July is typically the slowest sales month in the publishing industry. So Family Roots Publishing Co. has decided it’s a good time to reduce inventory of those items of which they have large quantities available. Prices of selected items are reduced from 20 to 90%, and they are offering FREE USA postage on all purchases of $25 or more made at one time.
TO PURCHASE MULTIPLE ITEMS, place an item you wish to purchase in your shopping cart, use your back button (clicking twice) to go back to this page, click on the next item you are interested in, place it in the cart, and so forth. You may search for other items within the FRPC website at any time by clicking on “Continue Shopping.” Enjoy!
Every day for 12 days, they will advertise another 8 items. All items that will be reduced in price have already been reduced at the FRPC website, so if you happen upon them before they are advertised, you will instantly get the sale price! Note that Tuesdays, and Fridays are not included in the 12 days, as those are the days they email the Genealogy Newsline, and they don’t wish to confuse the “12 Days of Chrustmas in July Sale” with the genealogy news oriented Genealogy Newsline mailings.
FREE USA postage is offered for purchases of $25 or more made at one time throughout the sale. The “12 Days of Christmas in July Sale” ends at Midnight MDT July 25, 2013.
SALE ITEMS – DAY NINE
These prices are good until midnight MDT July 25, 2013 OR until current stock is depleted, whichever comes first.
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German-Americana: A Bibliography – Reg. $30.50 – 25% off – Just $22.88
Since its original publication in 1975, this book has become a standard reference to material published on German-American history. This selective bibliography lists over 5,300 sources (books, pamphlets, government publications, newspapers, periodical articles, dissertations, records, photo albums, and materials in other formats). Each source is alphabetically arranged by the author’s last name within ten categories. This bibliography is an indispensable guide to German-American literature.
Remembrance, Faith, and Fancy: Outdoor Public Sculpture in Indiana Indiana – Reg. $39.95 – 75% off – Just $9.99
In the early 1850s Henry Cross, a stone carver, fashioned three road-marker heads in Brown County, Indiana. The markers, one of which survives today on maps as Stone Head, were the first outdoor public sculptures in the Hoosier State. Through the years, counties throughout the state have continued to add to Cross’s legacy, dotting the landscape with sculptures both realistic and fanciful. Remembrance, Faith, and Fancy: Outdoor Public Sculpture in Indiana examines the more than 1,500 pieces of outdoor sculpture through such broad categories as commemorative, religious, aesthetic, whimsical, and abstract/contemporary.
Further Undertakings of a Dead Relative Collector – Reg. $11.00 – 25% off – Just $8.25
Here she comes again, our aging Joan of Arc, mercilessly stripping away the veneer covering the sordid world of genealogy; teeth bared, mop and blender at the ready – motherhood and America on the line – she’s out to do battle with the dragons of genealogy. Disguised as an ordinary person, she penetrates the inner sanctum of American genealogy, smoking out baloney and quackery in the lecture halls, exposing hidden meanings and dark purposes in wingdings in such innocent seeming places as Ohio and California, confronting Armageddon itself in San Francisco, and raising doubts about the sanity of the universe. With a swipe at foreigners, computer freaks, reluctant letter-writers, and certain best-forgotten ancestors–not to mention the hell on earth when the microfilm reader is on the fritz – our good lady is uncompromising in her single-minded devotion to flushing out flummery and humbug. But does she succeed? Does good triumph over evil in the garden of genealogy? Or will the dark forces of earnest endeavor gain the upper hand? You’ll be laughing so hard you may never find out!
The Center – A Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Capital Area – Reg. $19.95 – 45% off – Just $10.97
It is not generally recognized, but Washington, D.C. is home to the largest body of accessible research materials in the world, larger even than the vast body of materials at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It is the central repository of the nation’s primary source records and the very center of genealogical activity. The aim of this book is to identify those resources in the Washington, D.C. area that will aid family historians in tracing their ancestors (the National Archives, Library of Congress, the DAR Library, the National Genealogical Society, and many more). While it is based on the original idea of the popular guidebook, Lest We Forget (originally published in 1965), The Center is actually an all-new work which completely revises and updates its predecessor. Under each facility listed there is a survey of key record holdings, with a description of the records, a summary of their contents, an explanation of their organization, and directions for their use. There is also a list of published indexes and finding aids, key addresses for mail requests, publications, phone numbers and hours of business, and an itemization of those materials available through the Family History Library system.
What Did They Mean By That? A Dictionary of Historical and Genealogical Terms, Old and New – Reg. $36.00 – 20% off – Just $28.80
The family historian must seek out the records of the merchants, courts, legislators, and churches, as well as the everyday expressions of the common men and women, all the while striving to remain aware that just as we have created words like television, computer, microwave oven, automobile, space station, gigabyte, and airplane, and set aside words as ticking and icebox, stadle, and squabpie, our ancestors had to do the same. They made up the likes of telegraph, railroad, and telescope, and assimilated German words like hex, sauerkraut, fresh, hoodlum, and kindergarten; Spanish words such as barbeque, chocolate, and tornado; French sounds like bayou, levee, depot, and chowder; and Indian words such as hickory, pecan, hominy, moccasin, and raccoon. Though they invented the likes of popcorn, sweet potato, eggplant, bullfrog, and backwoodsman, they left behind them terms no longer needed in their daily lives. Gone were the likes of moxa (Indian moss burned on an area of the body, thought to cure gout), hautboy (oboe), gruntling (young hog), muchwhat (nearly), revelrout (a ruckus), and, from most regions of the U.S., the long “a” sounds of old England (fahst for fast, dahnce for dance, and hoff, meaning half.) In addition to terminology, such as the names of the many courts and legal processes, this collection of more than 4500 words includes many occupations, descriptions of early furniture and foods, common medical terms and herbal remedies, and many all but forgotten expressions. The words found here are seen at every turn of research; in court documents (especially inventories of estates, court entries, and lawsuits), church records, books, newspapers, letters, and songs. Mr. Drake, retired lawyer and teacher, and veteran genealogist, writes with a pleasing style that is entertaining and educational. He is the author of the popular guide, Genealogy: How to Find Your Ancestors, and You Ought to Write All That Down.
Recording Your Family History – Reg. $9.95 – 40% off – Just $5.97
Recording Your Family History by William Fletcher is a guide to preserving oral history with video and audio tape. The same methods apply to all types of digital recording today. Fletcher has designed a program that will allow you or anyone in your family to be a capable life history interviewer. Tips on interview techniques and guidance on audio and video equipment plus hundreds of useful family tree topics and questions. . . all in a practical, easy-to-use handbook that will help any reader/historian develop a comprehensive record of one’s life, or the saga of several generations. In a recent review for another similar book., Judith P. Reid of the Library of Congress said, “the best available work is William Fletcher’s Recording Your Family History,” which confirms that there are those who know still think this is the best available book on recording your family history.
Irish Passenger Lists, 1803-1806: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Ireland to America – Reg. $28.00 – 40% off – Just $16.80
Except for the brief period from March 1803 to March 1806, no official registers of passengers leaving Irish ports were ever kept. The exception refers to lists contained in the so-called Hardwicke Papers, now located in the British Library, London. Altogether, some 4,500 passengers are identified in the 109 sailings recorded in the Hardwicke Papers–most cited with their all-important place of residence. Although Dublin was the most popular port of departure, the three northern ports of Belfast, Londonderry, and Newry accounted for 61% of the sailings. New York was far and away the most popular destination, with Philadelphia running a reasonable second. The Hardwicke lists, only fragments of which have ever appeared in print, as transcribed by Brian Mitchell now fill a significant gap in the records, since in many cases they will prove to be the only record of an ancestor’s emigration to the U.S.
District of Columbia Name Lists, 1600s – 1997, with a selection of National Name Lists, 1600s – Present, an annotated bibliography of published and online name lists – with a FREE instant PDF download eBook – Reg. $18.95 – 20% off – Just $15.16
Name lists, often called census substitutes, be they national, state, county, or even city or town in scope, can help nail down the precise place where one’s ancestor may have lived. And if that can be done, further records, usually found on a local level, will now be accessible to research. But success depends on knowing where the ancestor resided. This is where Dollarhide’s Name List guides can make the difference.