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Family Archives CD #600
Some two million Huguenots, or French Protestants, fled France after the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685--an edict which had originally
protected them from persecution at the hands of the Catholic Church. Dispersing
first to the Netherlands, then to England, Ireland, and even South Africa, then
to America and Canada, thousands of these French Protestants became the founders
or early settlers of such places as Oxford, Massachusetts, Narragansett in Rhode
Island, New Amsterdam, New Rochelle, and New Paltz in New York, the Santee River
and the Orange Quarter in South Carolina, Manakin-Town in Virginia, and a host
of other sites in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Virginia,
and South Carolina--in many cases establishing permanent settlements long before
the arrival of the first English colonists.
This Family Archive CD, produced in collaboration with Broderbund Software,
contains electronically searchable text of the pages of sixteen Huguenot
reference works published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Together these
books comprise the most notable collection of Huguenot reference materials in
the English language. In general, they provide accounts of the origins of the
Huguenots in France, their persecution and subsequent flight from the European
mainland, and their dispersal throughout Great Britain and America. Key sections
of the books are devoted to histories of Huguenot settlements and churches and
to studies of the Huguenot influence on American life before the Revolutionary
War. But the most significant portions of the books are reserved for accounts of
Huguenot immigrants and their families, some taking the form of pedigrees,
genealogies, and lengthy family histories, others appearing as lists of
baptisms, marriages, and deaths.
In both narratives and records, there is a profusion of genealogical detail,
which is here presented in a convenient, easy-to-use CD, complete with an
electronic name index, at a fraction of the cost of the books! Listed below are
the sixteen books included on this CD:
1. History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, by Charles W. Baird
2. Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin-Town,
by Robert Brock
3. The Annals and Parish Register of St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, in
South Carolina, from 1680 to 1884, by Robert F. Clute
4. The French Blood in America, by Lucien Fosdick
5. The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina, by Arthur Henry Hirsch
6. The Huguenots or Early French in New Jersey, by Albert F. Koehler
7. Huguenot Pedigrees, by Charles Edmund Lart
8. Family Names of Huguenot Refugees to America, by Mrs. James Lawton
9. The Huguenot Settlements in Ireland, by Grace Lawless Lee
10. The Huguenots in France and America, by Hannah F. Lee
11. History of New Paltz, New York, and its Old Families, by Ralph
LeFevre
12. Memoir Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the
Colony of Rhode Island, by Elisha R. Potter
13. List of French and Swiss Who Settled in Charleston, on the Santee, and
at the Orange Quarter in Carolina, by Daniel Ravenel
14. The Trail of the Huguenots, by George Elmore Reaman
15. The Huguenots: Their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England
and Ireland, by Samuel Smiles
16. Memorials of Huguenots in America, by Ammon Stapleton
