Book Reviews

Book Reviews By Val D. Greenwood. Introduction by Milton Rubincam. (Baltimorel Genealogical Publishing Co-, 1973. 505 p. Illustrations, index. $10.00.) The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. It has been stated by current statisticians that the most popular hobby in this country is stamp-collecting; and running a close second is genealogy. This is believable in light of the blizzard of recent books, articles and pamphlets relating to the study of genealogy. Many of them are repetitive; many treat the subject with painful superficiality. Mr. Greenwood approaches genealogy as a science which a genealogist must learn and to which he most apply specific principles once he has learned them. His is a sound approach. This is not a book for "dabblers" in genealogy. It is, rather, an extremely detailed and painstaking compilation of the multi-elements of genealogical research. For the most part, the text is concerned with the detail of American records, with one chapter on Canadian research, allowing that Americans and Canadians often interchanged their countries of residence. For those who long to attend a "Course in Genealogical Methods" but are unable to do so, this book provides all the ingredients usually covered in such courses, with the exception of personal tours and the idiosyncracies of local records. Like a good scientist himself, Mr. Greenwood has put his book together in a systematic manner. Part One deals largely with "you," the reader, searcher and scholar. He makes a strong point of the fact that, unlike the "dabbler," the serious student of genealogy must be prepared to contribute to his goal a great deal of hard work and patience and creative intelligence. There are exciting rewards, of course — no study can be maintained indefinitely without them — but they seldom come easily. In his chapter on "Analyzing the Pedigree and the Place," the author shows his expertise by relaying the "thinking procedures" of genealogy in a lucid and careful manner. In a class of 40 or 50 students, much of this information can be lost for a lack of repetition of the fine points. With this work at hand, a student may repeat his reading until he clearly understands all of the fine points. The same advantage can be found in the chapter on "Organizing and Evaluating Research Findings." Successful correspondence is an area in which most amateur genealogists are negligent and, in their careless and self-centered haste, often alienate the very people whom they most need. For those who do a great deal of their research by correspondence, Mr. Greenwood's illustration of a "correspondence calendar" is a valuable research . aid. Part II of this work leaves the subject of you, as the researcher, and applies itself objectively to "Records and Their Use." In the chapter on compiled sources and newspapers, it came as a surprise to this reviewer that, among the list of genealogical periodicals, a notable omission was that of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, long considered an outstanding example of the more scholarly and reliable journals in this field. In leading up to the importance of documentation from primary source material, Mr. Greenwood laments the fact that far too many pseudo-genealogists never set foot in a courthouse. "Their research begins and ends in a library," he states correctly. Although he warns the reader ". .. not to become so obsessed with negatives [in compiled sources) that you overlook the good points," he is also concerned that the corn203 204 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine piled material which represents merely errors copied from errors is reaching an alarming bulk of useless information in our libraries. The main body of this work is directed to the use and interpretation of the everimportant primary source material for documentation. Vital records, probates, land records of all types, census returns, court records, church and cemetery records, military returns and immigration records are all covered in the finest detail, in more than 350 pages of information and charts. Of particular value are the instructions for abstract' ing land and probate records, with illustrative models. Church records are handled by denomination, and the examples given have a geographic scope which is helpful — Maine, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, etc. Also included is a partial list of depositories of church records by states and denominations. The study of military records spans the period of the Colonial Wars and the Revolution up to and including the Civil War. Also discussed are the military records of those who served in the armed forces during peaceful times — an area of research often overlooked. Immigration and naturalization records are discussed in the chapter on "Finding the Home of the Immigrant Ancestor," which includes ships' passenger lists, immigration passenger manifestos from 1883, customs lists of aliens, etc. In this—at in most chapters — a helpful bibliography of more detailed sources is included. ValDavid Greenwood spent six years in this effort to produce a single comprehensiiie text book of American genealogical records. His effort has been most successful. His background includes several years as an instructor at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, and he has taught special courses and seminars at Brigham Young University. As a teacher of genealogy at a college credit level, he has now made available, at this high level, a new dimension of study for the serious genealogist. DOROTHEE HUGHES CAROUSSO By Thomas A. DeLong. Introduction by Elizabeth L. White. (Southport, Coon.. Sasco Associates, 1972. 203 p. $9.95.) The DeLongs of New York and Brooklyn: A Huguenot Family Fussily Portrait. The family of DeLong is known in Pennsylvania as a widespread Pennsylvania German clan of Berks and Lehigh Counties which produced a great many Reformed clergymen, and also is commemorated in the DeLong Reformed (now United) Church at Bowers near Kutztown. In the wider American context the name DeLong is known principally through the career of the Arctic explorer George Washington DeLong (1844-1882), a native of New York City whose pioneering voyages in the Arctic are commemorated in the names of many natural features in the area and in the town of DeLong in Illinois. These two seemingly disparate facts are connected, as follows. It appears that in the 1820's, when many Berks Gountians were joining the westward trek into the Midwest, four DeLong brothers moved instead to New York City and Brooklyn, where they established themselves in business, joined Presbyterian, Episcopalian, and other AngloAmerican churches, and in a sense founded dynasties. The last of the four brothers to settle in New York, Levi DeLong (1819-1866), was the father of Lt. Commander G. W. DeLong. Strangely enough, the eastward trek of the DeLong brothers had been preceded in 1738 by the westward trek of their great-grandfather, Pyeter DeLangh, who brought his German-born wife, Eva Elisabeth Weber, and his family of nine children to Berks 205 Book Reviews County, where they settled in Maxatawny Township at the place now called Bowers where the DeLong's Reformed Church stands today. The wife was the daughter of Jacob Weber, Palatine settler of Newburgh, New York, trustee of the Lutheran congregation there, and a member of the so-called Kocherthal emigrant party of 1708. The background of Pyeter DeLangh is unfortunately unknown. The book gives various theories, finally deciding on Huguenot background. It is of course not known whether Pyeter DeLangh was born in Europe or America. The Huguenot theory of the Pennsylvania DeLong origins was long contested by Dr. Irwin Hoch DeLong, professor at the Reformed Theological Seminary in Lancaster, who maintained, in a series of well-researched articles and monographs, that, despite the present "French" form of their name (DeLong), they were not French but Holland Dutch, where the name (originally spelled DeLangh) is similar to Debug and other descriptive Netherlandic family names. While the Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania has always claimed the DeLong clan as properly Huguenot, the question is, in my opinion, still open, and more research will have to be done before the background of Pennsylvania's Pyeter DeLangh can be definitively demonstrated. There were DeLangh families in the Hudson Valley among the Dutch settlers from the middle of the 17th Century. There were also other DeLangh settlers who made the trek, probably over the "Old Mine Road" from Esopus (the present Kingston, N.Y.) to the Minisinks, into the Pennsylvania German country of Southeastern Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th Century — among them Abraham, Lucas, and Edward DeLangh of the so-called "Albany Eck" on the edge of Berke and Lehigh Counties. How were these all related? The book suggests that Abraham DeLangh was the younger brother of Pyeter but offers no documentation for this statement. For those who wish to check the thoroughly documented monographs of Professor DeLong of Lancaster, only the first and sixth of which are referred to in the book under review, they are as follows: ( I) "Jacob Jansen van Ellen, 1663 — Otherwise Known as Jacob Jansen DeLange," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, LIII (1922); (2) "DeLong. A Correction," Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, VIII (1922)e (3) "Genealogical Gleanings from Different Sources (Pa.)," National Genealogical Society Quarterly, XII (1923); (4) "A Legal Document of Historical and Ecclesiastical Interest," Reformed Church Messenger, August 16, 1923; (5) "Early Occurrences of the Family Name DeLong in Europe and in America," The Reformed Church Review, III (1924); (6) The Lineage of Malcom Metzger Parker from Johannes DeLang (Lancaster, Pa.: The Art_Printing Co., 1926); and (7) Pioneer Palatine Pilgrims (Lancaster, Pa.: The Art Printing Co., 1928). While the book concentrates on the Berks County emigre DeLongs of New York and Brooklyn, with an excellent summary chapter on the accomplishments of their most distinguished scion, the arctic explorer, there is an additional chapter on other branches of the family and scattered bearers of the name here and there — what Irwin Hoch DeLong used to refer to as "Unconnected DeLongs." Connected or unconnected, Huguenot or Germanic, Pennsylvania genealogists will find this book a valuable contribution to Pennsylvania German genealogy. The author has used family documents, letters and reminiscences to construct vivid portraits of a fascinating family, which ramifies now into many states of the union, including among its descendants many distinguished doctors, inventors, publishers, railroad developers, naval architects, textile importers, and manufacturers of many products from sportswear to the DeLong Hook and Eye (Invented by a Montour County DeLong descended from Pyeter by a route other than that via New York or Brooklyn). DON YODER 206 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Some of the First Settlers of The Forks of the Delaware and Their Descendants Being a Translation from the German of the Record Book of the First Reformed Church of Easton, Penna. from 1760 to 1852 Together with an Historical Introduction. Translated and published by the Rev. Henry Martyn Kieffer, D.D. [Reprint of the Easton edition, 1902.1 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973. 404 p. Illustrations. $14.00.) According to the Prefatory Note, the present church building was erected in 1776, and for nearly half a century thereafter was "the only church building in town." Its records are complete (except for brief periods between pastors), and for the early period reflect a significant cross section of the population not only of Easton but also of the surrounding area, including present day Phillipsburg across the Delaware River in New Jersey. The records are preceded by valuable introductory chapters, mainly historical. Rev. Kieffer describes the church books, and the difficulties of deciphering them because of a "handwriting occasionally crabbed even to provocation." Services were held in German until 1833, when English became the principal language; German was not entirely discontinued until 1871. Valuable as this reprint is, one could wish that the publisher had added an Index, especially considering the price. A reprint also offers an opportunity (here ignored) for a special introduction mentioning some of the misprints and errors in the original edition, and showing the need for caution in accepting the rendering of names in the records. As just one example of the need for care: the marriages of the brothers John and Eseck Howell to the sisters Mary and Magdalena ceasser are rendered "John Haul and Mary Giser" (p. 345) and "Eseck Howell with Mon Dearer" (p. 347). With these reservations, the reprint is highly recommended to anyone interested in Northampton County and the nearby New Jersey area. EFFINGHAM P. HUMPHREY, JR. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Deed Abstracts & Revolutionary War Oaths of Allegiance- Revised and Enlarged Edition. Deed Books 'A' through 'M', 1729 through cal770 with Adjoining Landowners & Witnesses. Compiled by R. Thomas Mayhill. (1973. viii, 283 p. Photo, maps, addenda, appendix, index. Available from The Bookmark, P.O. Box 74, Knig,htstown, IN 46148. $22.50.) As the title indicates, all deeds are abstracted, and names of neighbors and witnesses are given with the partie§ to the deed. Since many deeds were apparently never recorded, the names of the adjoining landowners may often be the only record of them. The oafils of allegiance cover the period 1778-86, and include the recently discovered Revolutionary War Oaths, The compiler gives careful explanations of all terms used, and includes the many variations of surnames. All names are listed in the excellent and comprehensive index, which has over 50,000 references., This edition becomes the indispensable tool for all genealogical research in Lancaster County in the mid-I8th century; it cannot be too highly recommended. EFFINGHAM P. HUMPHREY* JR. Book Reviews 207 Compiled by Albert H. Swing and Harry P. Swing. (Privately printed, 1961. xxx, 235. Illustrations, appendix, index. $10.00) The First Five Generations of the Swing Family in America. The compilers trace their ancestry back to ;lean Martin Schwing (son of Hans Martin Schwing of Strassburg, Alsace), who married Salome Schmidt of Bischweiler in 1716. Of their ten children, four came to America, and the descent of three is traced: Michael (1722-82), who arrived in Philadelphia in 1741 and settled in York; Salome (1729-1793), who married Jacob Rummel and Johann George Gump, and also settled in York; and Samuel (1732-1801), who settled in Pittsgrove, Salem Co., N.J. By the second generation, Swings were located also in Kentucky and Ohicr The material is presented in outline form, with some biographical material in interesting narrative form, but little documentation. Almost seven hundred persons are so included, plus biographies of five Swings of the sixth generation, ending with Ray' mond Gram Swing, the noted radio, commentator of a generation ago. The compilers, who depended on cousinly cooperation, were unable to complete many of the lines; for example, the line of Salome does not extend beyond her three known (of a total of six) children. Copies of this worthwhile "family style" genealogy are available from Mr. Harry IN Swing, Mack Road, R.D. 1, East Greenville, PA 18041EFFINGHAM P. HUMPHREY, JR. New Jersey in 1793. An abstract and index to the 1793 Militia Census of the State of New Jersey. By James S. Norton. Introduction by Kenneth W. Richards. (Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, Inc., 1973. xxxviii, 515 p- Maps, facsunibes, illustrations, appendices, index. $21.75.) This volume, containing the names of over 30,000 New Jersey men resident in the counties in 1793, will go a long way toward filling the gap left by the destruction of the 1790 New Jersey Census. listing as it does in the main body of the book, the names of all males between the ages of 18 and 45 capable of bearing arms. These lists are preceded by two facsimilies of the 1792 Act for organizing and training the New Jersey militia, one of the original manuscript and the other of the published version and its supplements. These are followed by a facsimile of "Brigade Orders" of 26 August 1793, and one of "Detachment Orders," of 5 September 1794. Then comes a transcript of "Description of Military Uniform," dated 6 July 1793, and of "General Orders of 15 October 1793. The lists themselves are . arranged by counties, and within each county by _townships. Each township list is in two parts. The first part lists the able-bodied citizens between the ages of 18 and 45 "enrolled and deemed a part of the militia," the second part lists those who "desire to be exempt from Military duly", Officers of the militia companies, and the arrangement of the companies into battalions and regiments are given for some of the counties, notably Burlington, Cumberland, Hunterdon and Monmouth. Ages are given only on the Middlesex County lists. Since no militia lists for Bergen, Cape May. Salem or Somerset Counties have been found, the lists of rateables in 1793 for these counties have been appended. Only the names of the rateables are given, however, acreage, livestock* etc., being omitted. Mr. Norton has transcribed these records faithfully, page for page) as they appear in the originals. But since the papers on which the original lists were written varied in size, in this volume the printed lists follow the original lists page for page. As I 208 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine result the text on many pages covers only part of the page. In these days of shortages, it seems to this reviewer that it should have been possible to print the lists for each township in such a manner as to indicate what was on each of the original pages, thereby reducing the size — and the cost — of the present volume. It would also have been helpful for non-Jerseyites if a running head — perhaps in brackets at the top of each page indicated the county, as well as the township, when they did not appear in the original. It would have saved a lot of shuffling back and forth to locate the precise geographical area to which the militia man or exempt belonged. The book is embellished with two handsome full color reproductions facing each other as a double frontispiece. The left-hand one is a reproduction of Samuel Lewis's eighteenth century map of "The State of New Jersey" which was "Engraved for Carey's American edition of Guthries Geography improved." Facing this in full color is a reproduction of John Collett's "The Recruiting Serjeant." A modern map of New Jersey appears as the front end-paper, facing which is a modern listing of New Jersey towns and their 1970 population. A 75-page computerized index completes the volume. All in all, genealogists and historians should be grateful to Mr. Norton for his five-year dedication to the preparation of this work. HANNAH BENNER ROACH Hopewell Valley Heritage. By Alice Blackwell Lewis. (Hopewell, N.J. The Hopewell Museum, 1973. xvi, 319 p. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $10.00.) Mrs.. Lewis, Curator of the Hopewell Museum, Hopewell, N.J., has written an Informal history of the area, building ber narrative around the early settlers (many from Long Island) and including many interesting anecdotes. She points out that this area was in Burlington County until 1713 or 1714, then in Hunterdon County, and from 1838 on in Mercer County. Many familiar stories are here — from the naming of Hopewell by Andrew Smith In 1680 and the romantic saga of Penelope Stout, to accounts of prominent citizens of the 19th century: Chapters on a number of local families are included, with genealogical details' Armitage, Anderson, Muirhead, Hunt, "Finis, Cornell, Burt, Reed and Pierson. among others. Because of Hopewell's position across the Delaware from Bucks County, a number of marriages took place with Pennsylvanians, and many descendants moved to this state. The author's affection for this area shines through her narrative, which gives a valuable sense of place as well as of time to the families, from many of which she is descended. EFFINGHAM P. HUMPHREY, JR. Rivivon's New York Newspaper; Excerpts from a Loyalist Press, 1773-1783. Compiled by Kenneth Scott. (New York: 'Ile NeveYork Historical Society, 1973. xi, 470 p. Index. $1500.1 The author is known to all researchers in New York area records. He has worked primarily in uncovering, arranging and publishing little known or long lost original material of great genealogical and historical value. Through him we have access to material that otherwise could not have been found, and all who work in the New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania and Connecticut areas are greatly fn Vs debt. Book Reviews 209 The present volume is prefaced by a 27 page biographical and genealogical sketch of the family of James Rivington, and a description of his newspaper, its policies and its contents. Following thIs, arranged chronologically as they appeared, are abstracts, of the items that mention Individuals during the eleven years that encompass the period from the founding of the Continental Congress to the organization of the federal government. Rivington's sympathies were loyalist throughout the war, and though his columns reported all the news, it would be chiefly through his paper that information of importance to anyone researching a loyalist family would be most likely to be found. In the last years of the Revolution his opinions must have undergone some change, since we find him acting as an informant for General Washington. A master two-column index of 108 pages concludes the work. Dr. Scott, you've done it again! WALTER LEE SHEPPARD, JR. Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Part Four. (Encyclopedia of Arperican Quaker Genealogy, Volume VII). Edited by Willard Heiss. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1972. xii, 500 p. $15-00; $12.50, paperbound.) . . This volume continues the monumental work begun by William Wade Hinshaw in assembling and publishing Quaker Meeting records ; It includes records of eleven meetings in Wayne, Henry, Madison and Rush Counties, including two Hicksite Meetings and one Anti-Slavery Meeting. It should be noted that records of Monthly Meetings established after 1875 have not been included in this series. Since there is no general index for the contents of the volume, the searcher must look under each Meeting, where the names are arranged alphabetically and chronologically within the surname. As has been noted regarding previous volumes of the Encyclopedia, these birth, marriage, death and other notices are an invaluable source of accurate information. EFFINGHAM P. HUMPHREY, JR. (Volume I of English Surname Series, edited by R. A. McKintey.) By George Redmonds. With a Foreward by Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms. (London: Phillimore, 1973. xiv, 314 p. Maps, genealogical charts, appendices, bibliography, index. £,5.25.) A scholarly work of the first order in a relatively recent science, surname study. Dr. Redmonds examines surname development in the West Riding ov,er a 700 year period; he concludes that most surnames became hereditary in the period 1275-1425, and shows their categories of origin, identification and distribution. , Several family names are treated extensively, including Armitage, Fentiman of Hardcastle of Bewerly, Shillite of Featherstone, and Tillotson of Cowling. Many ...ther surnames are discussed, and can be easily located, thanks to the excellent index. for example, Taking another approach, the author studies surnames by towns Brodsworth and Allerton Mauleverer, York, Almondbury, Halifax parish, and Bolton by Bowland. This thoroughly professional study, packed with carefully documented information, adds a provocative and valid dimension to genealogical research. Assuming that its high standards of erudition, research, analysis and collation are maintained in subsequent volumes, this series will be an indispensable tool for genealogical research in England. EFFINGHAM P. HUMPHREY. JR. Yorkshire West Riding. 210 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Colonial Settlers and English Adventurers: Abstracts of Legal Proceedings in Seventeenth Century English and Dutch Courts )?elating to Immigrant Families; A Source Material Guide. By Noel Currer-Bnggs. (Baltimore. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1971. my, 360 p., index. $17.50.) In 1969, Mr. Currer-Bnggs published in Great Britain a three volume work entitled, English Adventurers and Virginia Settlers, republished by the Genealogical Publishing Company in a single volume as Virginia Settlers and English Adventurers In Ibis first work, the author provided annotated summaries anti abstracts of source material from English and colonial records for families named Kirby, in an extensive study to identify the antecedents of one Thomas Kirby who went to Virginia in the 1630's. Many records relating to colonies other than Virginia were also noted. It is from this mass of material that the author has assembled his subsequent publication; additional volumes are planned. Parts I and II relate to the Kirby family in England, and contain no ties to the Kirbys of the American Colonies. Part III supports a study of the ancestry of Thomas and Richard Chadwell, early settlers of Massachusetts, whose English connections are summarized in the Foreward. Part IV, containing Currer papers, has less interest for us, since no immigrant founded a family to continue that surname here. The documents summarized are for Yorkshire and Lacashire; the author has included them on the chance that surnames there appearing may be useful in finding connections with colonial immigrants of the same name. Part V lists Qhancery Cases, 1547-1625, where it is hoped the researcher may discover a connection with a colonial family. Though the index identifies them as brief abstracts, many entries are little more than names of litigants. Parts VI and VII contain considerably more detailed material, abstracted from the notarial books of Rotterdam and Amsterdam These abstracts demonstrate the wealth of material these volumes contain regarding the colonies, related mostly to merchant shipping and trade, but still of cpnsic(erable value to the genealogist. Anyone wishing to gain Instant identification of a colonial ancestor in this publication will be disappointed. The indexes show only two references to specific locations in America: 1) document 35, regarding Henry Pierson (Pearson) of Southampton, L.1., and 2) document 816, regarding Benjamin Glover of Boston, who died without surviving issue (his mother in London inherited his effects). The Pierson document was discov,ered and printed half a century ago, and search for his antecedents from this lead, in Olney, co. Bucks., has so far been unavailing. The real value of the book lies in the leads that these papers may supply to a researcher — guiding him to an area or ,a type of record that may be rewarding. We hope that the succeeding volumes in this series will soon appear. WALTER LEE SHEPPARD, Jet. Edited by Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1973. Facsimile reprint of the original six volumes published in London, 1897-1918, bound together. I: II 1 p., index; ii, 112 p., index; III: 115 p., index; IV! xxiii, 150 p., index; V: xxvi, 154 p., index; VI: xxiii, 158 p., index. $25.00.) Visitation of Ireland. Unlike the English county visitation pedigrees, the six books of the Visitation of Ireland were put together at the turn of the century from material presumably inspected and verified by Messrs. Howard and Crisp. Each pedigree is a Conlpilation of materials Book Reviews 211 from family records, and bears facsimilies of the signatures of several of the persons named in it and from whose records the pedigree was assembled. The earliest of them start in the eighteenth century, and all continue through the date of publication. Though each volume is paged and indexed independently, there is unfortunately no master index. Each volume provides a list of the surnames of those families whose pedigrees are included in that volume, but there is no consolidated list of these, either. And to make matters worse, there are addenda and corrigenda at the end of each volume except the first, those in volumes IV through VI running to 23 and more pages, and none of them is included in the indexes. It would have been helpful had the publishers followed the practice they adopted in reprinting as a single volume Ljungstedt's County Court Note Book, and placed a colored separator between the volumes, so as to be able to locate quickly each index. This is a valuable work for those concerned with armigerous Irish families of the last century. It is unfortunate that it is so difficult to use. WALTER LEE SHEPPARD, JR. By J. Dominick Hackett and Charles Montague Early. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965, reissued 1973. Paperbound, 45p. $5.00.) Passenger Lists from Ireland. This pamphlet consists of reprints of two articles, each of which originally appeared in the Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, vols. 28 and 29 (New York, 1929-1931). The first of these, by Mr. Hackett, consolidates alphabetically the names of Irish immigrants to a number of United States ports on 37 ships, during the year 1811, as they appeared in The Shamrock, an Irish periodical. This is stated to be complete for all names appearing therein with the exception of the issue for July 27th which is missing but may not have contained a Passenger List." The author prefaces his list with three pages of useful commentary , In the second article, Mr. Early does the same thing for The Shamrock listings in the years 1815 and 1816, for a total of 32 ships. There is no master index, so each list must be checkedI independently by the user. The lists cover only the arrivals in the three years mentioned above, and there is no guarantee that even for those years the lists are complete. To obtain the maximum value from this material the researcher should combine his work in them with a check of the naturalization records in the area of arrival of the immigrants of interest to him, It is certainly to be hoped that work on these lists will be continued until at least the first half of the nineteenth century is covered, and a master index prepared for all of the lists. WALTER LEE SHEPPARD, JR. By J. P. Brooke-Little, M.V.O., MA., F.S.A., F.H.S., Richmond Herald of Arms. (New York: Arco, 1973. xi, 224 p, Illustrations, four color plates. $8.95. The publisher, at 219 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003, offers 20% discount to Society members who order direct.) An Heraldic Alphabet. Just about everything you need to know about heraldic terms, in a complete and clear glossary, presented by an expert. In addition to the author's foreward, there are four explanatory chapters, and then the alphabet, which runs from Aaron's Rod to Zule, with most terms illustrated in black and white drawings. A useful reference book. EFFINGHAM P. HUMPHREY. JR.