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The Beginner's Guide to Using Tax Lists is Cornelius Carroll's primer for making the best genealogical usage of tax lists. At the outset the author differentiates between tax lists, quit rents, tithe tables, militia lists, censuses, and similar records and the laws that applied to them. Then, by focusing on the tax lists of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, he demonstrates how tax lists can be used for determining parentage, birth...

Contains over seven hundred top-ten lists on such subjects as the universe, humans, crime, culture, music, entertainment, food, transportation, and sports; and provides background information on the topics covered.

When sixteen-year-old Mallory learns that her boyfriend, Jeremy, is cheating on her with his cyber "wife," she rebels against technology by following her grandmother's list of goals from 1962, with help from her younger sister, Ginnie.

Get a head start on college success with this must-have guide to the books that college and university professors think are important--and why. Includes an annotated list of the 100 books most often recommended by the leading schools.

Provides information on searching passenger ship lists and indexes, naturalization and immigration records, and genealogical Websites to find records of ancestors who came to the United States on ships.

Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...

You know about the Naughty List, right? Well, this year the list includes: Ronnie Nutbog (who, I'm sorry to say it, is a great big bully) Ella Noying (who won't touch a single vegetable, especially Brussels sprouts) Marvin Johnson (who used to be the best big brother in the whole wide world) and ... William Trundle (the boy who saved Christmas ... twice! Blinking baubles!!!) But don't panic! The Christmasaurus is back, and he's on a mission to turn...

An illustrated selection of answers to the title's question, submitted online and collected by Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn and Jonnie Penn, collectively known as The Buried Life and featured in the MTV reality television series of the same name. Some answers include essays relating how the online submissions were accomplished. Also included are brief essays on how the four young men accomplished some of their lists' tasks and their experiences...