Monday, January 4, 2016

Genealogy Gifts from Santa 2015

What did Santa bring you this year?  My Santa Claus knows that I wait patiently every year for the "Wish Book" to come in the mail (AKA the book catalog from the New England Historic Genealogical Society).  I spend a few evenings perusing this catalog every December, circling some of my wishes.  Some get circled in red with stars.


I must have been very good because Santa got me two nice gifts from the NEHGS catalog, and one from I don't know where, but it made me squeal with delight.  I suppose only genealogists and historians would squeal over a book with over 1,000 pages of images and transcriptions of documents from the 1692 Salem witch hysteria.  I've been using this book at libraries, and now I have it for my very own use at home!   This is Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, edited by Bernard Rosenthal, now available in paperback and much more affordable than the original hardcover edition.

Over 1,000 pages!  



From the NEHGS bookstore I received The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620 - 1640 by Robert Charles Anderson, published earlier in 2015.   I've been looking forward to this book for a long time.



And to go along with the directory, I've been enrolled in a subscription to the Great Migration Newsletter.  Thank you, Santa Claus!  I love my new gifts!



Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, edited by Bernard Rosenthal and others, Cambridge University Press, 2013  http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/colonial-american-history/records-salem-witch-hunt?format=PB

The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England 1620 - 1640, by Robert Charles Anderson, The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015

Click this link to subscribe to The Great Migration Newsletter http://www.greatmigration.org/newsletter.html

The Bookstore at NEHGS   http://shop.americanancestors.org/

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Genealogy Gifts 2014 -
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/01/new-books-for-christmas-santa-was-very.html

Genealogy Gifts 2013 -
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/12/favorite-christmas-gifts-2013.html

Genealogy Gift 2012 -
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-favorite-christmas-gift-you-might.html

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Genealogy Gifts from Santa 2015",  Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 4, 2015, (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/gifts-from-santa-2015.html: accessed [access date]).  

2 comments:

  1. Lucky you! Great gifts. I got a bumper stick that says "Genealogy! Confusing the dead, irritating the living."

    Happy new year.

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