Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas: A Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the Western Hemisphere

Christina K. Schaefer

Genealogical Publishing Com, 1998 - History - 814 pages

Until the publication of this remarkable work, no single source could be used to identify and locate the records of the various countries of the Western Hemisphere. The Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas offers a systematic examination of the records of the colonial period in the Western Hemisphere to show the researcher where to find the most important genealogical records of the period and how to access them.

Contents

• Chronology of Colonial American History: 3
• Dates of the First European Colonial Governors in America: 27
• Latin America: 31
• Colonial Records of Latin America: 33
• Argentina: 43
• Bolivia: 47
• Chile: 51
• Colombia: 55
• Costa Rica: 59
• Ecuador: 61
• El Salvador: 65
• Guatemala: 67
• Honduras: 73
• Mexico: 77
• Nicaragua: 85
• Panama: 87
• Paraguay: 89
• Peru: 91
• Uruguay: 97
• Venezuela: 101
• Brazil: 105
• The Guianas: 113
• BelizeBritish Honduras: 117
• The Falkland Islands: 121
• The Caribbean: 123
• Colonial Records of the Caribbean: 125
• The Bahama Islands: 131
• Barbados: 135
• Bermuda: 139
• The British Leeward Islands: 143
• The British Windward Islands: 147
• Cuba: 151
• The French Antilles: 155
• The Dominican Republic and Haiti: 159
• Jamaica: 163
• The Netherlands Antilles: 167
• Puerto Rico: 171
• Trinidad and Tobago: 175
• The Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos: 177
• The Thirteen Colonies Maine and Vermont: 181
• An Overview: 183
• Connecticut: 201
• Maine: 227
• Massachusetts: 243
• New Hampshire: 289
• Rhode Island: 313
• Vermont: 331
• Delaware: 353
• New Jersey: 365
• New York: 393
• Pennsylvania: 423
• Maryland: 457
• Virginia: 475
• North Carolina: 517
• South Carolina: 537
• Georgia: 549
• Other US States with settlements prior to the American Revolution: 557
• Alabama: 559
• Arizona: 561
• Arkansas: 565
• California: 567
• Florida: 573
• Illinois: 579
• Indiana: 583
• Kentucky: 585
• Louisiana: 589
• Michigan: 599
• Minnesota: 601
• Mississippi: 603
• Missouri: 607
• New Mexico: 609
• Ohio: 615
• Tennessee: 617
• Texas: 621
• Wisconsin: 625
• Canada: 627
• New France: 629
• Quebec: 643
• Ontario: 655
• Acadia: 671
• Nova Scotia: 675
• New Brunswick: 683
• Prince Edward Island: 685
• SaintPierreetMiquelon: 689
• Newfoundland and Labrador: 691
• Ruperts Land: 697
• Resources for further research: 701
• Religious Groups in the New World: 703
• Africa and the New World: 715
• Colonial Sources in Denmark: 743
• Colonial Sources in France: 745
• Colonial Sources in Great Britain: 753
• Colonial Sources in Germany: 775
• Colonial Sources in The Netherlands: 781
• Colonial Sources in Portugal: 785
• Colonial Sources in Spain: 787
• Colonial Sources in Sweden: 793
• Colonial Sources in Switzerland: 797
• Foreign Records at the Library of Congress: 799
• Index: 803

Bibliographic information

• Title: Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas: A Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the Western Hemisphere
• Author: Christina K. Schaefer
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1998
• ISBN: 0806315768, 9780806315768
• Length: 814 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry; Reference / Research