NGSQ, Volume 99, No. 2, June 2011 Now Available

NGS is happy to announce that a new issue of the NGSQ, Volume 99, No.2, June 2011 (PDF 2.5MB) is now available to NGS members.

Here is the table of contents for this issue:

Feature Articles

Documents and DNA Identify a Little-Known Lee Family in Virginia

Judy Kellar Fox ^CG 85

Illegitimacy, Desertion, and Divorce: Using Indirect Evidence to Find Nicholas Mauer of Dromersheim

Karen Mauer Green ^CG 97

Dirkje Vanalstine, Dorothy Porter, Dorcas Carroll: One and the Same Woman?

Brenda Dougall Merriman, cg 115

Which Isaac Purnell was Esau’s Father? Unraveling Relationships in Wiltshire

Marci Despain ^CG, AG 145

Notes and Documents

Using Freedman’s Bank Registers to Trace Enslaved Families: A South Carolina McFall Example

Morna Lahnice Hollister 125

Village Jews in Imperial Russia’s Nineteenth-Century Minsk Governorate Viewed through a Genealogical Lens

Neville Lamdan, D.Phil. 133

Communications 81

Editors’ Corner

Time for Tenets 83

NGS Administration 84

Sidelights

A Woman Soldier [Abstracts from an Interview with Colonel Charley Richardson] 114

The War of 1812 Looms 124

Editor’s Note: Remember that members are able to access the NGSQ Archives as part of their membership.

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