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From: "Wendy Carver" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Book - Genealogical & Memorial History of state of NJ
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:21:24 -0500


You may want to check to see if your local library system offers Heritage
Quest - - the book available on line there.

>
>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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