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What’s New at AHGP – 9 Jan 2015

The following pages were added to AHGP this past week:

Confederate States Navy – A Brief History – Ships Photos

Kentucky

Kentucky Counties in 1874 – Adair – Anderson – Ballard – Barren – Bath – Boone – Bourbon.
Stations & Early Settlements of Kentucky
All extracted from Collins Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, Volume II, by Lewis Collins, Published by Collins & Company, Covington, Kentucky, 1874.

Louisiana

Sabine Parish Louisiana

Sabine Parish Biographies

  • Dr. J. C. Armstrong
  • A. D. Ashby
  • T. C. Armstrong
  • Marion S. Antony
  • Dr. Rezin Laurence Armstrong
  • Dr. R. L. Armstrong, Jr.
  • Senator John H. Boone
  • W. S. Brown
  • J. W. Byrd
  • Leslie Barbee
  • Oscar O. Cleveland
  • Julian Curtis, M. D.
  • John J. Curtis
  • Thomas Jefferson Cranford
  • Thomas G. Coburn
  • E. C. Dillon
  • W. B. Dillon, M. D.
  • D. H. Dillon, M. D.
  • Richard A. Fraser
  • Addison W. Estes
  • John B. Fuller
  • Rufus Sibley Gandy
  • Harvey M. Gandy
  • Florien Giauque
  • W. P. Good
  • David J. Holmes
  • Frank Hunter
  • Geo L. Jackson
  • George W. Heard
  • Dr. William Marvin Henry
  • A. B. Jordan
  • James E. Jordan
  • H. S. Kennedy
  • H. H. Kennedy
  • John L. Latham
  • William T. Latham
  • W. M. Knott
  • Alfred Litton
  • James F. Lucius
  • Pat Leone
  • Dr. James M. Middleton
  • Rev. T. J. Lites
  • George Robert Pierce
  • Walter S. Mitchell
  • L. J. Nash
  • Dr. S. E. Prince
  • John R. Parrott
  • G. W. Pugh
  • Amos L. Ponder
  • Silas D. Ponder
  • S. H. Porter
  • W. C. Roaten
  • W. B. Ross
  • S. J. Speight
  • Prof. O. L. Sanders
  • Judge Don E. SoRelle
  • S. S. Tatum
  • John W. Taylor
  • James A. Tramel
  • Dan Vandegaer
  • Leo Vandegaer
  • William H. Vandegaer
  • J. H. Williams

Sabine Parish Slave Owners

Sabine Rifles

Fort Jessup and the Frontier

All extracted from Belisle, John G. History of Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Sabine Banner Press. 1913.

Maine

Appleton Maine Register. At the turn of the century many towns in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire had small publications created called “Town Registers.” In each register often appeared a history of the town, a census of all the people and businesses in the town, vital records, and many advertisements. They were very similar to what we know as town directories. This register is known as the 1903 Appleton Maine Town Register.
Appleton Register – Surnames – 1903
Appleton Register – Deaths – 1892 – 1903

New York

Historical Old New York – A tour of the buildings with photos
Laight Street Baptist Church Marriages 1841-1850. These are records of marriages solemnized by the Rev. W. W. Everts, 1841-1850, at the Laight Street Baptist Church in New York City.
New York City Inhabitants with Occupations and Address – 1775

Dang those old towns!

Dang those old towns! I find that nothing is more irritating then having FamilyTreeMaker tell me a location doesn’t exist. But then I remind myself, FTM’s quirky database is built on the geographical location today, not the location at the time the event occurred. A lot of those older smaller post offices used as locations in the olden days have simply vanished.

Sometimes those small towns just disappeared from history. Maybe they were flooded out… maybe people just got up and left… often they simply changed their name. Today, if the remnants of the towns buildings still stand we call it a ghost town. But sometimes, the town just drops from the face of the earth, the railroad station that made it so, up and left, taking the towns people with it, the old wood buildings crumbled away over time, and now nothing remains to remind us of its location, except the records which bring it up, and old maps and gazetteers. AHGP has recently posted a gazetteer for 1843 on it’s website as a group project from several of its volunteers. There are a lot of ghost towns in it. Specific information that may help you identify where that dang old town actually was, with one caveat, it had to have existed in 1843.

So bookmark the book on their website, so that when you come across a town in the US that FTM tells you doesn’t exist, you can verify that it actually did – at least in 1843, and place the county with it. I have!

A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America
Containing a particular description of the states, territories, counties, districts, parishes, cities, towns, and villages mountains, rivers, lakes, canals, and railroads; with an abstract of the census and statistics for 1840, exhibiting a complete view of the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing, and literary condition and resources of the country.  Before going to the Table of Contents for this book, please read this page, if you don’t you will not understand part of the explanation of the States, Counties and Towns. BTW not sure if the people who prepared this book knew their alphabet, so when looking for counties, they are not always in alphetical order! They also used Ia for Indiana and Io or Iowa for Iowa.

Kinfolk Korner

Ramblins from the Web. Sometimes I stumble upon older web pages which haven’t been updated in a long while, but still have a treasure trove of genealogy information on them. I will begin to feature these in order that the useful genealogy they possess can be more widely circulated to other interested genealogists.

Books And Bibles

Cemeteries

Washington County, Arkansas

Miami County, Kansas

Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky

Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Jenks, Tulsa County Oklahoma Collection

The Lyle Ann Shults Collections

Creek County Oklahoma Collection

Fayette County, Kentucky Tax List – 1788
Fayette County was, at that time, part of Virginia

“The History Of The Cradle Land“
By T. H. Kinsella, LL. D., 1921
A History Of Miami County, Kansas (Partial)

Kinfolk Korner holds an eclectic collection of material for specific parts of the web which obviously have a genealogical connection to Susan Strain, it’s creator. It remains as part of the AHGP collection of location specific websites.

New at AHGP in March 2014

The American History and Genealogy Project (AHGP) are continuing their expansion adding several new county and state websites over the past month:

AHGP is a volunteer led project which is devoted to providing free genealogy data and information online. Contributions to the project are welcomed and encouraged!