Thursday, August 30, 2007

Olive Tree Genealogy

Added Olive Tree Genealogy to the general resource list. This is a listing of free genealogy records and claims links to over 1,700 databases. Thanks to Bill Mac Donald for pointing this one out.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Books for Lounsbury Research

Three very useful books for Lounsbury family research are:
1) Lounsbury, Origin, Meaning and Significance; by Raymond H. Lounsbury, 1976
2) Pennoyer Brothers, Colonization, Commerce, Charity in the Seventeenth Century; by Raymond H. Lounsbury, 1971, published by Dorrance & Company, Philadelphia, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-151059
3) The North American Descendants of William & Grace Elizabeth (Gray) Lounsbury of North River, New Brunswick by Jack H. Lounsbury, privately published November 1985

Bill Mac Donald

Monday, August 20, 2007

Welcome

Jim Jurista and Bill Mac Donald have been excellent editors of the Lounsbury Tree, a newsletter dedicated to promulgating genealogical information about the family name of Lounsbury with all its spellings, such as Loundsbury, Lounsbery, and Lonsbury, to name the more common. You are welcome to post questions and comments here to be read by others interested in Lounsbury genealogy. SPAM will be cheerfully deleted. Links for issues of the Lounsbury Tree will be available on this site.

-bob fraser