David Dobson’S Books Valuable Aids

Scottish ancestors giving you a problem?

Author David Dobson continues to produce books on early Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigrants to North America. Those of us researching ancestors into this period realize there are few published records, and original records are scanty and hard to find.

Dobson’s books make information available to researchers that cannot easily be found elsewhere. The roster of his books include:

“Scottish-American Wills” (between 1650 and 1900 more than 2,000 Scots residing in North America had their wills registered in Scotland).

“Scottish American Heirs, 1683-1883” (abstracts of every Scottish-American connection found in the records of the Services of Heirs in Scotland).

“Scottish American Court Records, 1733-1783 Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America” (seven volumes covering years from 1625 to 1825).

“Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828 .”

“Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612 to 1783” (abstracts of all the known extant records pertaining to the 150,000 original Scots who immigrated to the colonies before the Revolutionary War).

This work now has a supplement, containing data that enlarges what was published in the first book, plus new information gleaned from recent research.

These books are the very best research aids for early Scottish and Scotch-Irish immigration into North America.

The Genealogy Section of the downtown Spokane Public Library has copies of most of Dobsons books. All of these books were published by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202-3897.

For more information on any title, or to place an order, call (800) 296-6687.

Genealogical Publishing Co. is also offering Family Tree Maker CD-ROMs these days.

Two recent disks are “The New Jersey Biographical Index, 1800s” and “Mayflower Vital Records, Deeds & Wills, 1600s to 1900s.”

The New Jersey disk contains images of the pages from the New Jersey Biographical Index, a reference work covering nearly 2,000 volumes of 237 periodicals and sources, showing references to approximately 60,000 individuals living in New Jersey in the 1800s.

I was excited to use this disk because I’ve long been looking for Jemima Minthorn, born about 1840 in New Jersey. I did not find a listing for my Jemima, but there were many references for Minthorn families and the exact source where I might read the information for myself.

Do you think you might be a descendant of a Mayflower passenger way back in 1620?

Genealogical Publishing Co.’s other new CD-ROM is a collection of information on 82,000 individuals who were descendants of the original band of Pilgrims.

The disk could provide clues as to the birth, death, marriage, deed and probate of those Pilgrims.

The information comes from five previously published books by Susan E. Roser.

The Eastern Washington Genealogical Society continues to add CD-ROMs to its holdings in the Genealogy Section of the downtown Spokane Public Library. You might check for these two new titles.