Reviews

Reviews As a convenience to readers, addresses and ordering information for the major genealogical publishers mentioned in reviews are listed at the end of this section, on page 526. Agricultural Schedules and Federal Census Schedules, 1850-1880: Brecknock Town¬ ship, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By James E. Frey. Masthof Press, Mor¬ gantown, PA, 1997. 146 pp., index, maps, paper. $12.50 plus $3,00 ship¬ ping. Agricultural Schedules and Federal Census Schedules, 1850-1880: Caemavon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. By James E. Frey. Masthof Press, Morgantown, PA, 1999. 128 pp., index, maps, paper. $12.50 plus $3.00 shipping. While considerable emphasis has been placed on the United States fed¬ eral census, taken every ten years since 1790 for the purpose of congres¬ sional district reapportionment, other schedules undertaken by the census office have largely been ignored. Between the years of 1850 and 1880, in addition to the population count, informauon was gathered on agriculture, industry, mortality, and American society in general, as part of the non-population schedules. When agricul¬ tural specifics were not available, farmers were required to give reasonable estimates. Household production was considered a part of farm production, but cabbage, potato patches, and the family vegetable gardens were not counted. Census takers were required to gather accurate information; so, on or as close to June 1 as possible, they traveled throughout the district to visit each household assigned to them. Sometimes the same person recorded both the population and non-population information. For 1850 and 1860, the agricultural schedules were divided into the following categories: name of owner, agent, or manager of farm; number of improved acres of land; cash value of farm; value of farming imple¬ ments and machinery; livestock as of June 1 (horses, asses and mules, milch cows, working oxen, other cattle, sheep swine); value of livestock; produce (listing some 34 crops); and value of animals slaughtered dur315 316 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ing the year ending 1 June. By 1880 the schedule included 100 different questions, among them farm value, amount paid for wages in the preced¬ ing year, gallons of milk, butter, and cheese produced, and amounts sent to butter and cheese factories. The publications also include maps showing the land owners for each of the four census years. The records presented in these volumes were excerpted from the agricul¬ tural census schedules and then cross-referenced with the population schedule for the same year. An example of the information available can be shown by following one farm: In 1850 Joseph Shirk, age 57, owns 21 acres of land, and is living with his presumed wife (Elizabeth, age 58) and daughter (Elizabeth, age 21) on the farm. By 1860 Joseph apparently has died. Joseph is still listed as the owner/operator of the farm, but Elizabeth Shirk is now a “private lady” liv¬ ing with Henry Meyers, age 26, Elizabeth Shirt Meyers, age 31, and threemonths-old Sarah. By 1870 Elizabeth is gone, Henry is in charge of the farm to which he has acquired more acreage, and two more children are listed. In the final record, 1880, Henry owns 119 acres and his wife and three chil¬ dren still appear. This type of book is a wonderful source for all historians, family or other¬ wise. The information provides wonderful “meat” to add to the bones of an ancestral tree. It would be wonderful if records such as this would someday be available for every township in the Commonwealth and indeed for any township nationwide for which these records exist. — Jane Adams Clarke, FGSP Philadelphia Enumeration Districts of 1910. Abstr. by Susan S. Koelble and Kristin K. Bryson. Bare Roots Publishing, Southampton, PA, 1999. 228 pp., appendixes, paper. $25.00 plus $5.00 shipping from the publisher at PO Box 134, Southampton, PA 18966-0134. The 1910 federal census offers such useful information as the year of immigration, naturalization status, and number of years married along with name, age, birth place, relationship to head of household, and birth place of parents. This census is particularly helpful in accessing immigration and naturalization records for our ancestors arriving in the eary twentieth cen¬ tury. Indexes, in the form of soundex or miracode cards, exist for only 21 states, including Pennsylvania. Indexes, however, are neither complete nor accurate for all the individu¬ als included. This is particularly true in cities, where large numbers of immi- 317 Reviews grants lived. All too often their names are so badly misspelled that they are lost in the index. It happened frequently, too, that many apartment dwellers were missed by the census takers. To overcome the problem of missing or incomplete 1910 indexes, the census bureau prepared a guide to the enumeration districts those arbi¬ trary divisions used in census records— of many major cities, including Philadelphia. The guides, available as a National Archives film publication, can help researchers convert a street address into an enumeration district, — thereby cutting down on the research time immensely. Philadelphia Enumeration Districts presents in book form the filmed infor¬ mation for Philadelphia streets, showing the Enumeration District (ED) for a particular street address which, for example, might be located through a city directory or vital record or obituary. The introduction offers a guide to using the publication. Useful appendixes include a list of the EDs for vari¬ ous institutions in the city, a table showing the EDs of each ward with the corresponding microfilm reel number, and a 1907 ward map of Philadel¬ phia. If your ancestors are lost in Philadelphia in 1910, you will certainly want to consult this finding aid to search for them. Kay Haviland Freilich, CG Chicago and Cook County: A Guide to Research. By Loretto Dennis Szucs. Ances¬ try, 1996. 350 pp., illustrations, maps, paper. $19.95 plus shipping. This books’s message is that genealogical research in Chicago and sur¬ rounding Cook County, Illinois, presents significant difficulties to family historians and other students of lineal descent. An introduction poses three principal challenges to the ancestry practitioner: the sheer magnitude of available sources, bureaucratic barriers, and broad geographical distribu¬ tion of useful records. Ms. Szucs addresses these complexities on the premise that the reader is deeply interested in genealogical inquiry and serious about doing it well. She then set to work helping to make this happen, through an introduction and 35 alphabetically arranged sections from “Chicago and Cook County Facts” to “Voter Registration Lists and Records.” In between, the author places a potpourri of expected sources, including cemeteries (more than 200) , historical societies, and military records, together with the less obvious house histories, biographical sketches, and fraternal, social, and patriotic societies. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 318 Lest the reader think the task will be easy or automatic, the author weaves a 1871 Chicago Fire thread throughout the text, as the results of the confla¬ gration continue to threaten the success of research projects focusing on events prior to that disaster. She also offers some statistics to dramatize the dimensions of this population center of more than 5 million people living within its 956 square miles. For example, its Circuit Court is the largest in the world, operating 300 courtrooms, with sitting judges hearing 6 million cases each year. At one time or another Chicago could claim to be the largest Lithuanian city in the world, the second largest Ukrainian city, and the third largest Irish, Polish, and Jewish cities. Many of the millions attracted to the area residents, and the records of these transient men and were temporary women complicate the genealogist’s work. A recent statewide “Historical Re¬ cords Needs Survey Assessment” cited Chicago and Cook County as having the most critical records problem in the state. Loretto Szucs claims that the primary goal of her book is to identify these hard-to-find ethnic sources. In fact, the largest section of this guide consists of 40 pages of ethnic source names and addresses, together with selected biographical title lists to which the genealogist may turn for information about these foreign-born persons. In the city’s formative years, ethnic groups comprised half of its population, and throughout its history they as¬ sumed an important part in its development. We meet, in turn, sources for African-Americans, Native Americans, Canadians, Chinese and Japanese people, followed by most European nationalities and Russian /Ukrainian reference resources. Religious records, the author explains, are closely related in impor¬ tance to ethnic data. Church records generally pre-date civil records and represent another valuable primary source, despite the fact that different denominations keep different types of records. The author flavors her book with reminders of good genealogical proce¬ dures such as the crucial nature of facts and the importance of working from the present to the past. There is also the advice to be diplomatic in dealing with the temperament of those who control the records they, the re¬ searchers, wish to examine. Chicago and Cook County will be of great help to the genealogists working in this area because, while much of the research may be thwarted by the many problems presented, they (family historians) will be amply compen¬ sated by the multiple sources not available in less populated areas. Well done. H John A. Baird Jr. Reviews 319 * Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America: Volume 10, 1743. Trans, by Don Saville and George Fenwick Jones. Ed. by George Fenwick Jones. Picton Press, 1997. 194 pp., appendixes, notes, index, cloth. $35.00, Piety is a good watchword for this surprising account of eighteenthcentury European religious refugees who came to British North America and settled in southern Georgia. Expelled from Salzburg, Austria, for their Lutheran beliefs, some went to East Prussia or to other European countries, but about 200 were taken across the Atlantic and located near Savannah. They formed a settlement they called “Ebeneezer.” Three other traveling parties known as Salzburg transports followed the initial 1734 group by 1741. A London coterie of benevolent men called the “Trustees” formed the Colony of Georgia in 1730 to provide homes for impoverished Englishmen and persecuted foreign Protestants. They also wanted to protect the more northern colonies from the Spaniards in Florida. Detailed Reports consists of the 1743 journals of the Rev, Johann Martin Boltzius, who proved to be not only the emigrants' spiritual leader but also a skillful secular administrator as well. A certain Samuel Urlsperger, Senior of the Augsburger Lutheran clergy in those days, contemporaneously edited the Boltzius work. The original documents no longer exist, and there is reason to believe that Urlsperger deleted some entries and consolidated others for diplo¬ matic purposes. While many persons are mentioned by name in this diary, various others appear only by the uppercase letter “N.” Readers will find the Boltzius record presented in twelve chapters corre¬ sponding to the months of the year. The January section begins with New Year’s Day and the December segment ends on the 31st of that month, but there are no entries for many days between. This is a religious journal. Page one begins with the caption “In the name of Jesus, Amen” while the text concludes “praise to God for all his assis¬ tance.” The minister first notes a regular prayer hour on bended knees, moves on to mention divine services the following day, and by January 6 comments upon their celebration of the Feast of Epiphany. Presumably the author prepared his diary to impress the Trustees back in London with the merits of their missionary effort. In this respect, he earns * Editor’s Note: This volume, one of 18 in the series, also includes the passenger lists of all arrivals in the 1 730s. 320 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine praise for genuine accomplishment. Boltzius writes about cattle disease and poor soil, fires and floods, and the continual need for seeds and more horse collars from England. This brave little outpost on the edge of the wilderness did not exist in to¬ tal isolation. Intermittent mention is made of Governor James Oglethorpe, and readers are not allowed to forget the ever-present Spanish threats from the South. The diary is a pastiche of news, thanksgiving for help received from both man and God, and the continual requests for more supplies. Boltzius ties them together with quotations of appropriate Bible verses and flavors his work with references to the hymns sung by the 279 souls at Ebeneezer. Ap¬ pendix I confirms the importance of the more than 20 musical expressions of Christian praise. Amid the generally positive happenings, occasional mention is made of individual shortcomings such as the parishioner who rejected the minis* ter’s call to repentance, and another disquieted soul who stole a single — peach! In summary, this book describes illness and other misfortune as “bell to repentance" for sinful humankind. Good works, however, will not suffice for salvation and redemption. A person must participate in the grace of God. John A. Bairdjr. — The “Lost” Pensions Settled Accounts of the Act of 6 April 1838, By Craig R. Scott, CGRS. Willow Bend Books, 1996. 373 pp., paper, index. $28.00 plus shipping. “Lost” Pensions is a finding aid to 144 boxes of payment records found at the National Archives in Washington, DC, under the full title “Settled Ac¬ counts for Payment of Accrued Pensions (Final Pensions)." They represent accounts from the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, various Indian Wars be¬ fore 1860, and the Mexican War. The title is somewhat of a misnomer. The records were never actually lost; however, so few people have taken the time or trouble to use these De¬ partment of the Treasury records (Record Group 217) that they might as well have been lost. Not all the records identified in this volume are final payments. Some five-year half-pay pensions, granted at a rate of one pay¬ ment every six months at half-pay for a period of five years, were paid to widows of soldiers who died in the War of 1812, Indians Wars, and Mexi¬ can Wars. If the widow remarried, orphans under the age of sixteen 321 Reviews could collect the payment. Record Group 217 is actually easily accessible in Washington, especially if one uses Craig Scott’s “Lost” Pensions guide. Users of the guide should be aware that these records are not part of the collection of “Selected Final Payment Vouchers” that resulted from a fiveyear project by the National Archives to extract genealogical material from the Revolutionary War payment vouchers. That project resulted in a separa¬ tion of about 55,000 vouchers from the pension accounts. A useful introduction describes the record group and notes how to use the publication. The author is currently cataloguing War of 1812 widows’ pensions. Meanwhile, researchers interested in the wars covered in this vol¬ ume will find it helpful. Jane Adams Clarke, FGSP Brief Reviews* Reviewed by Jeanne Pontarelli Abstracts of Cecil County, Maryland Land Records, 1673—1751. By June D. Brown. Family Line Publications, 1998. 302 pp., index, paper. $24.50 plus shipping. Cecil County was created from Baltimore County and Kent County in 1674. The introduction in this book explains the boundaries of the counties and where to find earlier records. The first English settlement located on Palmer’s Island (later called Watson’s Island) was established in 1627. Land records have more genealogical information than many people may realize. Names of heirs, place of residence before coming to Maryland, and other holdings are given. Often, if a land holder died intestate, using land records is the only way to find the information. * Editor Note: Some of the volumes reviewed here are abstracts of original records that can be very helpful in the genealogist’s search for an ancestor’s records, the reader is cau¬ tioned, however, that the possibility of errors or omissions exists whenever abstracted and/or transcribed records are used. If at all possible, the original or a microfilm copy of the original should be examined. Many of the records included in the “Brief Reviews’* sec¬ tion have been microfilmed and are available through the Family History Library System. 322 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine One caution about the index is in order. A name may appear more than once on a page, so each page should be scanned very carefully. Reviewed by Jane Adams Clarke, FGSP Weiser Families in America, Prepared for the Three-Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of John Conrad Weiser (1696-1760). By Frederick S. Weiser, Paulette J. Weiser, and Edward H. Weiser. The John Conrad Weiser Family Associa¬ tion, 1997. 2 vols., 2,053 pp., index, map, illustrations, acid-free paper, cloth. $145.00 plus $20.00 shipping. Order from the Association at 55 Kohler School Rd,, New Oxford, PA 17350. This tremendous undertaking by the Weiser Family Association includes information on the origins and distribution of the surname Weisser/ Weiser, the German Weisser forebears of John Conrad Weisser the elder (d. 1746) from 1475 to 1710, the family of John Conrad Weiser, the descen¬ dants of John Conrad Weiser (d. 1760), and other known descendants of John Conrad the elder. This labor of love is an accumulation of as much information as could be found on this prolific family over a period of many years. Reviewed by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG Early Church Records of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Volum 2. By Charlotte Meldrum and Martha Reamy. Family Line Publications, 1997. xi plus 222 pp., index, map, paper. $19.00 plus shipping. This second volume of church records from Pennsylvania’s Chester County covers four congregations with records dating from 1720 to 1800. Reflecting the strong Quaker heritage of the area, three of the four are Friends Meetings: Uwchland, Goshen, and New Garden. The abstracts are based on early work by Gilbert Cope, noted historian and genealogist. The fourth congregation is the East Vincent Reformed congregation. A useful introduction covers the history of denomination settlement in the county and includes a map with township boundaries. Cemetery Records of Martic Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Byjenne Renkin. Family Line Publications, 1997. vi plus 135 pp., paper, index, map, appendix. $11.50 plus shipping. Reviews 325 The area that is now Martic Township was already setded when Lancaster County was formed in 1729 and the township was established with the county. Early residents were mosdy Scots-Irish. Included in this work are the inscriptions of every exisdng church cemetery in the township, plus two in neighboring townships that are close to the township borders. By denomi¬ nation there are six Methodist cemeteries, two Presbyterian, and one Mennonite, plus one single-grave cemetery called Flory Mill. Inscriptions were copied by the author during the past 25 years. Readers will appreciate the brief history of each church that is included along with the driving directions to the cemeteries. The appendix covers veterans buried in the township from the American Revolution through the Vietnam War. The Kimbles of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Cecil County, Maryland. By Seruch Titus Kimble Jr. and Helen Matchett Kimble. Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1994. (Revised edition of The Kimble Family from Z to A, 1984.) xvii plus 386 pp., cloth, index, genealogical charts, photos, maps. To or¬ der, contact Seruch T. Kimble, M.D., 333 Emone Church Rd., Olney, MD 20832-2611. Anthony Kimble, the earliest ancestor in this family genealogy, married Matilda Morrey, the daughter of Richard Morrey of Cheltenham and grand¬ daughter of Humphrey Morrey, Philadelphia's first mayor. Early settlers of Bucks County, the family was originally Quaker and eventually became Pres¬ byterians. Allied families were of Swiss, Dutch, and Irish extraction. This work includes a bibliography of sources used. Transcriptions of many of the documents reviewed are included in the appendix. 350 Years of American Ancestors: Thirty-Eight Families, 1630-1989. By Mary Coates Martin. Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1989. vi plus 473 pp., cloth, index, photos, genealogical charts, map, $27.50 plus $2.00 ship¬ ping from the author at 330 West Brambleton Ave., Apt. 1815, Norfolk, VA 23510-1325. Working with her ancestral families who settled in the southern part of New Jersey, Martin traces their forebearers to colonial families from Massa¬ chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Dela¬ ware. Each family is presented in an separate chapter, and the book in¬ cludes a bibliography of sources. In addition, clues in the text often indicate the exact source of various records cited. Descendants in some lines are 324 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine taken to the present day. The discussion of early Swedes in America offers interesting historical background. The Langhomes of Langhome Park: Descendants of Thomas Langhome ( 1633 ?1687) of County Westmoreland, England, and Bucks County , Pennsylvania, fa¬ ther of Sarah Langhome, wife of William Biles, Jr., and of Jeremiah Langhome, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. By D. Brenton Simons. Newbury Street Press, Boston, 1997. xlviii plus 178 pp., index, maps, illustrations, charts, cloth. $29.50 plus $3.50 shipping. An early influential Quaker in both England and Pennsylvania, Thomas Langhome has been the subject of previous biographical and genealogical studies. This latest work has an ambitious three-part goal: to correct long-stand¬ ing errors about the family, to provide new data for four generations in Amer¬ ica, and to place the family in the context of a group of interrelated Quaker families. The Langhomes succeeds admirably. Using a wide variety of original re¬ cords in both England and Philadelphia, the author addresses each of the goals and in the process shows how a family genealogy should be written. The ances¬ tors discussed in these pages become alive through the extensive use of quota¬ tions from documents and through the use of maps, photographs, and sketches. The complete source citations enable a reader to follow the research path and learn how conclusions were made. An extensive discussion of pre¬ viously identified parents, other possible parents, and the probable parents is just one example of the strengths of the new publication. The Warren Family of Twigg County, Kentucky. By Martha Jane Stone. Poole Press, Lexington, KY, 1990. 411 pp., cloth, index, illustrations. $59.95 in¬ cluding shipping. Order from the author at 810 Cramer Ave., Lexington, KY 40502-1414. Subjects of this extensive family history are four Warren brothers who came into Kentucky in 1827. The oldest of the four, Manan, later went on to Pettis County, Missouri in 1846. Descendants of James Warren, born 1784, and his wife Margaret Stewart are traced. The work is well-documented with Civil War papers, deeds, and photographs. Reviews 325 Recent Reprints/ New Editions Genealogy Starter Kit, 2d ed. By William Dollarhide. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998; orig. publ. 1994. vii plus 48 pp., paper, charts, $9,95 plus ship¬ ping. Kinship: It's AU Relative, 2d ed. Byjackie Smith Arnold. Genealogical Publish¬ ing Co., 2000; orig. publ. 1990. xi plus 123 pp., paper, index, charts, $9.95 plus shipping. Updated with a new glossary, bibliography, and index. The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts. By Richard P. Hallowell. Heritage Books, 1987; orig. pub. 1883. vi plus 227 pp., index, appendix. $20.50 plus shipping. Pennsylvania Vital Records from the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Clearfield Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1999; orig. pub. 1983. 2,491 pp. in 3 vols., paper, index. $150.00 plus shipping. Genealogical History of the Town of Reading Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1874. By The Hon. Lilley Eaton. Heritage Books, Bowie, MD., 1994; orig. pub. 1865-1874. 2 vols., 849 pp., index, illustrations, paper. $47.00 plus ship¬ ping. Pennsylvania German Marriages: Marriages and Marriage Evidence in Pennsylva¬ nia German Churches, 2d ed. Comp, by Donna Irish. Clearfield Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1998; orig. pub. 1982. 817 pp., index, paper. $55.00 plus shipping. Abstracts of mostly Pennsylvania German Reformed records from Phila¬ delphia west to Cumberland County in the eighteenth century, taken pri¬ marily from the William J. 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