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'll d a gap in genealogical literature.
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book for~ wo~ nAssistant Professor and Supervisor of Genealog- war an e settlect at h
f that eonflict. There are no comparable official . t e conclusion
Mr Wnght ts a at Brigham Young University. The book 0
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ch Techno ogy ·nees al though Esther C. Wright's TheL . hsts for the other
ical Resear . t notes which seem to have been rushed into Provt . . _ ovahsts f
d n hts lee ure
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. k (1955) and Manon Gllroy's Loyalists~ ~New Bruns-
is base th ught or planning - apparently w1thout any edit- WlC . h. and land - --....;.::.
print without care, o ;.--- Seotia (PubhcArc 1ves of NovaScotia -pb:-- ~ment in
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=---e in great part remed1ed the situation for 'h n o. 4, 1937)
ing at all. is referred toby a cryptic ward or phrase aftcr haV " ose part·
So often a slource ber at the BYU library is cited. This is fine if list bastions. tcular Loy-
hich the cal num . . a Mr. Rubincam in his interesting introduction .
w h the source in questwn can easlly be checked 10 5
one is at BYU w ere . " . ' nQ!d U .E .L. List" with additions down to ·s thinenft . ~ that this
. baffl d for example by the followmg: Umted Empire
1798 1
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but one ts e • ' . . f persans who are entlt ed to the appellation of U 'ted . ts er
e o fic 1al reg· t
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Loyahsts ( n ex to persons who mtgrated mto or were connected o . f . nl Emptre Lo Y-
list and that lts cutof date 1s such that names dd d
d r ~:0 und things here)." One wonders what kmd of things.
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wtth Cana a. 1 ' • . be accepted as bel ongmg to the Loyalists. This is tru h' .
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1 ater can not
h y are peo
And w Ple Who were only "connected" wlth Canada mcluded? . . e lStorteally
speaking, but lt 1s noteworthy that names were added to th . .
One wonders. . . Th . . . ta e hst m
An outline of sources relating to New York State 1s prmted on later years. 1s 1s rmpor nt genealogically as once a person's
name was entered on the U. E. List, whether rightfully
pp. 10-11 and is repeated almost verbatim on pp. 14-15. Such repe- . t·tl d . . 50 or not,
titions are numerous, far too numerous for a volume as slender as his ch!ldren were en 1 e to add1honal land grants of 1\\o hundred
this one. There is an excellent guide to sources of research in New acres each as they came of age or married. One can expect, there-
York City, but this was abstracted from a work by Miss Rosalie fore, to find information re garding such families in the land petitions
Fellows Bailey. There is also an excellent introductory section on at the Public Archives of Canada and in the Crown Lands records
Canada, but this is an acknowledged verbatim reprinting of Tracing at the Ontario Archives. The so called "2nd U. E. List'' containing-
your ancestors in Canada published by the Public Archives of Canada some of these added names is in the Crown Lands Department at
in 1966. And so it goes. Toronto; a copy is also in the Public Archives of Canada.
One who is first beginning work in an area covered in the book This most welcome reprint is important for historical studies of
will probably gain more than three dollars worth of tips as to where the Loyalists and is an indispensable reference work for North A.m-
erican genealogy.
to begin, but it is not the sort of book that the more experienced
genealogist will read and re-read for continually fresh insights into
the area of his study. ~ ~ the Huguenots in Europe, the United States, South
of
~rica~ Canada, by G. Elmore Reaman. Addenda et corrige11da
The following books have been published by the Genealogical Pub- by Milton Rubincam. (1963) 1966. 318 p. cloth 6. 50
lishing Company, 521-23 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, Md. 21202, and
are available from that Company: The dispersion of the Huguenots is a vast topic spanning decades,
centuries even, in many different spheres of the globe. Dr _Re~an

t the mater1al m an
United Empire Loyalist Centennial Committee. Toronto. The 2!È. has k ept control of his great tapie ·nd pres en s
~fnited Empire Loyalists ~· (Originally published as Ce~nial int eresting manner The author took up the subJeCt after he came
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- ~ settlement of ~ Canada ~ the United Empire Loyalis~. to r 1· . · en• in Canada, an ·
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, It was
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ea 1ze that there was not a Huguenot socl 'J
~- 8 ). With a new introduction by Milton Rubincam F.A. S. G., lndeed h . · th~t C'l1Unh.).
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h • t at the word was sc are ely kno\\ n • t societv of
Honorary Vice-President, Ontario Genealogical Society. '334p. (1 885 ) s oru f k th t the HU•!UellO u •
1969. 10.00 elath. 0 Y a ter the publication of his boo · a ::- . rk~ inter-
nta · , 1ftlwse\\O ~
. rto Was formed thus making the book one l . •t. time.
esttng · . t" ·e force 10 1 :;
The heart of th·s k · h ln ltself but also valuable as a crea 1\ • f hi~ courern
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settled in 0 t . wor 18 the very important list of Loyalists w 0 Dr .R b · t œcau:;e o ~
n ar10 at the clos f th . . war. abo eaman also in part took up the su wc h t the Huguenots
The list indic t th e 0 e Amertean Revolutwnary P l ut the lack of knowledge regarding the rolel t ·ahich has large!)
a es e nature of the Loyalist's service during the ayed · th , ~ ·t ro e ''
b ln e development of New Franc t: • •
een wr·t
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ten out of history.