Irish Settlers in America Both Volumes Hardback Genealogy Books

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Irish Settlers in America
Michael O'Brien
Two volumes, hardback  books totaling
1282
pages.The  books are in excellent condition. Michael J. O'Brien was the  historian and chief contributor to the Journal of the American Irish Historical  Society during its years of publication, 1898-1941. O'Brien's numerous articles  were united by a common objective--to explode the "Scotch-Irish myth," in effect  to demonstrate that the Catholic Irish were more numerous than the Ulster Irish  in the early days of immigration and more prominent in the affairs of state.  O'Brien's collected articles now form a reference work of encyclopedic  proportions--accessible, comprehensive, and convenient--and they touch upon the  entire spectrum of colonial American history. In the 132 articles assembled  here, O'Brien lists no fewer than
25,000
pioneers and settlers, his information deriving from both manuscript and printed  sources. The two-volume consolidation also contains a new preface, a descriptive  table of contents, and indexes.
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Softbound volume totaling
165
pages. Book is in new condition. Per the publisher.
These two works, now reprinted for handy reference in a single  volume, index over 40,000 references to surnames contained in the printed  registers of English parishes during the years 1601 and 1602. While the two  indexes themselves merely list the surname and the parish register(s) where it  occurred in 1601 and 1602, and the location of the register at the time of  original publication, researchers must realize that these reference are of  considerable value inasmuch as the parish records to which they refer are  nothing less than early 17th-century registers of baptisms, marriages, and  burials. The potential importance of this combined work for American descendants  of 17th-century English colonists, therefore, can scarcely be exaggerated. For a  great many people, then, these references will tell from which parish in England  an ancestor migrated, which parish records to examine, and what other branches  of the family existed at that time. (Our publication commences with a prefatory
List  of Parishes Indexed
, which serves as a key to the references to counties and  parishes after each name in the index.)
"The admirable arrangement of this work deserves especial mention  . . . shows at a glance in what printed registers . . . the surname is to be  found."--
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
, Vol. LXIV,  No. 4.
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