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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The primary impetus for most early-day legitimations seems to have been the need to confer rights of heirship for stepchildren or for children born out of wedlock. These records are taken primarily from the Minutes of the County Courts. Entries from the Circuit Court are so identified. Those entries taken from the legislative records are labels TPA (Tennessee Private Acts).
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Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Burdened with bundles and baskets, a million or more immigrant children passed through the often grim halls of Ellis Island. Having left behind their homes in Europe and other parts of the world, they made the voyage to America by steamer. Some came with parents or guardians. A few came as stowaways. But however they traveled, they found themselves a part of one of the grandest waves of human migration that the world has ever known. Children of
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Language
English
Description
"West Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices, 1821-1889 marks the third and concluding volume in Dr. Alan N. Miller?s series of extractions of Tennessee apprenticeship records. Just as he did for the 29 counties of East Tennessee and 35 counties of Middle Tennessee, Dr. Miller has sifted through the apprenticeship records of West Tennessee and brought them within the reach of the genealogy researcher. This third volume of Tennessee's "forgotten...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The author's narrative account of the history of St. Joseph's Indian Normal School begins at a young age. Drawn to the structure over a period of decades, she is eventually compelled to look into the school's records, culminating in 2016, with granted access to its archives. What follows is a condensed story of some of the information about the history of St. Joe's. While nothing can make amends for the boarding school era, there can be no potential...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"For this book, Dr. Phillips has indexed seventy-five years of handwritten records from Charles County, Maryland (1658-1733) for the first time. The records are nearly complete and most have never been transcribed; 872 'servants' without indentures were brought to this country, and 333 were owned by the judges on the very court that sentenced them to slavery. This book contains three indexes, with detailed abstracts, to servants with or without indentures...
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