GO TO: GENEALOGY and HISTORY, at: http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/geneal.htm LOOK FOR: Hereditary Society Blue Book and Lineage Societies. Examples: Mayflower home page has information on the Mayflower, descendants and documents related to the Mayflower. . . . For Northern California Resource Information for Genealogy and Family History, review: UCD Melvyl® Library Information & Links http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/archive2.htm#shields The Melvyl® System Catalog Database currently shows 1033 items for the word "genealog*". They have on site, within the Shields Library, Internet Electronic access to the Biography and genealogy master index. BOOK REFERENCES (secondary sources): Browning, Charles Henry. Some Colonial Dames of royal descent; pedigrees showing the lineal descent from kings of some members of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, and of the Order of the Crown. Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1969. 360 p. 23 cm. Language: English UCD Shields CS55.B88 Poppenheim, Mary Barnett, 1866-. The history of the United Daughters of the Confederacy,, by Mary B. Poppenheim-- Maude Blake Merchant ... [and others] Ruth Jennings Lawton, chairman; under authority granted in convention assembled at Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1925. Richmond, Garrett and Massie, incorporated [c1938] xi p., 1l., 226 p. front., plates, ports. 23 1/2 cm. Language: English UCD Shields E483.5.A27 "A legal resident of the State of California can join the UCD Alumni Association and become a sustaining member. Check out the web site for location at: UCD Alumni Association. Currently, for $40/year, the UCD Alumni Association card allows any person holding it to enter any of the nine UC Library systems statewide, such as UCD, UCLA, UCB, etc., and have individual library cards made from each library. This gives free general library borrowing privileges, with restrictions as applied at local campus sites." WHAT'S NEW ON THE BOOKSHELF: The Great Libraries (From Antiquity to the Renaissance - 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600) The first English edition, copyright 2000, by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, is an excellent reference oversize book of 563 pages; previously printed in Athens, Greece, by Epiphania S.A. [Z 723 S7313 2000] Knowledge concerning ancient libraries reveals "books" as articles of trade, with transition between individuals, rulers and depositories. Encyclopædia Britannica mentions in the history of England and Great Britain, that during Roman times, "The administrative capitals had regular street grids, a forum with basilica (public hall), public baths, and temples; a few had theatres and amphitheatres, too." "Provincial libraries were magnificent buildings, sometimes surpassing most of the imperial libraries in Rome . . ." Additionally, during the Roman Period, there were libraries in bath-houses. "The other library associated with Trajan was located in the baths named after him and was the earliest example of a bath-house library. {104}" [page 106, Ch. 6] . . . "they were equipped with training facilities for wrestling and all kinds of other athletic sports as well as bilingual libraries, to encourage the Romans to spend some of their leisure hours . . . on intellectual and literary pursuits." "Hadrian founded at least three libraries" and "HADRIAN'S WALL is the most important monument built by the Romans in Britain." http://www.hadrians-wall.org/ This book includes information on individual collections, such as "The Library of the Monastery of St. John on Patmos". [page 267, Ch. 13] "Deep in its heart lies its library, one of the oldest libraries in the world in terms of continued existence in one place, which still possesses a catalogue of the original nucleus of the library of its founder, St. Christodoulos"; aka John. The catalogue of c. 1350, puts the number of books in the library at 380, "and the monks were reading Xenophon, Diodorus Siculus and Plato. {14}" Writings of Diodorus contain some chronological markers, etc. that are also found in the monastic Irish Medieval Royalty Genealogies. "Problems were created for the library by the difficulty of enforcing the lending rules when books were lent to dozens of other monasteries and the Patmos monastery's own dependencies. By the fifteenth century the rules were no longer being strictly observed; it frequently happened that books were borrowed and not returned, and the number of classical works diminished in geometric progression. However, these losses were offset by handsome donations to the library, mainly from monasteries in Asia Minor which were trying to save their valuable possessions from the depredations of the Turks. {16}" For those interested in Women's Studies, Stewart Baldwin notes "The Ban-Shenchus", . . . "is a twelfth century work, existing in both verse and prose versions, which names a large number of Irish women, along with their parents, husbands, and children, and is an important primary source for the identities of the mothers of pre-Norman Irish leaders." http://www.rootsweb.com/~medieval/llywelyn.htm Comparison of queens in the Banshenchas with queens in the Annals of Ulster, done by Anne Connon, is just one of the sub-sections of Seanchas, Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honour of Francis J. Byrne; Edited by Alfred P. Smyth; Four Courts Press Ltd; copyright 2000. Respectfully yours, Tom Tinney, Sr. http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~vctinney/ Genealogy and History Internet Web Directory Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] Who's Who In The West, 1998/1999 Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions] ---------------------------------------------- Sandra Harris wrote: > Colonial Dames; Mayflower Society; Daughters of the Confederacy > > Does anyone know of websites to discover information on members of these > societies? > > Sandra