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More Than a Biography This book illustrates the role that compassion, conviction and courage can play in overcoming the disappointments and obstacles of life. It further illustrates through one man's life how by faith and trust in the One who rules over all deception, discrimination and greed...

Alexandria. Few other cities held such a thriving, exotic mix of people and faiths. For almost a century, it was by-word for culture, glamour and luxury. The Suez Crisis shattered this idyll. In 1956 Nassar expelled the Europeans, including the Caruanas and Curmis. This account tells how they found their way to Australia and brought something of old Alexandria to a new land.

It is my desire to share my genealogical accomplishments with anyone who feels the deep passion which comes from asking the questions, who are my ancestors and where is my extended family? I hope to lead readers down my path of exploration, where I found family members who were always out there, but...

“Discover Your Medieval Roots” celebrates a tribe which emerges from the Dark Ages forming 400 family names associated with DNA Celtic Tribe R1b-L513. This DNA marker was first discovered in 2011. Several million people carry this DNA marker today. Check out, “About this Author” for the full...

"This book is a treasure trove of family and wider Quaker social history...we should be very grateful for Antony Barlow's work and the affirmation it brings of a Quaker way of life and a Quaker set of values that continue to offer so many of us strength and hope" Ben Dandelion. " This...

In The Ancestry of David Bracewell, Carey Bracewell describes the fourteen-generation lineage traced from Edmund Bracewell, who was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, c. 1510, to Careys son, David Bracewell, who was born in Texas in 1964. He outlines the career of the first American Bracewell,...

"A Family Like a Prairie." Our families and communities serve as the threshold we cross into our lives. Whether it’s a metaphorical threshold or the actual physical threshold that marks our front door, the crossing informs who we choose to become. This memoir is a series of eighteen stories,...

A cousin could not find a Waymouth ancestor born earlier than 1727.In my innocence, I wondered why. That is how and why this book came to be written.Who begat who is of less interest than where they lived, what they did and what they thought and believed. The story starts in the 13th Century...

In 1969, just a few years before my grandmother passed away, she presented my brother, my sister, and me each with a loose leaf notebook of photocopied letters that my mother had sent to her from France while we lived there in a suburb of Paris in 1959 and 1960. The binder sat on various bookshelves...

This is a treatise on family history and is primarily about three gentlemen and a woman. They represent ancestors, from three different generations, who nobly carried their family torch and established high standards to which succeeding generations would aspire. These ancestors respectively, are two...

Easy Family History takes the stress out of family history research. It guides readers through the most important information sources for family historians in the UK including family documents, official records, archives and websites. From what to expect on a birth cert to how to use newspaper archives...

For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and other county officials kept are invaluable sources for local and family historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is the...

In The Distancers, seven generations worth of joy and heartache is artfully forged into a family portrait that is at once universally American yet singularly Lee Sandlin's own. From the nineteenth century German immigrants who settled on a small Midwestern farm, to the proud and upright aunts and...

Mississippis Civil War Generals covers the lives of the forty-six Mississippians who reached the rank of general during the four-year struggle that divided the nation. Extensive primary source documents are used in conjunction with post-war documents to provide insight into the contributions of each...