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Title: La Noblesse de Nouvelle-France: families
et alliances
Author: Lorraine Gadoury
Rating: A
Online Review: This book is a historical demographic study of
French nobles in Canada. The extensive lists and bibliographies, what she
offers are the best
places to start to see if you have a French Canadian ancestor who was
noble and to check if there is anything published on that family. Be warned
she does miss some nobles, for example, she does not list Catherine Baillon.
Title: Enciclopedia Heraldica y genealogica
Author: A & A Garcia Caraffa
Published: 1919, Madrid
Rating: B
Online Review: Coloured coat-of-arms and genealogies of Spanish
nobility, from a few lines up to a hundred pages per family, with the usual
absence of dates, especially for the medieval period. But it is an essential
reference.
Title: L'Allemagne Dynastique les 15
families qui ont tait l'Europe
-7 volumes-
Author: Alain Giraud, Michel Huberty, F & B Magdelaine
Published: from 1981 onwards
Rating: A
Online Review: Painstaking, extremely detailed and meticulous
genealogies of Germany's highest nobility. It compares and corrects all
previous books on the subject, obviously, no effort was spared in tracking
down original documents. In some cases (e.g. Lippe), whole "new" branches
are added to those supposedly well-studied families! The "Familles nobles
alliées" (details on allied families) are just a bit weaker, as
it relies more on printed sources but giving all these the same thorough
treatment would not have been feasible
Title: The House of Bonaparte 1640-1965
Author: D.W. M. Grant
Published: 1966, Melbourne
Rating: A
Online Review: Very good, also gives brief biographies, including
for the Leon and Walewski families, portraits, letters, also a list of
publications by members of the Bonaparte family, as well as a substantial
bibliography.
Title: The Roman Emperors
A biographical guide to the rulers of Imperial Rome 31BC - AD 476
Author: Michael Grant
Published: 1985
Publisher: republished by Barnes & Noble by arrangement with Scribner,
an imprint of Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0-76070-091-5
Rating: A
Online Review: A valuable reference work that provides biographical
information on all of the Roman Emperors.
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