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The Yager Family: The First Five Generations. By Cathi Clore Frost. (2010. Pp. 690. Paper. $52.00. To order, contact the Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia, Inc., P.O. Box 279, Locust Grove, VA 22508-0279, call 540-423-1700, fax 540-423-1747, or go to www. germanna.org.) Genealogical researcher and author, Cathi Clore Frost, has written an excellent new family history of the first five generations of the Yager family with its 1717 beginning in the Second Germanna Colony in Virginia. This is the newest publication (number nineteen) in the Germanna Records series that documents the extensive history and genealogy of the German emigrants who moved to Virginia in 1714 and 1717. The Yager Family: The First Five Generations begins with Nicholas Yager and his family who settled initially near Fort Germanna in present Orange County, Virginia, and soon after in present Madison County, Virginia, upon their 50 | Kentucky Ancestors arrival from Germany. The author describes in extensive detail the family history of the Yagers as they moved further into various parts of Virginia, and on into Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee, etc. The extensive family history of nearly five hundred pages is fully documented with almost ten thousand references, a comprehensive bibliography of the various sources used, as well as a complete-name index for the entire volume. Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era: Online and Published Military or Civilian Name Lists, 1861-1869, and Post-War Veteran Lists. By William Dollarhide. (2009. Pp. 191. #32.95. Paper. To purchase, write to Family Roots Publishing Co., P.O. Box 830, Bountiful, UT 84011, or www. familyrootspublishing.com.) William Dollarhide, author of several noted references in genealogical research, has written an excellent book that will be useful to any family-history researcher seeking information on Civil War soldiers, as well as family members living in that period. Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era begins with coverage of ten national-level research groups, including the online Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, the 1890 Federal census, U.S. pension files, cemetery lists, and the multivolume Roll of Honor. He discusses the state-level resource groups, including compiled service records, Confederate pension applications, statewide lists of veteran burials, and state adjutant general reports. The largest section of the book discusses each state, specific research archives, and both online and published resources applicable to the men serving from each individual state. Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era is the single best resource yet published as a guide to Civil War veteran research, and will be a valuable tool for anyone wanting to research Civil War-era ancestors. Extensive cross-indexing throughout the book will lead the researcher to the appropriate section for the information being sought.
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