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American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress  preliminary catalogue      by Library of Congress.   Govt. print. off, 1910   HT    OpL   

An American ancestry      by Anne Warner,  1869-1913   Arc  

American ancestry : giving name and descent, in the male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence, A. D. 1776.  1887   HT

       vol 1    vol 4    vol 6    vol 7    vol 8    vol 9    vol 10    vol 12

American biographical and historical dictionary, containing an account of the lives, characters,...    by   William Allen, 1832   Goo  

American Biographical Notes: Being Short... By Franklin Benjamin Hough. 1875    Goo  

American biographical notes, being short notices of deceased persons, chiefly those not included in Allen's or in Drake's biographical dictionaries, gathered from many sources.    by Franklin B. Hough., 1822-1885.  1975    Goo    MoA  

American biography  [Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775     by Jeremy Belknap,   1744-1798   Arc  vol 1    vol 2    vol 3  

American biography and genealogy (Volume 1)  [ California -- Genealogy]    by Robert Jones   Burdette, 1844-1914, ed   Arc

American Bookmen: Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, of Certain Writers of the of the 19^th century     by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe   1898   Goo  

The American encyclopedia of history, biography & travel, ancient & modern history     by William O Blake,   1856   MoA  

The American genealogists, being a catalogue of family histories. A bibliography of American genealogy, or a list of the title pages of books and pamphlets on family history, published in America, from 1771 to date - Whitmore, William Henry, 1836-1900    Arc 

The American genealogical index     by Fremont Rider, ...  HT   

vol 7    vol 15   vol 16   vol 29    vol 31     vol 47    vol 107    vol 122     vol 134    vol 143    vol 150   vol 157

American genealogy : being a history of some of the early settlers of North America and their descendants, from their first emigration to the present time ... By Jerome B. Holgate.     1848   HT

American pioneers      by William Augustus Mowry, 1829-1917 Mowry, Blanche (Swett) 1870-    New York, Boston, [etc.] Silver, Burdett and co. c1905    OpL

Americans By Adoption: Brief Biographies of Great Citizens born in Foreign Lands      by Joseph Husband,   Boston 1930   Har   

Annual Obituary Notices of Eminent Persons who Have Died in the United States for 1857...   by Nathan Crosby     Goo  

Appletons ' cyclopædia of American biography;    1889       

          MoA     Goo   vol 1       vol 2      vol 3      vol 4 rev ed     vol 6      vol 7

        OpL  1887      vol 1       vol 2      vol 3      vol 4     vol 5     vol 6     vol 7    1901   vol 7

Authors at Home: Personal and Biographical Sketches of Well-known American Writers    by Jeannette L. (Jeannette Leonard) Gilder  1902  Goo   

Bibliographia Genealogica Americana: an Alphabetical   Index to American Genealogies   and Pedigrees...      by Daniel S Durrie, 1886   Goo   HT

Biographical & critical miscellanies    by William Hickling   Prescott, 1796-1859.    1851   MoA  

Biographical Dictionary [18,000+ people]    2000    On-Line

A Biographical Dictionary: Including more than 2000 articles of American biography     by   Rev John Lauris Blake,   1788-1857.     MoA   13 th ed 1859

Biographical Directory of American   Univ Houston  2004    UH

A biographical dictionary of fiddlers, including performers on the violoncello and double bass ...    by A. Mason Clarke W. Reeves, 1895    OpL

Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch , 1774-1989      by Robert Sobel   Goo

Biographical Memoirs.    by National Academy of Sciences ( U.S.)  1877   Goo    v 4 1902

The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day [illus.]    by Thomas William Herringshaw,   1888   link

Biographical Sketches    by Harriet Martineau, NY 1868  CMU

Biographical Sketches of Preeminent Americans    by Frederick G. Harrison   1893 Goo

Biographies Contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica      by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay   1860   Goo

Brief Biographies.     by Samuel Smiles.  1881  Goo

The cavalier dismounted: an essay on the origin of the founders of the thirteen colonies...    by William H. Whitmore., 1836-1900.   MoA  

A collection of American epitaphs and inscriptions, with occasional notes    by Timothy Alden,, 1771-1839.   Arc  vol 3

A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776      by I. Daniel Rupp,   Ig. Kohler, 1876    OpL

Colonial families of America     by Frances M. Smith,      F. Allaben genealogical company, 1909      OpL

Colonial families of the United States of America, in which is given the history, genealogy and armorial bearings of colonial families who settled in the American colonies from the time of the settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775;    edited by George Norbury Mackenzie, 1851-1919, 1907    HT

The compendium of American genealogy; first families of America; a genealogical encyclopedia of the United States, edited by Frederick A. Virkus under direction of Albert Nelson Marquis ...    by Frederick Adams Virkus,   1925   HT   vol 1   vol 2    vol 3   vol 4    vol 5    vol 6

Confessions, Trials, and Biographical Sketches of the Most Cold Blooded Murderers, who Have Been...     1844   Goo

Contemporary American composers   by Rupert Hughes   L. C. Page and company, 1900   OpL

The cottage cyclopedia of history & biography...persons, events, places, & things; chronological view of Amer.     by Edward M Pierce,     MoA

Crayon sketches and off-hand takings, of distinguished American statesmen, orators, divines, essayists, editors, poets, and philanthropists.    By George W. Bungay.,  1818-1892.     MoA

Crozier's General Armory: A Registry of American Families Entitled to pan Coat Armor by William Armstrong Crozier   1904   Goo   HT

The Cyclopædia of American Biography.     by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, Charles Dick, James Edward Homans, John William Fay, Herbert M. Linen, L. E. Dearborn,     Goo     1888   1900    

A Dictionary of American Authors      by Oscar Fay Adams , Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) Goo    1897     1904   1

Dictionary of American Biography.       Goo          1872     1879-supplement     1885      1897     1900  

Dictionary of National Biography     by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee   1890    Goo

The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America from the Earliest Period     by Henry Howard Brownell   1853    Goo

Everyday Biography: Containing a Collection of Brief Biographies Arranged for Every Day in the...     by Amelia J. Calver.   1889    Goo

Families directly descended from all the royal families in Europe (495 to 1932) and Mayflower descendants,      by their lineal descendant, Mrs. (Oscar Herbert) Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford ...    1932   HT

Famous Actor- Families in America    by Montrose Jonas Moses - Biography & Autobiography-   1906   Goo  

Famous discoverers and explorers of America; their voyages, battles, and hardships in traversing and conquering the unknown territories of a new world      by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston, 1877-1943    Boston: The Page company, 1917   OpL

The Founders: Portraits of Persons Born Abroad who Came to the Colonies in ...       by Charles Knowles Bolton  1919  Goo  

A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register.     by James Savage, 1784-1873.   John Farmer, Orrando Perry Dexter.   1860    

         Gnet        MoA   vol 1     vol 3     vol 4         Goo       vol 1      vol 2       vol 3. K-R      vol 4      cross index of the   4   vol               OpL   cross index        vol 1    vol 2      vol 3      vol 4

Genealogical records; manuscript entries of births, deaths and marriages taken from family Bibles, 1581-1917, ed. by Jeannie F. J. Robison and Henrietta C. Bartlett. by Robison, Jeannie Floyd Jones, 1853- 1917   HT

A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England: ... To which are Added Various ... by John Farmer. 1829   Goo

Half-Hours With the Best American Authors      by Charles Morris    Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company, 1891    vol 1    vol 2    vol 3   vol 4

Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of 1912 ...     by Thomas William Herringshaw    1913   Goo

Herringshaw 's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five ...    by Thomas William Herringshaw -1914   Goo

Index to American Genealogies: And to Genealogical Material Contained in All Works Such as Town histories ...   5^th ed     1900   Goo     Index       Supplement 1900 to 1908   HT  Supp

Indian wars of the West: biographical sketches of those pioneers who headed the western settlers… nbsp;   by Timothy Flint, 1780-1840.   1833   LC

Lives of celebrated Americans: comprising biographies of three hundred and forth eminent persons. with over 100 fine portraits.     by Benson John Lossing, 1813-1891 1869    Goo      MoA

The Loyal People of the North-west: A Record of Prominent Persons, Places and Events, During...    by Stella S. Coatsworth, C. B. Farwell. 1869   Goo

Memorial and biographical sketches [ Slavery   — Anti-slavery movements]   by   James Freeman Clarke,   Houghton, Mifflin, 1878   OpL

The Memories of Fifty Years: containing brief biographical notices of distinguished Americans,...    by William Henry Sparks.   1872    Goo        MoA

Men of our times; or, Leading patriots of the day.  Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher.    by Harriet Beecher Stowe., 1811-1896.   MoA 

Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries, Containing Biographical notices of...both sexes ...    10th ed  by Thompson Cooper 1879   Goo

Modern leaders,...biographical sketches     by Justin McCarthy, 830-1912    MoA

A New American Biographical Dictionary: Or, Rememberancer of the Departed Heroes, Sages, and...   by Thomas Jones Rogers .   1824    Goo

New England diaries , 1602-1800  a descriptive catalogue of diaries, orderly books and sea journals.     by Harriette Merrifield Forbes,   Perkins Press, 1923    OpL

New General Biographical Dictionary.     by Hugh James Rose.  London, 1857  Goo    Vol 9

Newspapers and Newspaper Writers in New England, 1787-1815: Read before the New England Historic,...     by Delano Alexander Goddard. 1880   Goo

The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American plantations 1600-1700.    1874 Goo  HT

Our album of authors, a cyclopedia of popular literary people,    by Frank M'Alpine.   Philadelphia ,  Chicago [etc.]: Elliott & Beezley, 1886.    MoA 

Our countrymen, or, Brief memoirs of eminent Americans. Illustrated by 103 portraits,   by Benson John Lossing, 1813-1891.     MoA  

Our Foreign-born Citizens: What they have done for America [biography]    by Annie E. S. Beard,    NY   1922   Har  

Our whole country: Past & present of the US, hist. & descriptive...biographical sketches…     by John Warner Barber, 1798-1885.   1861   MoA

Pioneers In Mental Health      by Robin Mckown    Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961    OpL

Pioneers in the settlement of America: from Florida in 1510 to California in 1849.     by William A. Crafts.    Samuel Walker and Co, 1876   OpL   vol 1   vol 2

Pioneers Of Modern Education 1600 1700      by John William   Adamson,    At The University Press, 1921   OpL   

Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America ... biographies.     by Evert A. Duyckinck ... Illus  by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, 1816-1878.   1872-74    MoA   vol 1    vol 2

Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical & historical memoirs.   by John A Livingston,    MoA

A registry of American families entitled to coat armor from the earliest to the present time.   by Crozier, William Armstrong, 1864-1913.  1904   HT

Reminiscences and Sketches      by Charles Forster Smith   1909   Goo

Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of   New England made in the years 1858, 1859, 1860...    by Samuel Gardner Drake.    1860  Arc  Goo

Trail Blazers Of Science Life Stories Of Some Half Forgotten Pioneers Of Modern Research    by Martin Gumpert   Funk & Wagnalls, 1936   OpL

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...     by  John Howard Brown, Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931.    1904   Goo

The '' Two Worlds'' portrait album of spiritual mediums, workers, and celebrities  Printed for the ''Two Worlds'' Pub. Co. by the Labour Press Society, 1897     OpL

Who Was Who: 5000 BC to Date: Biographical Dictionary 1914   Gut  

Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees    by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain,  1828-1914   Arc    vol 1    vol 2    vol 3    vol 4    vol 5

Who's it in America: Being a Sort O'biography of Certain Prominent Persons, with Some Facts...    by Charles Eustace Merriman. 1906    Goo

Who's who in Paris Anglo-American colony [also embassies]: a biographical dictionary ...‎      by William H. Ingram  1905    Goo

Younger American poets, 1830-1890;     by Douglas Brooke Wheelton  Sladen,  1856-1947. ed   Arc