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  • We Are Already Ghosts
    Kit Dobson
    The Briscoe-MacDougall family retire to their lakeside cabin each summer. This annual vacation is at time to unwind and refresh, a time to relax away from the hustle and bustle of city life.We are Already Ghosts joins the Briscoe-MacDougalls in the summer of 1996 and returns to them at five-year intervals. William, Clare, Helen, Michael, John, Doug, Mike, Jéanne, Françoise, Cel...
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    40,03 €

  • American Vital Records from the 'Gentleman’s Magazine, ' 1731-1868
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    'The Gentleman’s Magazine' was founded in London in 1731. The first publication of its type, it featured a broad mix of news, essays, poetry, parliamentary debates, book reviews, and antiquarian notes. For the genealogist it is an absolute treaure-house of useful data. From the beginning the magazine published notices of births, deaths, and marriages, enabling people throughout...
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    45,78 €

  • American Data from the Aberdeen Journal, 1748-1783
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Scottish newspapers represent one of the most fruitful sources for genealogical research available, albeit an overlooked one. One important newspaper was the 'Aberdeen Journal,' which was founded in 1747 and published continuously until 1922. For this book Mr. Dobson has culled all the genealogical references to the Americas made in 'Scottish' sources appearing in the 'Aberdeen...
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    20,82 €

  • Scottish-American Gravestones, 1700-1900
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Prior to 1855, gravestone inscriptions represent almost the sole source of death information in Scotland. After that date, Scottish law mandated the systematic recording of births, marriages, and deaths throughout the nation, while prior to 1855 Scottish parish registers tended to focus on baptismal and marriage entries, to the virtual exclusion of death records. The only other...
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    20,86 €

  • Irish Emigrants in North America
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Emigration from Ireland to the Americas can be said to have started in earnest during the early eighteenth century. In 1718, the first successful emigration from Ireland to New England took place, laying the foundation for the large-scale settlement of colonial America by the 'Scotch-Irish.' While details on emigrants of the 18th century are difficult to locate, emigration list...
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    20,76 €

  • Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    For this book, David Dobson, who has previously published the most extensive lists of Scottish immigrants to America during the colonial and early Federal periods in print, extends his coverage of Scottish immigration to the period 1825-1875. The Scottish expatriates identified by the compiler are arranged alphabetically and invariably give, besides the individual’s full name, ...
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    27,22 €

  • Scottish Quakers and Early America, 1650-1700
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Mr. Dobson continues with his series of booklets pertaining to unexplored aspects of Scottish genealogy. 'Scottish Quakers and Early America' identifies members of the Society of Friends in Scotland prior to 1700 and the Scottish origins of many of the Quakers who settled in East Jersey in the 1680s ...
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    17,23 €

  • Jacobites of Angus 1689-1746
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Following the Glorious Revolution, the supporters of the House of Stuart, known as Jacobites, could be found throughout the British Isles, but they were most numerous in the Highlands and North East Scotland, particularly among those of the Roman Catholic faith. The county of Angus, or Forfarshire, made a significant contribution to the Jacobite armies of 1715 and 1745. Dobson ...
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    13,21 €

  • Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Scottish soldiers played an important role in defending the American colonies and in settling them. Around the middle of the 18th century, the British government began to dispatch Highland Regiments, such as Fraser’s Highlanders, the Black Watch, and Montgomery’s Highlanders, to America. The French and Indain War of 1756-1763, in particular, led to significant recruitment in Sc...
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    16,91 €

  • American Data from the Records of the High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland, 1675-1800
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Scotland’s High Court of the Admiralty, which was established in the mid-15th century, had jurisdiction over civil, criminal, and prize matters upon the high seas. The earliest extant records of the Admiralty Court date from 1657, and they are housed in the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh. For this book, the indefatigable David Dobson has culled the records of the Hi...
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    25,22 €

  • Scots in Poland, Russia and the Baltic States, 1550-1850
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    For this book, Mr. Dobson combed through more than forty manuscript collections and published works to arrive at a list of 2,500 Scots who settled in the Baltic. Arranged alphabetically, the entries furnish the individual’s name with variants, a place of residence in Eastern Europe, the date of the record, and its source. Given the widely disparate character of the subject mat...
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    30,93 €

  • Irish Emigrants in North America [1775-1825]
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    This work is a consolidated reprint of two pamphlets by Mr. David Dobson that shed light on more than 1,100 Irish men and women and their families who immigrated to North America between roughly 1775 and 1825. ...
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    20,70 €

  • Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875. Part Two
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    It is difficult to estimate with complete accuracy the number of Scots who came to this continent after 1825 because some Irish and Continental emigrants sailed from Scottish ports while some Scots departed via England or Ireland. We do know, however, that between 1825 and 1838 over 60,000 emigrants left Scotland bound for North America; from 1840 to 1853, nearly 30,000 emigrat...
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    20,30 €

  • Scottish Surnames of Colonial America
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    In this book genealogist David Dobson has compiled a list of Scottish surnames of the estimated 150,000 Scots who settled in the America colonies. ...
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    31,00 €

  • French and Indian War from Scottish Sources
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Although the oldest regiment in the British Army is the 1st Royal regiment of Foot, usually known as the Royal Scots, it was not until the French and Indian War (known in Europe as the Seven Years War) that Scottish regiments played a significant role in the Army. In fact, between 1756 and 1763, Britain raised 10 regiments of Scots Highlanders to fight in the European and Ameri...
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    27,00 €

  • Later Scots-Irish Links, 1725-1825. Part One
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    In the tradition of his two earlier volumes of Scots-Irish links for the period 1575 to 1725, Mr. Dobson picks up the trails of Scots living in Ulster and Irish living in Scotland during the following hundred years. Unlike the previous century-and-a-half, the destination of most Scots emigrants during the 18th century was across the Atlantic and not to Ulster. The same period a...
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    20,86 €

  • Irish Emigrants in North America [1670-1830], Part Six
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    This is the sixth installment (and the third volume) in a series compiled by David Dobson that documents the departure of thousands of individuals who vacated Ireland for the promise of the New World between roughly 1670 and 1830. As many as half of the immigrants referred to here disembarked at Canadian ports in Ontario, while most of the rest entered North America through New...
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    23,62 €

  • Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    This is the first volume in a new series of books by David Dobson designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that began in the 1730s and intensified thereafter. ...
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    25,30 €

  • Scots-Irish Links, 1575-1725. Part Five
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    This is the fourth volume (fifth part) in a series compiled by Mr. Dobson to identify the Lowland Scots who migrated to Ulster between 1575 and 1725--many of whose progeny may have emigrated to America. ...
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    25,36 €

  • Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    This is part of a series by David Dobson designed to identify the origins of Scottish Highlanders who traveled to America prior to the Great Highland Migration that began in the 1730s and intensified thereafter. While the present volume is not a comprehensive directory of all the inhabitants of Perthshire during the mid-18th-century, it does pull together references on more tha...
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    23,69 €

  • Scots in the West Indies 1707-1857 Vol 2
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    The work at hand is the second volume in this series. It is the outgrowth of Mr. Dobson’s researches in the archives and libraries of Scotland, England, and Denmark and, together with Volume I, it represents the first listing devoted to Scottish inhabitants of the West Indies for the aforementioned period. Arranged alphabetically by surname, many of the entries in this volume ...
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    25,36 €

  • Later Scots-Irish Links, 1725-1825
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    This volume marks the third in a series by David Dobson that purports to identify persons of Scottish birth living in Ulster and of Irish living in Scotland in the hundred years following 1725. Working from primary sources in Scotland, such as university records, registers of apprentices, the Aberdeen City Archives, as well as published sources such as the periodical Scots Maga...
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    20,82 €

  • Scots-Dutch Links in Europe and America, 1575-1825
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    For his latest book, Scottish emigration expert David Dobson has combed primary and secondary sources on both sides of the Atlantic in order to document these links between Scotland, the Netherlands, and America. Mr. Dobson provides over 2,000 separate references to this traffic. In each case, he states the individual’s name, occupation (soldier, merchant, student, etc.), date ...
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    27,53 €

  • Searching for Scotch-Irish Roots in Scottish Records, 1600-1750
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    The aim of this groundbreaking book is to identify source material in Scottish libraries and archives that could enable people of Scotch-Irish (Scots-Irish) ancestry (i.e., the Ulster Scots) to locate their Scottish roots. Mr. Dobson provides detailed descriptions of the diverse record types available in Scottish libraries and archives, such as Presbytery (church) records, Appr...
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    27,15 €

  • Ships from Scotland to North America
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    David Dobson has compiled a new list of vessels that traveled from Scottish to North American ports between 1830 and 1860. The purpose of the volume is to enable researchers to link their immigrant ancestors’ first whereabouts in America with their port of embarkation in Scotland, and thus possibly the emigrant’s region of origin. Based mostly on sailings documented in contempo...
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    22,54 €

  • Scottish Highlanders on the Eve of the Great Migration, 1725-1775
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    This volume covers Highlanders from the county of Inverness, a location from which many of the pioneer emigrants who settled in colonial Georgia, Pennsylvania, upper New York, Jamaica, and the Canadian Maritimes originated. Inverness-shire is also the county where the Fraser’s Highlanders regiment, which played a prominent part in the French and Indian War and in the settlement...
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    29,74 €

  • Scottish-German Links, 1550-1850
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    In the tradition of his earlier books on Dutch, Huguenot, and Polish connections to Scotland, Dr. David Dobson has now collected several thousand references that establish specific immigration connections between Scotland and the future country of Germany for the period 1550 to 1850. While the contents of these transcriptions vary considerably, each one of the roughly 1,200 ent...
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    23,74 €

  • Scottish Soldiers in Colonial America, Part Three
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Scottish soldiers played an important role in defending the American colonies and in settling them. Around the middle of the 18th century, the British government began sending regiments like Fraser’s Highlanders to America; thereafter, the French and Indian War of 1756 to 1763 led to significant recruitment in Scotland for service in the American colonies. The experience gained...
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    19,99 €

  • Scottish Transatlantic Merchants, 1611-1785
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    Scottish merchants were in the vanguard of Scottish emigration to colonial America. In the 17th century, ships would leave Scotland bound for the Americas on trading voyages. This latest book from immigration authority David Dobson identifies many of these merchants and their American representatives. Based on primary sources found in Scotland and in America, 'Scottish Transatl...
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    27,56 €

  • Ships from Ireland to Early America, 1623-1850. Volume II
    David Dobson / Kit Dobson
    This is the second volume by David Dobson to identify vessels that traveled from Ireland to North America before 1850 and were known to, or were likely to, carry passengers. Based on research in contemporary sources--particularly newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic--this work identifies an additional 1,500 ships that were involved in transporting immigrants to the U.S. or ...
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    28,75 €


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