In his book Potter’s Field: The Chanate Historic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, California, Jeremy Dwight Nichols brings a lost graveyard and its humble occupants to light. As the description on Amazon.com notes, “This book tells the story of the old Sonoma County Cemetery, a place of burial for those who had no family, friends, or money to provide for themselves.”
New arrivals to the Genealogy collection also include a series on genealogical records of Essex County in Virginia, five volumes of tombstone inscriptions from Alexandria, Virginia and three volumes on land records of Chester County in Pennsylvania:
- Essex County, Virginia Marriage Records, Volume 1: 1850 - 1872
- Essex County, Virginia Marriage Records, Volume 2: 1873 – 1883
- Essex County, Virginia Cemeteries -- Volume 1
- Essex County, Virginia Cemeteries -- Volume 2
- Essex County, Virginia Newspaper Notices, 1738 - 1938
- Essex County, Virginia Newspaper Notices, Volume 2: 1736 – 1952
Nineteenth-century genealogical news from Hightstown, New Jersey and probate information from South Carolina round out our new book list: