Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 46, Number 2 - Kentucky Historical ...
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Directory of Scots Banished to the<br />
American Plantations: 1650-1775. 2nd<br />
ed. By David Dobson. (2010. Pp. 251.<br />
$29.50. Baltimore: Clearfield Company<br />
by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,<br />
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 260,<br />
Baltimore, MD 21211-1953, or from the<br />
Internet at www.genealogical.com).<br />
Directory of Scots Banished to the<br />
American Plantations: 1650-1775<br />
contains the listing for a large<br />
number of individuals from<br />
Scotland who came to the colonies<br />
as a punishment for crimes or other<br />
undesirable activities. The author,<br />
David Dobson, searched the<br />
National Archives in London, the<br />
National Archives in Edinburgh,<br />
and the library of the University of<br />
St. Andrews to compile this listing<br />
of Scottish deportees. Each listing<br />
contains the complete name of<br />
the person and as much additional<br />
identifying information that could<br />
be found in the historical archives.<br />
Each entry contains a reference to<br />
the archive where the material was<br />
located.<br />
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Creating a Winning Family History:<br />
Including a Guide to the NGS Family<br />
History Writing Contest. By Carmen<br />
J. Finley. (2010. Pp. 40. Paper.<br />
$12.00. To order, go to the National<br />
Genealogical Society Web site (http://<br />
www.ngsgenealogy.org, and select<br />
“Online Store”), write to the National<br />
Genealogical Society (NGS), 3108<br />
Columbia Pike, Suite 300, Arlington,<br />
Virginia 22204-4370, or phone<br />
800-473-0060.)<br />
When family-history researchers<br />
have invested the necessary time,<br />
effort, and resources to uncover<br />
their ancestors in-depth, one of<br />
the next questions most frequently<br />
heard is: “How do I write my<br />
family history so I can share it<br />
with others?” This short booklet,<br />
Creating a Winning Family History:<br />
Including a Guide to the NGS Family<br />
History Writing Contest, by Carmen<br />
J. Finley, provides a concise guide to<br />
the process of taking the collected<br />
genealogical material and turning it<br />
into a well-documented and wellorganized<br />
family history that will<br />
be useful not only for present-day<br />
readers but for family descendants<br />
who will pick it up to learn about<br />
their own ancestors generations<br />
from now.<br />
The author complements the<br />
writing, documenting, and<br />
organizing parts of the family<br />
history process by providing<br />
guidelines on how a family<br />
historian can prepare a manuscript<br />
for submission to the National<br />
Genealogical Society Family History<br />
Writing Contest or to <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
<strong>Ancestors</strong> for consideration and<br />
possible publication.