Here is a list of works I have consulted extensively and may be of interest to you. It does not include works I consulted briefly and, without exception, I own each one of these and they remain on my shelves where I consult them regularly. I have endeavored to include only those works that are produced with a high degree of scholarship, accuracy, etc.

Cape Cod History (Alphabetical by Author)

Deyo, Simeon L. The History of Barnstable County Massachusetts. New York: H.W. Blake and Co., 1890

Digges, Jeremiah. Cape Cod Pilot. Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press, 1937.

Freeman, Frederick. The History of Cape Cod, Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County. 2 volumes. Boston: W.H. Piper & Co., 1869.

Hopkins, Giles E. This Is All There Is, the Complete Uncle Giles (as Alaways, With Apologies to Abner Dean). edited by Bill Downs. Conceptual Web & Data Services, 2004.

Kittredge, Henry C. Cape Cod, It's People and Their History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930.

Kittredge, Henry C. Mooncussers of Cape Cod. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.

Pratt, Rev. Enoch. A Comprehensive History, Eccesiastical and Civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans, County of Barnstable, Mass. From 1664 to 1844. Yarmouth, Massachusetts: W.S. Fisher and Co., 1844

Smith, Leonard H. Jr., editor. Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, a Facsimile Edition of 108 Pamphlets Published in the Early 20th Century. 2 volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992.

Smith, William C. A History of Chatham, Massachusetts, Formerly the Constablewick or Village of Monomoit. fourth edition. Chatham, Massachusetts: The Chatham Historical Society, 1992.

Snow, Edward Rowe. A Pilgrim Returns to Cape Cod. Beverly, Massachusetts: Commonwealth Editions, 2003.

Genealogies (Alphabetical by Author)

Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. 3 volumes. Boston: The Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.

Anderson, Robert Charles, George F. Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-1635. 4 volumes (more to come in the future) Boston: The Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999-2005

Anderson, Robert Charles. The Complete Great Migration Newsletter Volumes 1-10. Boston: The Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002.

Anderson, Robert Charles. The Pilgrim Migration, Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633. Boston: The Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.

Austin, John D. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Six: Stephen Hopkins. second edition. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1995.

Freeman, Frederick. The Freeman Genealogy in Three Parts. Boston: Franklin Press, 1875.

Higgins, Katherine Chapin. Richard Higgins, a Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and Piscataway, New Jersey and His Descendants. Worcester, Massachusetts: printed for the author, 1913.

Higgins, Katherine Chapin. Supplement to Richard Higgins and His Descendants. Worcester, Massachusetts: printed for the author, 1924.

Hopkins, Giles E. This Is All There Is, the Complete Uncle Giles (as Alaways, With Apologies to Abner Dean). edited by Bill Downs. Conceptual Web & Data Services, 2004.

Mayo, Mrs. Jean. Mayo Genealogy as Compiled by Elna Jean (May) Mayo. manuscript. 1965.

Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers, Originally Published in the Barnstable Patriot. 2 volumes bound as 1. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1991.

Roberts, Gary Boyd, editor. Genealogies of Mayflower Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 3 volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985.

Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. 4 volumes. Boston: 1860-1862.

Smith, Leonard H. Jr., editor. Cape Cod Library of Local History and Genealogy, a Facsimile Edition of 108 Pamphlets Published in the Early 20th Century. 2 volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992.

Westgate, Alice W.A., revised by Ann T. Reeves. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Nineteen: Thomas Rogers. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000.

Wynn, Rachel Linnell. The Descendants of Robert Linnell. second edition. Baltimore: Gateway Press Inc., 1994.

Mayflower & Plymouth Colony (Alphabetical by Author)

Banks, Charles Edwards. The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers. Reprint of the 1929 original with additions and corrections, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001.

Harris, Rendel & Stephen K. Jones. The Pilgrim Press, a Bibliographical & Historical Memorial of the Books Printed at Leyden by the Pilgrim Fathers, limited edition of 600 copies. Nieuwkoop, Netherlands: De Graaf Publishers, 1987.

Nickerson, W. Sears. Land Ho! 1620, a Seaman's Story of the Mayflower, Her Construction, Her Navigation, and Her First Landfall. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1997.

Stratton, Eugene Aubrey. Plymouth Colony, Its History & People 1620-1691. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1986.

Massachusetts & New England History (Alphabetical by Author)

Snow, Edward Rowe. Storms and Shipwrecks of New England. Beverly, Massachusetts: Commonwealth Editions, 2003.

Compiled Records (Alphabetical by Author)

Bowman, George Ernest, editor. Gravestone Records in the Ancient Cemetery and the Woodside Cemetery, Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1906.

Bowman, George Ernest, editor. Vital Records of the Town of Brewster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1904.

Bowman, George Ernest, editor. Vital Records of the Town of Halifax, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1905.

Bowman, George Ernest, editor. Vital Records of the Town of Truro, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1933.

Roberts, Gary Boyd, editor. Mayflower Source Records, Primary Data Concerning Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, and the Islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1986.

Roser, Susan E., editor. Mayflower Births & Deaths, From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. 2 volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1992.

Roser, Susan E., editor. Mayflower Deeds & Probates, From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994.

Roser, Susan E., editor. Mayflower Marriages, From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1990.

Sanborn, Melinde Lutz. Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003. (Note: Contains qall of the information from the previous two supplements. See below for the Original by Clarence Almon Torrey.)

Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1985. (Note: See above for the Supplement by Melinde Lutz Sanborn)

Genealogical Research (Alphabetical by Author)

Garner, Bryan A., editor. Black's Law Dictionary, second pocket edition. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Group, 2001.

Greenwood, Val D. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy, third edition. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000.

Harris, Maurine and Glen. Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1989.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997.

Other Works (Alphabetical by Author)

Snow, Edward Rowe. Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast. Beverly, Massachusetts: Commonwealth Editions, 2004.

Periodicals (Alphabetical by Name)

The American Genealogist. Demorest Georgia: David L. Greene, currently in publication.

Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. Westminster, Colorado: Association of Professional Genealogists, currently in publication.

The Great Migration Newsletter. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, currently in publication.

The Mayflower Descendant Magazine. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. volumes 1-34, 1899-1937.

The Mayflower Quarterly. Plymouth, Massachusetts: The General Society of Mayflower Descendants, currently in publication.

National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical Society, currently in publication.

New England Ancestor. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, currently in publication.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: New Englan Historic Genealogical Society, currently in publication.

NGS News Magazine. Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical Society, currently in publication.

Pilgrim Notes & Queries. Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. volumes 1-5, 1913-1917.

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