Hi All, Received this on another list and thought it might help someone. sharon -----Original Message----- From: linda angell <angell@gate.net> To: GAWARE-L@rootsweb.com <GAWARE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 3:57 PM Subject: [GAWARE-L] THIS MAY HELP SOMEONE Subject: [GA] GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND Resent-Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 18:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:41:15 -0700 From: "Adrianne" <kee46@email.msn.com> Organization: Microsoft Corporation To: GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com This is W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L!! Enjoy! Adrianne ========================== To Robert Kraft kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu re: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/11/journals/kraftpub/Genealogical (note this is a pretty old gopher site so Robert may not be at UPenn anymore) and to RIGENWEB-L, GenMassachusetts-D@rootsweb.com May 14, 1999 Since people are having problems downloading the 6.9 megabyte Savage Book gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/11/journals/kraftpub/Genealogical A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER. BY JAMES SAVAGE, transcribed and corrected by Robert Kraft 1994 assisted by Benjamin Dunning. [[Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994]] I am taking the liberty to split it up into its original 4 volumes and posting it to the books online website. http://genweb.net/~books/ http://genweb.net/~books/savage/ http://genweb.net/~books/savage/SavageVol1.txt A-C http://genweb.net/~books/savage/SavageVol2.txt D-J http://genweb.net/~books/savage/SavageVol3.txt K-R http://genweb.net/~books/savage/SavageVol4.txt S-Z each file is still large but less than 2 megabytes. Robert if you are still at UPenn I hope that is OK with you. PC users can get the full zipped 2MB SavageDictionary file at MomJ <momj@mindless.com> website: http://capecodmouse.com/ http://capecodmouse.com/temp/savages.zip Robert Kraft has some other interest material at his old gopher site re: gopher://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/11/journals/kraftpub/ including some nice poems and diary transcriptions. I should add that the Savage book is very old and out of date, and hard to read with all the abbreviations. Many families have had genealogies done on them, and many towns have later and better genealogies on various families. Also the Great Migration Project at NEHGS is the latest, most complete, fully referenced, and documented work of this type. It (GMP) covers only the immigrant family not the descendants, but references other works (if available) where descendants and ancestors can be found. Only families that arrived in or before 1633 are available now in the first 3 volumes, later volumes will have later arrivals. http://www.nehgs.org/salesdept/ne.htm The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 By Robert Charles Anderson, F.A.S.G. This three volume set is the most accurate, up-to-date information on over 900 early New England families by providing a consistent format for the information on each individual or family, which includes their port or country of origin, if known; the date and ship on which they arrived in New England, if known: the earliest known record of the individual or family; their first residence and subsequent residence, when known; return trips to their country of origin, whether temporary or permanent; and marriages, births, deaths and other important family relationships. To find the same information elsewhere, you'd have to refer to as many as 15 different books and dozens of historical records, if you could even gain access to them. Alphabetically organized by last name, it opens with an introoductory discussion of the methodology and sources used to develop the entries. There is also the "Phantom File," which includes names not covered in the main entries, along with the reason that they are not included. In some cases, it is because the individual actually arrived in New England at a later date than the period covered here. In other cases, it is because there is no primary evidence that he or she ever existed, as in the case of names that were once misread, then repeated incorrectly in the literature. This project reflects immense scholarly resourcefullness and is a tremendous source of helpful and pertinent genealogical information that should be of interest to the historian and the novice researcher alike. NEHGS. 1996. Index. 2,386pp. $125.00 Member price $112.50 Item #S2-84432 And of course the The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1994 fully indexed 9 CD ROM set is just an amazing resource for the serious New England genealogists. http://www.nehgs.org/salesdept/cdrom.htm Best Regards David C. 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