Reminder for folks who want to join our Yankee Swap this weekend. Have a nice Thanksgiving! Sharon http://www.GenealogyFair.com Special New Brunswick event at the GenealogyFair Yankee Swap and Christmas Fair on Friday November 23 from 10am-2pm. ================================================================= We will feature the New Brunswick records and resource collection - including Dan Johnson's wonderful extracts of Vital Statistics from N.B. Newspapers (see http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcarlet/nb_newspapers.htm for more info), plus southern NB county census and Loyalist records - from Sharon Howland's private collection. The $5 registration fee for everyone who wishes to do research in this collection will be donated to continue the work of the WKRP (Washington/Charlotte Kounty Records Preservation) newsletter and Washington County, Maine Records Preservation Fund (see http://hometown.aol.com/shwkrp/shwkrp.html for more info). ===================================================== We will also have more goodies all weekend! Stephen White's wonderful DICTIONNAIRE G�N�ALOGIQUE DES FAMILLES ACADIENNES 1636 to 1714 (see http://acadian-home.org/), Yvon Cyr's wonderful Acadian Genealogy CDs - (see http://www.acadian.org/) French and other Canadian Research resources from Quintin Publications including Tanguay's Dictionnaire genealogique des familles canadiennes (see http://www.quintinpublications.com Eastern Township (especially Megantic and Stanstead), Nova Scotia (especially Lunenburg, Annapolis and Antigonish) and PEI histories. The complete collection of Paul Bunnell's Loyalist books (Research Guide to Loyalist Ancestor: A Directory To Archives, Manuscripts, Published And Electronic Sources; The New Loyalist Index vols I-II; Thunder over New England : Benjamin Bonnell, the Loyalist; The House of Robinsons: The Robinsons of Rhode Island and the History of the Robinson and Son Oil Company of Baltimore (see more info at http://www.publib.edmonton.ab.ca/Genealogy/Loyalist_sources.cfm). The FTM Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish Immigrants to North America, 1803-1871 Family Archive CD, the "Irish Families Great and Small" book, several Irish Famine reference books (Irish 1798 REBELLION: An Illustrated History by Thomas Bartlett, Irish - The Great Famine : Ireland's Potato Famine 1845-51 by John Percival, MAPPING THE GREAT IRISH FAMINE: A Survey of the Famine Decades by Liam Kennedy, Paul S. Ell, E. M. Crawford and L. A. Clarkson ), 1880 Harper's arricle on the Arran Islands, 1833 Dublin newspapers (including Castles of Ireland Illustrated, customs and literature), Irish townland name listings and the 1901 Ireland county map reproductions - 18x24 inch, they are the most detailed Irish county maps ever printed (for Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare , Cork , Derry - Londonderry , Donegal , Down, Dublin, Fermanagh , Galway, Kerr, Kildare, Kilkenny , Laois - Queens , Leitrim , Limerick , Longford , Louth , Mayo , Meath , Monaghan , Offaly - Kings, Roscommon , Sligo , Tipperary , Tyrone , Waterford , Westmeath , Wexford , Wicklow) with all Baronies, Parishes, Village, Antiquites, Emesnes, market towns, mountains, rivers, forts, Roman Catholic Churches, Castles, Abbeys, Round Towers, Lakes, Roads, steam railways, canals, barracks, bridges, harbors, points, rocks, chapels, cemeteries, schools and stations plus thousands of townland location names in printed reference indexes. See other Ireland place name references at http://www.tiara.ie/places.htm and if you haven't consulted the "Missing Friends" series, it is right down the street at the Waltham Public Library. Planters and Pioneers resources include newsletters from the Acadia University organization and the wonderful "New England Planters in the Maritime Provinces of Canada- 1759-1800, Bibliograhy of Primary Sources compiled by: Judith A. Norton" which details records contents and locations, as well as "Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Planter Nova Scotia", edited by Margaret Conrad(see http://ace.acadiau.ca/history/plpubs.htm ) The "Ships & Seafarer's of Atlantic Canada" CD, an every name index and how to use it to find other records (see an overview and some statistics on this great resource of 500,000 records for worldwide mariner resources http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/S&SCdstats.htm ) Foreign Protestant resources (see http://gallica.bnf.fr/FFonds_Tables/F006/FM0066017.htm and http://www.kopower.com/~jimchstn/timeline.htm ), as well as Scots resources (Edinburgh 1845 and 1880s newspapers, maps and history texts) - see http://www.globalgazette.net/gazsd/gazsd12.htm for an overview of settlers and resources. You can also watch the videos and check the research volumes from the 1999 Boston States Migrations Fair for clues on the general migration patterns over the centuries, ship lists resources, MA town and railroad history maps(see http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com/Videoflyerdetail.htm) Other features of our Christmas GenealogyFair Weekend November 23-25 are a Yankee Swap and daily research planning workshops! Learn how to put those stacks of working papers in order and put a research plan together at our Research Organization Workshops - 10 am Friday November 23, 10 am Saturday November 24 and 12 pm Sunday November 25, 2001. Trade your old research books with others at the Christmas GenealogyFair Yankee Swap - Friday November 23 11 am - 5 pm , Saturday November 24 11 am - 5 pm and Sunday November 25,2001 1 pm - 6 pm. Register your research and swap item interests http://www.geocities.com/sharon_sergeant/ChristmasFairform.htm Join us at the Christmas GenealogyFair Weekend, 233 Lake Street, Waltham MA 02451 If you can't join us in person, you can send a Wanted Poster and your research interests in your place. Sincerely, Sharon Sergeant GenealogyFair.com ------------------------------------------------ email: info@genealogyfair.com voice: 781-209-8861 web: http://www.GenealogyFair.com ------------------------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com