Author: Boyd PublishingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788429668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Methodist Preachers in Georgia, 1783-1900, a Supplement
Author: Boyd PublishingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788429668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Methodist Preachers in Georgia, 1783-1900
Author: Harold A. LawrencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Tracing Your Alabama Past
Author: Robert Scott DavisPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617035241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Searching for your Alabama ancestors? Looking for historical facts? Dates? Events? This book will lead you to the places where you'll find answers. Here are hundreds of direct sources--governmental, archival, agency, online--that will help you access information vital to your investigation. Tracing Your Alabama Past sets out to identify the means and the methods for finding information on people, places, subjects, and events in the long and colorful history of this state known as the crossroads of Dixie. It takes researchers directly to the sources that deliver answers and information. This comprehensive reference book leads to the wide array of essential facts and data--public records, census figures, military statistics, geography, studies of African American and Native American communities, local and biographical history, internet sites, archives, and more. For the first time Alabama researchers are offered a how-to book that is not just a bibliography. Such complex sources as Alabama's biographical/genealogical materials, federal land records, Civil WarÂ-era resources, and Native American sources are discussed in detail, along with many other topics of interest to researchers seeking information on this diverse Deep South state. Much of the book focuses on national sources that are covered elsewhere only in passing, if at all. Other books only touch on one subject area, but here, for the first time, are directions to the Who, What, When, Where, and Why.
A Reed-Robins Family of the Southeastern United States
Author: Dorothy Jeter BarnumPublisher:
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Category : Reed family
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
William Reed, son of Nathaniel Reed, was born in 1756 in North Carolina. He married Frances Robins about 1777 in Randolph County, North Carolina and they had 13 children. William died in Gilmer County, Georgia on 9 July 1840. Frances also died in Gilmer County on 7 June 1836. Their children and descendants have lived in Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, and other areas in the United States.
Schooling the Freed People
Author: Ronald E. ButchartPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899348
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People shatters this notion. The most comprehensive quantitative study of the origins of black education in freedom ever undertaken, this definitive book on freedmen's teachers in the South is an outstanding contribution to social history and our understanding of African American education.
The Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly
Author: Confederate Invention
Author: H. Jackson KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The formation of the Confederate States of America involved more than an attempt to create a new, sovereign nation -- it inspired a flurry of creativity and entrepreneurialism in the South that fiercely matched Union ingenuity. H. Jackson Knight's Confederate Invention brings to light the forgotten history of the Confederacy's industrious inventors and its active patent office. Despite the destruction wrought by the Civil War, evidence of Confederate inventions exists in the registry of the Confederate States Patent Office. Hundreds of southerners submitted applications to the agency to secure patents on their intellectual property, which ranged from a "machine for operating submarine batteries," to a "steam plough," to a "combined knapsack and tent," to an "instrument for sighting cannon." The Confederacy's most successful inventors included entrepreneurs, educators, and military men who sought to develop new weapons, weapon improvements, or other inventions that could benefit the Confederate cause as well as their own lives. Each creation belied the conception of a technologically backward South, incapable of matching the creativity and output of northern counterparts. Knight's work provides a groundbreaking study that includes neglected and largely forgotten patents as well as an array of other primary sources. Details on the patent office's origins, inner workings, and demise, and accounts of southern inventors who obtained patents before, during, and after the war reveal a captivating history recovered from obscurity. A novel creation in its own right, Confederate Invention presents the remarkable story behind the South's long-forgotten Civil War inventors and offers a comprehensive account of Confederate patents.
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