Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Cemetery Inscriptions from the Towns of Yorktown, Yorktown Heights and Amawalk, Westchester County, N.Y.
Author: Lent (van Lent) Family Newsletter
Author: Manhattan to Minisink
Author: Robert S. GrumetPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806189134
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Drivers exiting the New Jersey Turnpike for Perth Amboy, and map readers marveling at all the places in Pennsylvania named Lackawanna, need no longer wonder how these names originated. Manhattan to Minisink provides the histories of more than five hundred place names in the Greater New York area, including the five boroughs, western Long Island, the New York counties north of the city, and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Robert S. Grumet, a leading ethnohistorian specializing in the region’s Indian peoples, draws on his meticulous research and deep knowledge to determine the origins of Native, and Native-sounding, place names. Grumet divides his encyclopedic entries into two parts. The first comprises an alphabetical listing of nearly 340 Indian place names preserved in colonial records, located by county and state. Each entry includes the name’s language of origin, if known, and a brief discussion of its etymology, including its earliest known occurrence in written records, the history of its appearance on maps, and the name’s current status. The book’s second section presents nearly 200 place names that, though widely believed to be of Indian origin, are “imports, inventions, invocations, or impostors.” Mistranslations are abundant in place names, and Grumet has ferreted out the mistakes and deceptions among home-grown colonial etymologies that New Yorkers have accepted for centuries. Complete with a concise history of Greater New York, a discussion of the region’s naming practices, a useful timeline, and four maps, this is an invaluable resource both for scholars and for readers who want a more intimate knowledge of the place where they live or visit.
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Checklist of Books and Pamphlets in American History
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher: Albany, N.Y. : New York State Library [and] the University of the State of New York
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Burling Books: Generations 7-13 ; Appendices, Key to sources and abbreviations, Index
Author: Jane Thompson-StahrThe New York Times Index
Author: Genealogies of Long Island Families
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Since its inception in 1870, "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" has been at the forefront in publishing articles on Long Island families, many of them lengthy, definitive studies spread out over several issues. In a number of these articles the English or Dutch origin of families is established. No better purpose could be served than to gather these articles together and reprint them in their entirety, thus making available a mass of information on Long Island families that has previously been difficult to locate. With the articles appropriately consolidated and arranged, and additions and corrections from "The Record" properly appended, this two-volume compilation becomes the single greatest repository of Long Island genealogies in existence. In addition, it is fully indexed and is published with an introduction by Henry B. Hoff, former editor of "The Record."
The Old Dutch Burying Ground of Sleepy Hollow
Author: History Research Society of the Tappen ZeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description