A classic examination of the materials, techniques, and cultural, sociological, and professional aspects of genealogy

Genealogy as Pastime and Profession, Second Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Jacobus, Donald Lines

Sociology

Genealogical Publishing Company

Reprint. Originally published: New Haven, Conn., 1932, 1948, 1953.

Index to Genealogical Periodicals. Three Volumes in One

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Genealogical Publishing Co.

Of the forty-seven families set forth here (Hale and House and forty-five others), fourteen lived in Glastonbury or its mother town of Wetherfield, four were of Hartford, and two of Windsor; while on the Massachusetts side, fourteen lived in Springfield and six others were located in Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield, and Deerfield. Two were in Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut River, and five were scattered. Mr. Jacobus, who built on Mr. Waterman's files, succeeded in presenting exhaustive data from original sources, in providing new interpretations as well as additions and corrections to existing literature, and in making the family accounts definitive. The index alone bears reference to some 16,500 persons. 
The following, not including the Hale and House families, is a list of the main families treated in the work: Samuel Allen, William Backus, Mary Betts, John Bidwell, Thomas Bliss, Robert Blott, Samuel Boteman, Henry Burt, Richard Church, John Clark, Thomas Cooper, Robert Day, Emanuel Downing, John Dumbleton, William Edwards, Nathaniel Ely, John Frary, William Goodrich, Thomas Graves, William Hills, Luke Hitchcock, John Hollister, Edward Holyoke, Margaret (Baret) Huntington, John Keep, Thomas Kilbourn, Thomas Kimberly, John Leonard, Thomas Loveland, Thomas Marshfield, Matthew Marvin, Thomas Miller, William Pratt, William Pynchon, John Riley, John Scott, Rev. John Warham, Gov. Thomas Welles, John Wilcox, and Thomas Woolford.

Hale, House and Related Families Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (#2990-GW)

History

Waterman, Edgar Francis

Americas

Clearfield

Covering hundreds of Revolutionary War veterans ofFairfield, Connecticut, this book contains abstracts of pension records that were originally on file at the old Pension Bureau in Washington, D.C., including soldiers' and widows' applications, bounty land warrants, and rejected pension applications. Packed with information-much of it deriving from affidavits provided by friends and relatives in support of the veteran' s application for a pension-the abstracts include some or all of the following data: name of pension applicant, place and date of birth, age, dates of enlistment and discharge, service record (sometimes very detailed but always interesting), place of residence before and after service, distinguishing characteristics, name of spouse, date of marriage, names of children, and names of parents and other family members. Technological advances notwithstanding, nowhere else can the researcher find so much information so quickly on Fairfield's Revolutionary War pensioners. 
In addition to the pension abstracts, this work also contains an exhaustive collection of muster rolls of Fairfield soldiers in the militia and Continental Army. Roll by roll, Fairfield men are identified by name, rank, and dates of enlistment and discharge, and occasionally by other details such as company, regiment, engagements, injuries, and pay. With references to about 7,500 individuals, the muster rolls and pension abstracts give a comprehensive picture of Fairfield's contribution to the war effort. Both sections of the book are completely indexed, with soldiers set off in a separate index. 
Readers may be surprised to learn that this work was originally published in 1932 as Volume III of Donald Lines Jacobus' History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Unlike the first two volumes of that famous compendium, however, it has never been reprinted. Not a compendium of family histories but a collection of source records, it stands completely independent of the first two volumes and is available now as a separate and distinct contribution to Revolutionary War genealogy.

Revolutionary War Records of Fairfield, Connecticut

Curry, Kate S.

Genealogy

Clearfield Co.

The American Genealogist, Volumes 9-11

Picton Press

The American Genealogist 30-32

Book by Jacobus, Donald Lines, Boyer, Carl

Index to Genealogical Periodicals

Boyer, Carl

Carl Boyer

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