Donald Lines Jacobus. second edition, revised with an introduction by Milton Rubincam. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, 1986. 120 pp. paper. $7.50. First published in 1930 this popular "how-to-do-it" by Mr. Jacobus is again available by popular demand. Carefully revised by the author in 1968, this is a third reprinting of the second edition in a new format with an attractive cover photograph. Jacobus had hundreds of genealogical articles and family histories to his credit. He is looked upon as the founder of the modern American school of critical genealogists. Milton Rubincam, past president of both the American Society of Genealogists and The National Genealogical Society, states in his introduction: "Genealogy as Pastime and Profession remains the classic of our science. There is not a practitioner who would not benefit from reading it, nor a dilettante who will not enjoy it . It was written by a man who has complete mastery of his subject". Aubrey H. Baldwin, III. Quaker Records in Georgia: Wrightsborough, 1772-1793; Friendsborough, 7776-1777. compiled by Robert Scott Davis, jr. Augusta Genealogical Society, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, 1986. 278 pp. index. cloth. Order from the society, P.O. Box 3743, Augusta, Georgia 30904. $22.00 + $2.00 handling. An important contribution to Quaker genealogy is afforded by Robert Davis' documentary account of the Monthly Meeting at Wrightsborough, the southermost bastion of the Society of Friends. His book also clarifies and sheds new light on the history of both Wrightsborough town and township, in the present Columbia County. A definitive account of the last Georgia colony, and of the Friendsborough settlement established by William Manson. Wrightsborough township was settled in 1767 by some forty families of Orange County, North Carolina, led by Quakers, Joseph Maddock and Jonathan Sell. Many of the Quaker families in this migration moved as a group from New Castle County, Delaware and Chester County, Pennsylvania to North Carolina in 1754-55. The Georgia community was thereafter joined by a number of Friends from Bradford, Concord, Goshen, Kennett, New Garden, Radnor, Uwchlan and Wilmington Monthly Meetings who came directly to Georgia after 1772. Other Friends from Indian Spring, Monthly Meeting in Maryland; Cedar Creek, Fairfax, Goose Creek and Hopewell Meetings in Virginia. Cane Creek, Center, Deep River, New Garden and Springfield Meetings in North Carolina and Bush River Meeting in South Carolina are listed in the Wrightsborough records. This is an excellent work, the index affords ready reference to more than 1500 names. Aubrey. H. Baldwin, 52 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825, by David Dobson. Vol. VI. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986) 126 pp. $17.50. Based on documents found in British archives and on Scottish records Mr. Dobson has to date published six volumes relating to these early settlers. This new work is based on abstracts of all documents pertaining to North America recorded in the Edinburgh Register of Deeds between 1750 and 1825. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order and cover a variety of situations. It is unfortunate that the publishers have not included a name index since many of the entries contain various names and their relationships. The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851. Ira A. Glazier, Editor & Michael Tepper, Associate Editor. Volume VII, April 1851-December 1851. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986) 1195 pp. index. $45.00. This is the final volume in this series and offers an in-depth analysis of the 651,931 Irish who immigrated to New York between 1846 and 1851. It is an awesome presentation. The reviewer wishes she had an Irish ancestor who might be discovered in these pages. One would learn his age, occupation and those of other family members, as well as the ship they traveled on, the port of embarkation and date of arrival in New York. As an example we can learn about Thomas Conaghey, age 47, a farmer, who came on the ship Constitution, from Liverpool, 25 August 1851, with his wife Mary, age 35, a servant; children: Catherine, age 14, a servant; Mary, age 12, a servant; Judy, age 8; Thomas, age 4; Bridget, age 6; Pat, age 3 and Margaret, age 4 months. What a brave undertaking, one hopes things worked out well for them in the new land. German Immigrants: List of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1855-1862, with Places of Origin. compiled by Gary J. Zimmerman & Marion Wolfert. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986) 167 pp. $20.00. Bremen, Germany was a very important port of embarkation, during the period covered by this book 225,000 emigrants left via Bremen. This is a partial reconstruction of the passenger lists many of which have been destroyed over the years. The lists are alphabetically arranged giving the passenger's name, age, place of residence, the date of arrival, the passenger list number, the name of the ship and the call number of the National Archives' microfilm. A typical entry is as follows: Beierlieb, Johann 60 Lustberg 61-1640. Translated this means that the 60 year old Johann Beierleib arrived in New York in 1861 and appears on list 1640 for that year. The table of references, under 61-1640 gives Norma 10 Nov. 1861 107, which indicates that Johann Beierlieb was on the ship Aroma which arrived in New York 10 November 1861. The original list can be found on microfilm roll 107. Book Reviews 53 Genealogies of Long Island Families, from The New York Genealogical Cy' Biographical Record. Selected and Introduced by Henry B. Hoff. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987) Vol. 1, Albertson to Polhemius. index. 787 pp. Vol. II, Praa to Youngs. index. 812 pp. $90.00 set. This collection contains articles by many famous genealogists. The first volume covers the families of Albertson, Antonides, Bedell, Bennet, Booth, Browne, Brush, Buys, Clowes, Corey, Cornel, Cornelius, de Silk, Doughty, Duercant, Duryea, Edwards, Feake, Fonteyn, Fordham, Gaston, Gerritsen, Griffin, Hallock, Harcourt, Hardenbergh, Hawxhurst, Howell, King, Landon, Lotting, Lawrence, Lefferts, Ludlum, Lupardus, Hortense, McCoun, Monfoort, Nevius and Polhemius. The second volume covers the families of Praa, Raynor, Riker, Rogers, Scherlch, two Smiths, Stites, Suydam-Rycke, Terhune, Thompson, Thorne, Titus, Tredwell, Tuthill, Valentine, Van Beyeren, Van Brunt, Van Cott, Van Kouwenhoven, Vanderveer, Van Duyn, Van Enden, Van Lodensteyn, Van Wijck, Whitehead, Wiggins, Wine, Wiilets, Willis and Youngs. The articles were printed during a long span of this famous publication from 1880 to 1985. A Bibliography of American County Histories, compiled by P. William Filby. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985) $24.95 + $1.25. This is a long needed comprehensive list of over 5,000 American County Histories. State by state listings of all county histories of any significance, giving information concerning title, author, and place and date of publications, as well as details of editions, reprints, and indexes. Both professional and fledgling genealogists will find this a useful tool in research. Ear?), Ohio Settlers.- Purchasers of Land in Southeastern Ohio, 18004840, by Ellen T. & David A. Berry. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985) 129 pp. maps. $15,00 ÷ $1.25. The book covers the sale of land by the Marietta, Ohio Land Office, covering what are now twelve present day counties. The information given includes names of the purchasers in alphabetical order, date of purchase, place of residence at time of purchase, and the range, township, and section of the purchased land. It makes it possible to pinpoint the exact location of one's ancestor's land. Early Ohio Settlers: Purchasers of Land in Southwestern Ohio, 1880-1840. by Ellen T. & David A. Berry. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986) 372 pp. maps. $25.00 + $1.25. Similar in format this book is the companion to the volume reviewed above. Here are listed the sales from the Cincinnati Land Office, covering not only southwestern Ohio but parts of eastern and southeastern Indiana. 54 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Ohio Marriages: Extracted from The Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly. edited by Marjorie Smith. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1986) 350 pp. $17.50. Fifteen volumes of The Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly were published from 1898 to 1912. From many different records published, all marriage records have been extracted. Each marriage has two entries: under groom's surname and bride's maiden name, as well as the person who conducted the marriage and location, and the date of marriage. Pennsylvania Genealogical Research, by George K. Schweitzer, (printed by the author, 407 Regent Court, Knoxville, Tennessee 37923) 1986. paper. 227 pp. maps. $9.00 from the author. Dr. Schweitzer begins with a unique explanation of the geography of Pennsylvania and the early settlement of the state. He also discusses the effect of wars and economics on the development of the state. Another section enumerates various types of records available for genealogical research, giving their locations. The final section is a county-by-county listing of all available records and their locations. The book should be a particular help to the researcher living in states other than Pennsylvania since it does present a clear picture of what is available. Pennsylvania and Middle Atlantic Stales Genealogical Manuscripts, A User's Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Genealogical Soceity of Pennsylvania. As Indexed in Its Manuscript Materials Index. Microfilmed by the Genealogical Department, Salt Lake Ciy. compiled by J. Carlyle Parker. paper. 45 pp. index. $14.95 (from Marietta Publishing Co., 2115 North Denair Ave., Turlock, California 95380). Essentially this is a guide to the 988 reels of microfilm in the Genealogical Department Library at Salt Lake City, giving both the "shelf number" of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania collection and the microfilm number of the, Salt Lake City collection. Lucerne County, Pennsylvania Directory of Genealogical Records. by TAD (The Ancestor Detective), Donna K. Clark. (Ancestor Publishers, 1986) paper. 102 pp. $10.20 + $1.30 postage from Ancestor Publishers, P.O. Box 682 RE-19, Arvada, Colorado 80001. This book follows TAD's system of topic numbers to be used for research in The Genealogical Society of Utah and the Latter-Day Saints branch libraries. It enables a person to order by mail from these sources any wishedfor records as listed in this publication, giving the procedure and costs. Ohio State Directory of Genealogical Records. by TAD (The Ancestor Detective), Donna K. Clark. (Ancestor Publishers, 1986) paper. 142 pp. $15.00 + $2.00 postage from Ancestor Publishers, P.O. Box 682 Arvada, Colorado 80001. The book follows the same format as the book listed above. Book Reviews 55 A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland. by Briam Mitchell. (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986) maps. 123 pp. $18.95. The book provides excellent help in narrowing the search for civil and ecclesiastical records that would apply to a genealogical investigation in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. Many easily readable maps outline the provincial boundries, the counties, the ecclesiastical provincial boundries, the probate districts, the civil parishes, the baronies and the poor law unions of all the counties of Ireland. When the material is used in conjunction with the General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland by Alexander Thom (Dublin, 1861) (reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984) a searcher would be well on the way to determining the records available for ancestral investigation. Philip B. Woodroofe. Genealogical Research Directory: National & International, 1986. & Guide to Genealogical Societies. by Keith A. Johnson & Malcolm R. Sainty. 784 pp. (available from Mrs. Netti Schreiner-Vanyis, 6818 Lois Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22150.) paperback. $17.75. hard cover, $22.25. Beginning with an article "When You Travel in Germany" giving general information for tourists and archive sources. A Directory of Genealogical Societies. These are located in countries all over the world. However, the bulk of the book consists of a Directory This lists in alphabetical order the family name being researched, the time period and place. The reader is then referred to the name and address of a "contributor", a person having data on this family who will exchange information. Buyers of the book are entitled to place up to 15 entries at no charge in the next edition of the book. The list of Contributors is keyed to the Directory by a numbering system. Only trial and error can prove the worthiness of this volume. The 1987 edition of this publication has just been received. A New Publication Middlesex (Connecticut) Genealogical Sociey, Publication Na. 1., 1986. Middlesex Genealogical Society, 45 Old Kings Highway, Darien, Connecticut 06820. Two of the major articles in this issue were written by "our-own" Doris W. Hollander, a long-time member of the Board of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, and now a resident of Connecticut and Vice-President of the Middlesex Society. Her articles are: "Mustered Into Service", an account of Connecticut Volunteers in the Civil War, and "Spring Grove Cemetery Records", a full list of all the veterans buried in this Darien, Connecticut cemetery, giving their rank, service and age at death. The list has veterans of the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, and World War 1. and II.