Kentucky Ancestors, Volume 46, Number 2 - Kentucky Historical ...

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