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Complete Book of Emigrants 1661-1699
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9.6
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    The London and Middlesex genealogical directory 1980
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    9.5
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    • 3
    Barnes ancestry:
    the story of an 1820 British settler family in South Africa, and of its descendants
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    9.5
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    • 4
    British families in South Africa:
    their surnames and origins
    Current rating
    9.5
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    • 5
    In Search of Your British and Irish Roots
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    9.5
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    • 6
    The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names
    Current rating
    9.3
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    • 7
    Records of emigrants from England and Scotland to North Carolina, 1774-1775
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    9.0
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    • 8
    English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660:
    Abstracts of Examinations in the High Court of Admiralty With Reference to Colonial America
    (#1100)
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    8.9
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    • 9
    An index of surnames:
    supplement 1988
    Current rating
    8.8
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    The Byrons and Trevanions
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    8.7
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    • 11
    More Monumental Inscriptions:
    Tombstones of the British West Indies
    (Stokvis Studies in Historical Chronology and Thought, No 14)
    Current rating
    8.5
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    • 12
    Tudor and Stuart muster rolls:
    a directory of holdings in the British Isles
    Current rating
    8.4
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    • 13
    The settler handbook:
    a new list of the 1820 settlers
    Current rating
    8.4
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    • 14
    English Adventurers and Emigrants Immigration Sixteen Hundred and Sixty-One Thru Seventeen Hundred and Thirty-Three
    (#1101)
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    8.2
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    Complete Book of Emigrants, 1751-1776
    Current rating
    8.2
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    • 16
    Tracing your West Indian ancestors:
    sources in the Public Record Office
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    8.2
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    • 17
    The Ancestor Game
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    8.1
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    • 18
    Passengers on the "Lion" from England to Boston, 1632:
    and five generations of their descendants
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    7.9
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    • 19
    American Vital Records from the Gentlemans Magazine 1731 1868
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    7.8
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    English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660:
    Abstracts of Examinations in the High Court of Admiralty With Reference to Colonial America
    (#1100)
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    7.7
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    Shakespeare's English history plays:
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    The House of Byron:
    A History of the Family from the Norman Conquest, 1066-1988
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    English Origins of New England Families:
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    (#1099)
    An Index of surnames:
    supplement 1983
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    (Public Record Office Handbooks ; No. 19)
    Ties that bind:
    British immigration to North America in the nineteenth century, Edsall, Mayhew, Sadler
    English Origins of American Colonists:
    From the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
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    passenger lists of United Kingdom emigrants who applied for free passage to South Australia, 1836-1840
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    Indentured Servants Recruited in London 1718-1733
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    a history of the descendants of Daniel English
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