DECEMBER 2022 ISSUE
HISTORY & GENEALOGY BOOKS
TO LOVE AND GIVE
Here is the 12th annual December issue of First Friday Genealogy with Sassy Jane with links to books I've enjoyed this year that can help your research and provide context for your ancestors' lives.
These titles have something to offer to genealogists, history lovers, and even that person who seems difficult to buy for.
And whether you've been naughty or nice this year, treat yourself to something that will help your family history research.
All That She Carried is a moving story of enslavement, heartbreak, and love. Nine-year-old Ashley, about to be sold away, was given a sack enslaved mother, Rose, as she Rose put a folded dress, three handfuls of pecans, and a braid of her hair, and “told her” — Rose’s words recorded in red stitches on the bag by her descendant — “It be filled with my Love always.” Ashley never saw her mother again.
Noted historian Tiya Miles weaves a lyrical and restorative account of three generations of Black women.
This handbook notes when and what kinds of UK records are available in a timeline format. It's especially strong on "migration, extreme weather, disasters, epidemics, wars, non-conformist religions, taxation, transport, the armed services, famine" and more.
Changes to BMD certificates and registers are also noted, plus UK censuses and the facts they collected. Name indexes from earlier records such as muster rolls and poll taxes are also included.
If you have early New England ancestors, this classic book on women's lives in Colonial America is essential reading.
Noted historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich balances the reality of the women's responsibilities with the idealized models to which women were held at that time.
Our early New England female ancestors fulfilled so many duties and expectations. Ulrich's book helps us understand the lives of our female ancestors in colonial New England.
Do you have relatives who want to record stories from their lives, but need help getting started? Or perhaps you have heard the same stories over and over again from certain relatives 😁 and are hoping to hear something new.
The Book of Myself: A Do-It-Yourself Autobiography in 201 Questions provides questions and prompts to elicit memories, plus a place to record them. If you have a grandchild who loves history, a copy of this book that they can use to engage their grandparents, or even great-grandparents, is a great gift.
In Shaking the Family Tree, author Buzzy Jackson, an "amateur genealogist" visits a family graveyard, sails on a genealogy cruise, and tests her DNA.
All pretty standard, but then Buzzy meets other driven genealogists, including a woman who "spends her free time documenting the cemeteries of Colorado ghost towns."
Through Jackson's research, she discovers the true meaning of family and why we genealogists do what we do.
Yes, the British Monarchy as much to answer for; yet the fact remains that Elizabeth was exemplary. Of the many biographies flooding the market, Hardman's deserves your attention and his subject our respect.
I've embarked on a major update of the Sassy Jane Genealogy eBooks. Just finished are two of my most popular titles, now available as updated and revised e-books:
