{"id":178,"date":"2008-07-16T13:55:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/16\/the-everton-handybook-for-genealogists-and-its-imitators-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T13:55:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:55:16","slug":"the-everton-handybook-for-genealogists-and-its-imitators-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/16\/the-everton-handybook-for-genealogists-and-its-imitators-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Everton Handybook for Genealogists and its Imitators–Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two principal imitators are:\u00a0 1.\u00a0 Ancestry’s Redbook:\u00a0 American State, County, and Town<\/strong> Sources.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Revised Edition 1992.\u00a0 Edited by Alice Eichholz; maps by William Dollarhide.\u00a0\u00a0 The revised edition corrected some chapters, expanded others, and completely replaced–with new authors–some chapters.\u00a0 Reviewed in this issue of the Genealogy News Sheet.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists:\u00a0 The Essential Guide to American<\/strong><\/em> County and Town Sources.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 2004.\u00a0 Edited by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Erin Nevius.\u00a0 Described as “the most comprehensive, easy-to-use guide for researching your family history.”\u00a0 To be reviewed in a subsequent episode.<\/p>\n

Each chapter has an author–22 of them.\u00a0 And the introduction acknowledges the contributions of an additional 156 professional genealogists, state archivists, and their staff members to the overall accuracy of the contents for this revised work.<\/p>\n

Thirteen record and resource categories are included in each chapter:\u00a0 Vital Records, Census Records, Background Sources, Maps, Land Records, Probate Records, Court Records, Tax Records, Cemetery Records, Church Records, Military Records, Periodicals, Newspapers, and Manuscript Collections, Archives, Libraries and Societies.\u00a0 Special Focus Categories–Immigration, Naturalization, and Ethnic Groups pertinent to the state–consider other important recommendations.<\/p>\n

The county-by-county charts include specific dates when record categories begin as well as the date the jurisdiction was created and its parent counties.\u00a0 There are few website URLs because few counties had websites in 1992.\u00a0 This is the advantage that the Handybook<\/em> has–more frequent editions where essential changes can be recorded.<\/p>\n

What the Red Book Gives to Your Genealogy<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Red Book<\/em> provides expanded jurisdictional coverage.\u00a0 For example, South Carolina includes “counties in districts” and ‘townships and parishes.”\u00a0 With dates.\u00a0 With standard county identifications for each district, township, and parish–so you know where to seek the records.<\/p>\n

North Carolina includes discontinued counties and references where their\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 jurisdiction and records are assigned.\u00a0 There is little direction to us concerning the counties in districts in this state.<\/p>\n

Virginia includes a description of the various courts and their jurisdiction with the courthouses where district courts records are deposited.\u00a0 The county-by-county chart includes independent cities and which counties\/cities have suffered record loss.\u00a0 There is no reference to the work of Mary B. Kegley, F.B. Kegley, or Lewis Summers for Southwestern Virginia.\u00a0 [see my virginiagenealogyblog.com, post 23 April 2008, “Name Lists for Virginia Frontier.”\u00a0 I judge most Virginia guides by whether they list these writers.\u00a0 You can’t research the Virginia Frontier without their early settler lists and marriages.]<\/p>\n

Differences in coverage are normal in a work with multiple authors.\u00a0 Even when they follow the same basic outline with the same record categories.\u00a0 And all of the chapters are good, useful guides to your county and state of genealogy interest.<\/p>\n

What is generally missing in these chapters is a discussion of the unique research<\/em> challenges<\/em> you will encounter in these counties and states.\u00a0 Some authors have anticipated your research needs and what they, themselves in their own research experience, have found significant.\u00a0 These items they include:\u00a0 Virginia omits references for Native American backgrounds,\u00a0 and includes Black Americans.\u00a0 North Carolina omits the large-scale German populations who settled the back country–some who came through Pennsylvania and Virginia and some who came through South Carolina directly from Europe.\u00a0 It includes an expanded section on Native Americans.<\/p>\n

My recommendation:<\/strong>\u00a0 Always use the Red Book<\/strong><\/em> chapters along with the Handybook<\/em><\/strong> chapters for your states of interest.\u00a0 They complement each other.\u00a0 Their maps supply different details.\u00a0 Their county-by-county charts provide supplementary facts.\u00a0 The record suggestions include annotations that are helpful in determining which to search when. \u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com<\/p>\n

PS\u00a0 I have finally read the comments and the links that have come through for past issues of this Genealogy News Sheet.\u00a0 <\/em>They are now posted online and some of them are quite provocative.\u00a0 You might find a review of these past issues relevant to your own thoughts and research objectives.<\/p>\n

PPS\u00a0 As you may recall, my first priority for my time has been to complete the research projects I contracted for before my husband Alma became ill.\u00a0 And I have made incredible progress.\u00a0 I still have a few projects to finish, including 2 family histories.<\/p>\n

PPSS\u00a0 Once I finish these outstanding (and outstanding) research assignments, I will begin to publicize my research services more.\u00a0 Watch this blog for a listing of the research completed, including new projects I have been asked by readers to take on.\u00a0 I spend 60-80 hours each week doing research for clients.\u00a0 It is the most rewarding work I do outside of my family.\u00a0 Each day I awake alert and ready to take on the research where I left it off.\u00a0 And putting together a family that has been a 20-year puzzle to solve is especially fun!\u00a0 Many thanks to all of you for your confidence in my research skills.\u00a0 AE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two principal imitators are:\u00a0 1.\u00a0 Ancestry’s Redbook:\u00a0 American State, County, and Town Sources.\u00a0 Revised Edition 1992.\u00a0 Edited by Alice Eichholz; maps by William Dollarhide.\u00a0\u00a0 The revised edition corrected some chapters, expanded others, and completely replaced–with new authors–some chapters.\u00a0 Reviewed in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}