Self Family Newsletter
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Books and Lookups

Self Family Newsletter has a small collection of historical and genealogical books. Below you will find a list and if wish a look-up in one of them please email SelfFamLtr@aol.com. The Self Family Newsletter is non-profit and does not sell books. Contact the various authors directly to obtain your copy of any book listed.

Alaska Trappers Cook Book by R. A. Self

Butte County N. C. Minutes, 1767-1779 by Brent Holcomb

Civil War Battlefield Guide by The Conservative Fund

"Creek Indian By Blood - The Story of John Berryhill and Elizabeth Derrisaw and Their Descendants" by Thelma Nolan Cornfeld, 502 pages, which covers John and Baxter Self of NC, GA. and onto OK.

English Ancestral Names by J. R. Dolan

Growing Up In Indian Territory by Huber Self and Melvin Self

Handbook for Genealogists by Everton Publishers

"Harrison Self - Bridge Burner, Lick Creek Bridge, Mohawk, TN., Nov. 08, 1861" by LeRoy Self. Remember the article from the early 80's by Richard Self - "Sentenced to Hang"? This book greatly expands on that event / article, and now you can learn the rest of the story.

History of Franklin County Ohio by Linden Heights Kiwanis Club

Kentucky County Histories Vol. #1

Kentucky County Histories Vol. #2

Loudoun County Virginia Minute Book 1780-1783 by TLC Books

Lunenburg County Virginia Deeds 1761-1764 by TLC Books

Lunenburg County Virginia Deeds 1764-1771 by TLC Books

Northern Neck Land Grants by Gray

Self Family of Boone County MO from Martha Cheavens, Vol. #2 by Virginia E. DeMarce.

Self Heritage by Larry R. Brown and Edna Earle James

Self & Related Families by Mae Self Cabaniss

The Character of Quality by G. O. Robinson

The Genealogists Encyclopedia by L. G. Pine

The History of Clark and Crawford Counties Illinois by Unigraphics Reproductions

Virginia Colonial Abstracts by Beverly Fleet

Westmoreland County Virginia Order Book 1675-1689, Parts 1 thru 6 by John Frederick Dorman

Westmoreland County Virginia Order Book 1690-1698, Parts 1 thru 3 by John Frederick Dorman

Westmoreland County Virginia Order Book 1698-1705 Parts 1 thru 4 by John Frederick Dorman

Greenwood County (SC) Sketches, Old roads and early families, by Margaret Wilson, 1970, has been added to the Self Family Library. An collection of informal ramblings along travel routes in a small section of South Carolina. (Edgefield County) 425 pp's.

The complete 1880 US Census and National Index, a 56 CD resource of the Family History Library. Look-ups are for Self Family Newsletter members only.

[LEVEL 4] Virus Hunters of the CDC, by Joseph B. McCormick, MD, former Chief of the CDC's legendary "Hot Zone", and Susan fisher-Hoch, MD, 1996, 397 pp's. The personal experiences of Dr. Joseph B. McCormick (the son of our groups own Jewell Gibson - page 384) hunting Level 4 organisms and other emerging infectious diseases.

A History of The Family of Self, by Joseph Charles Self, July 1979

The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, by The Reverend Frederick Lewis Weis, 1955.



In addition to Dan's library at the Self Family Newsletter, Jami Hamilton also has a few books and CD's she can do look-ups in. Please email Jamialane@aol.com

Native American CD - containing Dawes Final Rolls, application to enrollments 1896-1897, Dawes Rejected.

Amherst County, Virginia Marriage Bonds 1763-1800 compiled by William Montgomery Sweeny.

Nelson County, Virginia Marriage Rcords 1808-1850 Compiled by John Vogt & T. William Kethley Jr.

1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners abstracted by Roger G. Ward

Marriages Shenandoah County, Virginia 1882-1915 abstracted by Duane L. Borden and Jeanette Conner Ritenour

Indian Island in Amherst County, Virginia by Peter W. Houck MD

The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee: A Remnant of a Great Nation by Horace R. Rice Ed. D

History of Bland County, Virginia by Bland County Centennial Corporation

Who Was Who Among the Southern Indians – A Genealogical Notebook by Don Martini



Doris Redford: DRedford2@aol.com has the following items for look-ups:

Hart County Kentucky census for 1850
Larue County Kentucky Marriage Records Book,1843-1876
Larue County Kentucky Cemeteries Books, current to 1982
Grayson County Kentucky Cemeteries, Vol 1
Hardin County Kentucky Marriages 1792-1829
Hardin County Kentucky Marriages 1830-1850
Hardin County Kentucky Cemeteries Vol 1
Hardin County Kentucky Cemeteries Vol 2
Hardin County Kentucky Cemeteries Vol 3
Hardin County Kentucky Cemeteries Vol 4- E-Town
Hardin County Kentucky Cemeteries Vol 5
Meade County Kentucky Marriages 1824-1884
Meade County Kentucky Marriages 1885-1934
Barren County Kentucky Cemetery Records
Hart County Kentucky Cemetery Records, Vol 1 thru 5
Hart County Kentucky Births
Hart County Kentucky Deaths
Edmsonson County Kentucky Vitals- Births, Deaths and Marriages
Social Security Indexes

Also Doris has just finished transcribing Self birth records for KY. from 1911 to 1988, including the mothers maiden name. This printed out at 25 pages and is a little too much for the Newsletter to print all at once. Contact: Doris Redford, 1709 Bodart Court, Houston, TX., 77090 or DRedford2@aol.com


TEXAS

If there are any Self Family Newsletter only subscribers who want more information on Texas cemetery locations on their ancestors, I will be happy to research the Texas sites for you as time permits. Just provide me with names and/or geographical information with which to search. Contact: Katherine Shaler, 7401 North Lamar, #118, Austin, TX., 78752 or kshaler@atpe.org


KENTUCKY

Joyce Tharpe, 2342 Crittenden Drive, #2, Louisville, KY., 40207, or Jthar37@aol.com will do research for members of the Newsletter at the Filson Club in Louisville, KY. Please provide Joyce with adequate background material and be specific with your request. She manages to go to the library once a month.


GEORGIA

"History of Franklin County" and "The History of Lumpkin County 1832-1932" if anyone needs lookups email Ron Self: RLSelf@aol.com

Doris Howard: DHoward293@aol.com
Oglethorpe Co, Ga Cemetery Book
Georgians by George R Gilmer.
History of Coosa Co, AL
Bladen Co. AL Heritage Book.
Giles Co, TN Cemetery Book



BOOKS

Suzanne Grimes - SG2243@aol.com has offered to do look-ups in the book The Family of Josiah Franklin Self and Francis Augusta (Wright) Self and Various Related Families. Compiled by Victor H. Self second edition printed August, 1952. First edition was printed 1939. This line descends from (1)Henry; (2)Thomas; (3)Ezekiel, Presley, Clarinda, Joseph, Elizabeth; (4)Thomas, Jesse, Peter and on down.