I'm trying to find information on John LOW, Arthur HOWLAND's son-in-law and Arthur's grandson-in-law, Walter JOYCE. John and Walter didn't generate much in the way of records and they may have been Quakers. thanks, Charles -----Original Message----- From: Dale H. Cook <radiotest@juno.com> To: MAPLYMOU-L@rootsweb.com <MAPLYMOU-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:55 PM Subject: RE: [PLY/MA] Scituate, MA--Compiled Genealogies? >At 02:48 PM 6/12/2003 -0400, Barb Pahlow wrote: > >>To me a compiled genealogy is like what you would see in an issue of the >>NEHGS register, with the generations broken out, is that right? > >Barb - > >That's one format of compiled genealogy, known as "Register Format." >Variations of that format are used by other publications. Another format is >"Record Format," used in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. > >Many 19th-century town histories contain family registers which predate >those formats. I would consider them collections of compiled genealogies >for the early families of those towns. Their formats vary from one town >history to another as there were no generally accepted standards for >formatting genealogical information at the time, especially for the books >that predate NEHGR (1847) such as Deane's Scituate (1831) and Mitchell's >Bridgewater (1840). > >I think Deane would prove useful to Charles, especially since the scans are >online. Of course, this is a very old work, probably contains a number of >errors, and should be used with caution. > > >Dale H. Cook >Member, NEHGS >USGenWeb Plymouth County MA Towns Host: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~macbrock/sites.html > > >==== MAPLYMOU Mailing List ==== > ====MAPLYMOU-L/D Mail List===== > +-+ Owners = List Members +-+ > =Administrator Frederick M. Dittmar= > ====== fred@dittmar.net ====== > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >