Family Archives CD #159 previously titled Family Histories #2, 1600s-1800s

This Family Archive CD contains electronically searchable text of the First and Third series of William Cutter's popular compendium New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. The eight volumes that make up these two distinct series contain about 2,000 genealogies and refer to approximately 20,000 related individuals.

Between 1913 and 1916, William Richard Cutter, one-time corresponding secretary of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, published four separate four-volume series of books entitled New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial. The First Series, published in 1913, featured genealogical and biographical essays on 1,000 New England families. The Second Series (1914), while containing some families not found in the 1913 series, is substantially similar to its predecessor. The Fourth Series (1916) is essentially a collection of biographies and does not command quite the same level of interest among genealogists as the other series. The Third Series (1915), however, is comprised of 1,000 additional genealogical and biographical essays not found in the First Series, and thus the First and the Third series--the two most genealogically significant series--are included in this Family Archive CD.

The content and arrangement of the two series are very similar. Each sketch provides the derivation of the surname featured in the sketch. The family history is then traced forward from the earliest known ancestor to the family member featured in the sketch, for whom, in turn, a biography is provided. This is followed, frequently, by additional genealogical lines linked to the subject of the essay. In general, the essays cover the length and breadth of New England ancestry from the colonial period through the early twentieth century, and they also serve to illustrate the influence of New England in the settlement of states to the west. While many of these sketches trace family lines back to 16th-century England and others brim with Mayflower connections and ties to the early Puritan settlers of the region, this collection is a totally unique assemblage of New England genealogies.

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Item Number:	401C-7159	$10.00
Media:	CD Windows
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Publisher:	Genealogical Publishing Co.
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