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Three volume set: I. Allanson to French, II. Gardner toMoses, and III. N Neal to Wright. The multi -ancestorcompendia compiled and published by Walter Goodwin D avisis one of the major achievements of twentieth- centurygenealogy. These volumes authoritatively cover 180families, all of Davis's colonial forebears plus nineteenEnglish families in the immediate ancestry of Americanimmigrants. The Davis opus is undoubtedly the premier workfor northern New England, and an often essential companionvolume to the celebrated Genealogical Dictionary of Maineand New Hampshire, which it considerably expands,especially for many Essex County families with ties furthernorth. Almost anyone with considerable New Englandancestry--and as many as 100 million living Americans,about 40 percent of the population, have some colonial NewEngland forebears--will descend from one or more, often adozen or more, of the families herein. |
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