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historical and genealogical material, located in Santa Maria, on the
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Janaway Publishing, Inc., opened in 1999 and is a family-owned publishing company and bookstore, specializing in historical and genealogical material. We are always looking to help new authors get their work published. Please contact us for more information.
We maintain a large number of titles, and can find many publications for you that are difficult to locate, or that are no longer in print. We contract with other publishers, we can be a one-stop shop. Some of our books are printed when ordered so they are not sitting on shelves for a long period of time. This can lead to a longer shipping time. However, you will get a new, never used book.
The Aubry sisters who came of age at the very beginning of American domination in colonial New Orleans, were, while it may seem ironic to some, certainly freer than their white female married counterparts. Since the beginning of the Spanish regime in 1769, Louisiana s free women of color, could buy and sell property, make contracts, and sue for their rights in court, all without interference from a spouse, father or guardian. This is the story, not only of the Aubrys, but also the Chiapella, Coudrain, Foy, Lemelle, Delachaise, Lorreins, Dupuy, Allain, Bonneval, Ozenne, Edmunds, Flot, Bringier, Pinta, Grandmaison, Dalcour, Raby, St. Hubert, Latrobe, Domingon, Lassize, Rigaud, Cassan, Watkinson, Grasse, and other related families who populated the multicultural landscape of early New Orleans
New in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 390 p., 8.5" X 11", Audience: General/trade. The Aubry sisters who came of age at the very beginning of American domination in colonial New Orleans, were, while it may seem ironic to some, certainly freer than their white female married counterparts. Since the beginning of the Spanish regime in 1769, Louisiana s free women of color, could buy and sell property, make contracts, and sue for their rights in court, all without ...
New. No dust jacket. With the large-scale immigration of Jews from diaspora communities, the Jewish population of the United States is the second largest in the world. You've most definitely heard about the Jewish communities in and near major cities such as New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. But did you know that one-fifth of the Jews who reached the US shores in the 19th and early 20th centuries settled in Louisiana? From France and Germany, they crossed the Atlantic Ocean to become peddlers, ...
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Janaway Publishing, Inc.
Date published: 2022
ISBN-13:9781596414693ISBN:1596414693
Description: New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 402 p. Audience: General/trade. With a record of permanent settlement since the 1720s, Pointe Coupée Parish is one of the oldest communities in the Mississippi River Valley. Créole in culture, owing to the predominance of its French, African, and blended ethnicities, the parish, however, owes much to its Jewish families, who once numbered in the hundreds and whose presence dated from the 1760s. In the wake of the Civil War, when the traditional plantation ... Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Janaway Publishing, Inc
Date published: 2010
ISBN-13:9781596411159ISBN:1596411155
Description: New -1 jacket. This book is a transcription from the 1880 Census schedules of Fayette County, Tennessee, of Heads-of-Household, and has been arranged alphabetically by surname. The names and ages of other household members of a different surname are also included. Approximately 9, 000 heads-of-household. Paperback, (2003), repr. 2010, 2012, Indexed, 40 pp. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Janaway Publishing, Inc
Date published: 2011
ISBN-13:9781596412453ISBN:1596412453
Description: New -1 jacket. Genealogists and Historians researching royal descendants have found this work to be extremely helpful. Browning's Americans of Royal Descent is considered a standard on royal genealogy, containing 213 pedigrees, which outline the lineal descent of hundreds of American families from European Kings and Queens. The information presented has been developed primarily from recognized authorities, privately printed family histories, and pedigree manuscripts to which the author had ... Read More
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Janaway Publishing, Inc.
Date published: 2023
ISBN-13:9781596414815ISBN:1596414812
Description: New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 134 p. Audience: General/trade. Tennessee Divorces, 1797-1858. Gale W. Bamman, CG., and Debbie W. Spero. Abstracts of 750 divorces, statewide, taken from legislative petitions and acts. Complete index with over 3000 entries. Divorce was a last resort for unhappily married persons in the early 1800s because of the ensuing shame, embarrassment, and ostracism. Nevertheless, when a marriage could no longer be tolerated, a divorce was sought, either through ... Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Janaway Publishing, Inc
Date published: 2011
ISBN-13:9781596410169ISBN:1596410167
Description: New -1 jacket. Softcover, (1910), 2006, 80 pp. This is a Comprehensive Guide to the Colonial Ancestry of approximately 2, 000 Families in the States of Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Alabama. The information has been gleaned from over 7, 000 sources, with each entry noting each reference. The book is self-indexed, with each surname listed alphabetically. Read More
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Janaway Publishing Inc., Santa Maria, CA
Date published: 2018
ISBN-13:9781596414143ISBN:1596414146
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardbound, (1921-1922), reprinted with new Index 2018, Illus., Maps, Index, 806 pp. This reprinted edition contains a New, comprehensive, every-name Index, consisting of 123 pages, which was not included in the original publication. The History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore, is considered an essential source of reference for researchers investigating the Cherokee tribe, or family historians tracing their Native American family ... Read More
