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Family Archives CD #169
This CD is composed of the two greatest works ever published on New England Genealogy: James Savage's four-volume Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England and its companion volume Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, by Walter G. Davis, Sybil Noyes, and Charles T. Libby. All genealogical research on early New England families must begin here, and it is wonderful to have these authoritative volumes available on a single CD with an electronic index as a finding-aid.
The Savage work is said to be the best known and most frequently used genealogical reference work, and it provides the name of every settler who arrived in New England before the year 1692, regardless of his class or standing. It further traces his descendants, giving the dates of his marriage and his death, the dates of birth, marriage, and death of his children, and the birthdates and names of his grandchildren, thus recording the beginning of the third generation in New England. "I suppose," writes Savage, "nineteen twentieths of the people of these New England colonies in 1775 were descendants of those found here in 1692, and probably seven eighths of them were offspring of the settlers before 1642."
"Probably the greatest work on genealogy ever compiled for the New England area."--P. W. Filby, American & British Genealogy & Heraldry (1983)
"A work which must be literally at the elbow of every student of genealogy."--Bulletin . . . of New England Antiquities (Winter 1967)
The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire offers biographical and genealogical data on every family established in Maine and New Hampshire before 1699, an undertaking touching on many thousands of individuals. The limit of 1692 set for Savage"s Dictionary is here extended seven years to 1699, and as Vermont was then unsettled, this work amounts to a "Savage" for northern New England. In astonishing detail it lists the births, marriages, and deaths of the settlers through the third generation and sometimes into the fourth. Further genealogical information includes place of origin and places of residence, details of wills and deeds, court cases, and highlights of the individual"s life and career.
" . . . no comparable dictionary has been produced for other states. It remains unique."--Ralph Crandall, Genealogical Research in New England (1984)
