Scots In the USA and Canada Part 3

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Huguenot Emigration to Virginia . . .
With an Appendix of Genealogies Presenting Data of the Fontaine,  Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and Other Families
Robert Alonzo Brock
This definitive work on the Huguenot emigration to Virginia  contains lists of refugees and emigrants and several passenger lists, the  longest and most valuable of which is a record of baptisms at Manakin-Town,  1721-1754, which gives the names of godparents (usually relatives) and other  genealogical data. An eighty-eight page Appendix contains a several-generation  genealogy of each of the families listed in the sub-title above, while the index  contains the names of approximately 4,000 individuals.
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What's in a Name?
Everything You Wanted to Know
Leonard R. N. Ashley
Hardbound volume totaling
265
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