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Computer Helper GUIDANCE FOR THE DIGITAL AGE CD-ROM Reviews Ed i t e d by Le l a n d K. Mei tz ler Send us your genealogical or local history CD-ROM and we will do a thorough review of the electronic publication, publishing the review in this section of The Genealogical Helper. Send your CD-ROM publication to the CD- ROM Editor, The Genealogical Helper, PO Box 830, Bountiful, UT 84011. Then, send an email attachment to Leland@everton.com with the CD-ROM title, author, copyright date (including original copyright if an electronic reprint of an old book or publication), item number (if any), cost of the CD-ROM, shipping cost, and location where the CD-ROM can be purchased. Include your website as well as physical address if applicable. Descriptive material is welcomed, and may or may not be used within the review. CD-ROMs received will become the property of the reviewer upon publication of the review. Genealogy Books on CD-ROM—Volume 1 The following is a correction to the phone number for Stemmons Publishing. We published extensive information in the Nov-Dec 2008 Helper about this CD-ROM set. Compiled by Stemmons Publishing, 2007; Published by and available from Stemmons Publishing Co., PO Box 612, West Jordan, UT 84084; Phone: 801-254- 2152 (Mon-Fri 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. MST); $30 each plus $10.00 for p&h. Utah residents add 6.25% sales tax. Order the full set of 10 CDs for only $119.00, plus $15 p&h. See: www.stemmonspublishing.com. Pennsylvania Vital Records 1700s-1800s—From The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7172; Published by and available from Genealogical Publishing Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211- 1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with $4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland residents. ISBN: 9780806397214. See: http://www. genealogical.com/products/7172.html. This set of 10 CD-ROMs makes up a massive genealogy library of 705 books. Altogether, there are over 60,000 images, making up 230,643 pages. According to the compiler, the value of the book collection is over $7000.00. The following listings are a Contents by Subject listing, followed by a CD-ROM by CD- ROM listing of the titles found on each disk. Note that the title is followed by the year of publication of the original volume. To speed your search, check out the Contents by Subject listing first. Note that since these are made up of PDF files, they will run on most any computer, PC or Mac. Submitting a Website Highlight See Website Highlight guidelines on page 5. Submitting a Software Highlight See Software Highlight guidelines on page 5. Originally published in three volumes by the Genealogical Publishing Company, this is a collection of every article about births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths that ever appeared in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Referring to more than 87,000 individuals, Pennsylvania Vital Records is one of the largest bodies of Pennsylvania source materials ever published. The records date from 1701 to 1882 and cover all regions of Pennsylvania. For the period prior to 1820, they offer researchers one of the best opportunities for making ancestral connections in Pennsylvania. The records in this collection were extracted from church registers, court records, records of local officials, ministers’ 76 © Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009
Compute Helpe records, newspapers, and gravestone inscriptions. For your convenience, a name index spans all three volumes. System Requirements: You must have a CD- ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com). Loyalists in the American Revolution By various authors; 2008; Item #GPC7144; Published by and available from Genealogical Publishing Co., 3600 Clipper Mill Rd., Baltimore, MD 21211- 1953; Phone: 800-296-6687. $39.99 each with $4.00 for shipping plus 6% sales tax for Maryland residents. ISBN: 9780806397115. See: http://www. genealogical.com/products/7144.html. The term “Loyalist” is generally applied to those colonists who sided with the British during the Revolutionary War. Also called “Tories,” Loyalists came from all social classes and occupations and by some estimates made up as much as one-third of the colonial population. The Loyalist cause was strongest in the southern colonies, in Georgia and the Carolinas, especially, and in the mid-Atlantic colonies, particularly New York and Pennsylvania. Sentiment against the Loyalists led to various proscriptions and restrictions, but it was the confiscation of their land and property that led to the creation—unintentionally, of course—of some of the most useful Revolutionary War-era genealogical records available today. The 13 volumes of records produced in this Family Archive CD contain some of the most useful works ever published on Revolutionary War Loyalists. Originally published or reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company, they cover a broad spectrum of information pertaining to the identification of individual Loyalists. From land records to pension records, from orderly books to diaries, from recruitment lists, muster rolls, and pay lists to biographies and lists of United Empire Loyalists, these volumes variously provide the following information: name, country or place of origin, occupation, names of family members and friends, location and value of confiscated property, civilian service rendered during the war, military service (rank, company, regiment, place of service, dates of enlistment and discharge, etc.), date of migration, place of settlement, certificates, petitions, and claims for compensation, evidence of character, statements of witnesses, and a host of other details that could lead the researcher to his Loyalist ancestor. In both narratives and records, there is a profusion of genealogical detail, which is here presented in a convenient, easy-to-use CD, complete with an electronic name index. Listed below are the books included on this CD: 1. Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia, by Marion Gilroy 2. The Loyalists in North Carolina During the Revolution, by Robert DeMond 3. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution (2 vols.), by Lorenzo Sabine 4. Orderly Book of the “Maryland Loyalists Regiment,” by Caleb Jones 5. Orderly Book of the Three Battalions of Loyalists Commanded by Brigadier General Oliver De Lancey 6. Loyalists in the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War (3 vols.), by Murtie June Clark 7. United Empire Loyalists. Enquiry into the Losses and Services in Consequence of Their Loyalty (2 vols.), by Alexander Fraser 8. The Old United Empire Loyalists List 9. The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials, Petitions, and Claims, by Edward Jones System Requirements: You must have a CD- ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com). Ja n ua ry/Fe b r u a r y 2009 Ev e r t o n’s Ge n e a l o g i c a l He l p e r © 77
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