The Royal Jersey Almanac

The Royal Jersey Almanac
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Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0021974379
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Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

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Bulletins

Bulletins
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Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015057075395
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Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Bulletins by : Société jersiaise

Essai de bibliographie jersiaise. Catalogue d'auteurs qui ont écrit sur Jersey. Par Eugène Duprey": v. 4, p. [151]-192.

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors
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Publisher : Pen and Sword
Total Pages : 165
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ISBN-10 : 9781844686605
ISBN-13 : 1844686604
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors by : Marie-Louise Backhurst

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in libraries and archives in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Full information is given on how to access the civil birth, marriage and death records which are only available in the islands and differ in format from those in England and Wales. Marie-Louise Backhurst covers the census, church records, nonconformist registers, rating lists, newspapers, wills and inheritance, official records, and the variety of other sources that can illuminate a past life and make family history research so rewarding. Migration has played a large part in the history of the islands and details of the records are fully explained.This authoritative and easy-to-use guide to these collections, and the authors advice on how to use them and get the most out of them, will be invaluable to anyone who is trying to find out about the life and experience of an ancestor who lived in the Channel Islands or was connected with them. This book will equally be essential reading and reference for anyone who wants to explore the history of the Channel Islands.

Willing's Press Guide

Willing's Press Guide
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Total Pages : 522
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015067277916
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Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Willing's Press Guide by :

"A guide to the press of the United Kingdom and to the principal publications of Europe, Australia, the Far East, Gulf States, and the U.S.A.

Bulletin

Bulletin
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Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015035102311
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Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Bulletin by : Boston Public Library

Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)

The Secret History of the Jersey Devil

The Secret History of the Jersey Devil
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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781421436357
ISBN-13 : 1421436353
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Secret History of the Jersey Devil by : Brian Regal

A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born of colonial times that haunts the corners of the Pine Barrens—and the American imagination—to this day. Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster—a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes—that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe and frightening innocent passersby—or so the story goes. In The Secret History of the Jersey Devil, Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito examine the genesis of this popular myth, which is one of the oldest monster legends in the United States. According to Regal and Esposito, everything you think you know about the Jersey Devil is wrong. The real story of the Jersey Devil's birth is far more interesting, complex, and important than most people—believers and skeptics alike—realize. Leaving the Pine Barrens, Regal and Esposito turn instead to the varied political and cultural roots of the Devil's creation. Fascinating and lively, this book finds the origins of New Jersey's favorite monster not in witchcraft or an unnatural liaison between woman and devil but in the bare-knuckled political fights and religious upheavals of colonial America. A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.