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From: DOROTHY URBAITIS <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Book - Genealogical & Memorial History of state ofNJ
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:33:25 -0600
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Hi, Susan--

If you click on the URL given for bigtreebooks.com in the original
message, you'll probably be able to see all of the names down to "Z." In
case that doesn't work, I took a look for you and found Opdyke, Green
and Snyder. No Carroll, Burd or Arnwine variations, though.

Dorothy Strimple Urbaitis



Susan Pena wrote:

> I would like to know if the following names are in those books??
>
> Carroll (Carrell)
> Opdyke (Updike) (Opdycke)
> Burd - Warren County
> Arnwine
> Green
> Synder (Snider) - Warren County
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Moore"
> <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Book - Genealogical & Memorial History of
> state of NJ
>
>
>> The Hunterdon County Library has a copy of the four volumes of this
>> book in
>> its New Jersey Reference collection.
>>
>> At 01:09 AM 3/9/05 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone ever heard of the following book, or know where it can be
>>> seen?
>>
>> At $165, it's too expensive to purchase.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://bigtreebooks.com/info.asp?BTB=BTB129843CC&Type=&Cat=&SubCat=&SubCat2=
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> GENEALOGICAL AND MEMORIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, A
>>> Record of
>>
>> the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the
>> Founding of a Nation - BTB129843CC
>>
>>>
>>> Many of the essays begin with an explanation of the geographical
>>> origin or
>>
>> derivation of the familys surname, with a number of them going back
>> to the
>> 16th or 17th century. The sketches then trace the line forward from the
>> oldest known ancestor to the principal subject of the essay. This is
>> followed by a detailed biography of that person, often with his
>> photo, as
>> well as an enumeration of collateral lines related to the principal
>> subject. The index at the back of the final volume identifies some 4,800
>> descendants of the main families listed below, which, in the aggregate,
>> constitute, arguably, the greatest collection of New Jersey
>> genealogies in
>> a single place. Aaronson, Abbott, Abeel, Abrams, Ackerson, Ackley,
>> Adams,
>> Agar, Albright, Alden, Alexander, Allen, Allinson, Anderson, Andrews,
>> Angell, Antrim, Apgar, Applegate, Armstong, Arrowsmith, Atkinson,
>> Austin,
>> Bacheller, Bacon, Badgley, Baer, Bailey, Baird, Baker, Baldwin,
>> Ballantine,
>> Bannard, Barker, Barnert, Barnes, Barrett,!
>>
>>> Barringer, Barron, Barrows, Bartlett, Bartram, Bassett, Bateman,
>>> Bayard,
>>
>> Beach, Beam, Beekman, Beldon, Benjamin, Bennett, Bentley, Bergen, Berry,
>> Betts, Beugless, Beyer, Biddle, Bigelow, Binder, Bisbing, Bishop,
>> Bissell,
>> Black, Blair, Blaisdell, Blanchard, Bleecker, Bleything, Blodgett,
>> Blunt,
>> Bodine, Bogert, Boggs, Bogle, Bonnell, Booraem, Booth, Borton, Bothwell,
>> Bouker, Bowen, Bowne, Boylan, Boyle, Brady, Branin, Bray, Brick, Briggs
>>
>>>
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