Virginia’s Northern Neck is comprised of the present-day counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, and Westmoreland. (The oldest records for Richmond County date from its origin as part of Old Rappahannock County.) The foremost authority on Northern Neck genealogy is Robert K. Headley, Jr. Mr. Headley, who has immersed himself in its records for most of[…]Read more
All the world is abuzz about the applications and potential uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is widely used in education (personalized learning), healthcare (diagnosis and treatment recommendations), transportation (self-driving cars, optimizing traffic patterns), marketing (generating Internet content based on individual tastes.), entertainment (scriptwriting and simulation of living and deceased actors), and many more applications.[…]Read more
As author Doug Tattershall reminds us in the Introduction to his new book, Storytelling for Genealogists: Turning Family Lineage into Family History, “We work hard to discover our family tree. But what we [and the people we are writing for] really want to know is our family story.” To put it bluntly, if you want[…]Read more
Genealogy is about solving puzzles. Who is related to whom? Who was my immigrant ancestor? How far back in time can I go? Do I have a famous ancestor? And so on. Family history is different. If you want others to learn about where you and they came from, you must command their attention. As[…]Read more
As Dr. David Dobson has noted in the Introduction to his new book, Scottish Baronial Families, 1250-1750, medieval Scottish kings established administrative units overseen by barons to assure that the King’s laws were enforced, taxes were collected, and, when necessary, knights and other warriors were available to defend the kingdom. By the late seventeenth century[…]Read more
(View Book Details) From the Introduction . . . “From the 11th century onwards, Scottish kings increasingly favoured the feudal system as a method of ruling and controlling the kingdom. By about 1200, the kings established administrative units known as baronies. These baronies were supervised by lords known as Barons, whose function included ensuring that[…]Read more
As we have noted previously, New York in 1698: A Comprehensive List of Residents, Based on Census, Tax, and Other Lists, by Kory L. Meyerink, represents a masterful effort to reconstruct a comprehensive census of the inhabitants of the New York Colony in 1698, many of the original returns of which have been lost to[…]Read more
MY GPC LIBRARY, our eBook subscription program, consists of about 800 eBook titles and growing. Subscribers can look for names or places across all our eBooks–not just book by book—in a single search. The platform allows you to set bookmarks, make notes, and add citations as you work. Because you will have access to the entirety[…]Read more
The publication in 2024 of the two-volume Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, by Dr. David Dobson, marks the third consolidated edition of Dr. Dobson’s works issued in recent years. The Scottish Soldiers collection identifies over 10,000 Scottish soldiers who served in the Americas, many of whom fought in the French and Indian War and/or the[…]Read more
In previous issues of “Genealogy Pointers,” we have pointed out various features of Roberta Estes’ new book, The Complete Guide to Family TreeDNA. The book is currently available in e-Pub format and both black-and- white and color print editions. By the way, if you already purchased or plan to purchase the black-and-white edition, please know[…]Read more
We’ve written previously about our new guidebook, The Complete Guide to Lineage Societies, by Dr. Kimberly Nagy. In scarcely 80 pages, Dr. Nagy tells you everything you need to know if you’ve ever wondered about becoming a member of a lineage society. She begins with a description of what lineage societies have in common, what[…]Read more
Between 1997 and 2024, Genealogical.com published the nine-volume series, Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, by Dr. David Dobson. We are delighted to present those books in a new, fully indexed, consolidated edition. Although Scottish soldiers could be found in the Americas during the seventeenth century—oftentimes originally transported as prisoners of war and subsequently recruited into[…]Read more
