Libraries & Books
Rambo books in public libraries
6 Dec 2014 last update
Books available for purchase . . . . . . . . . and in some libraries as listed below
1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware . . purchase price $40 - an exceptional value
. . . . . . . . . . Order from: Gloria Dei (I'll add ordering info next update)
Cramer-King History . . . . . . . purchase from OraFlan@aol.com; be sure to get the CD
I would like to continue to expand this page to make it easier for Rambo researchers to locate copies of books of interest. If you know of other books that should be on this page, or other locations holding books of interest to Rambos, please send an e-mail with that information to rsbeatty@gmail.com. Thanks.
I've included links to on-line library catalogs at the bottom of this page.
Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . library
The Rambo Family Tree by Beverly Nelson Rambo (1987)
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. . . . . . . . . I've been informed that the Rambo Family Tree is also at these libraries
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1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware by Peter Stebbins Craig
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Genealogy and History of the Related Keyes, North and Cruzen Families by Millard F. Stipes
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Descendants of Caleb North by Dexter North
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Bacon and Allied Families by John Dean Bacon
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The Prestages of Porterville by Rod Homer
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Ancestors and Descendants of Lucy Ann and George Ephraim Cleaver Bennett by Nina K. Bennett Wilkerson and Dorothy Wilkerson Bertine (This is a beautiful work. See it if you can.)
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mormon Family History Center, Salt Lake City, UT has some kind of a copy
Cramer-King History by Ora Flaningam
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. . The following books are all at the Allen Co. Pub. Lib., Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Amandus Johnson The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware
Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania vols 1 & 2 [no more yet]
Our Prestage Family Line 1976 by Rod Homer
Journal & Biography of Nicholas Collin
The Swedes in America 1914
Bankston Cousins by Anne Haigler
The Rambo Family Tree by Kay Cook
These library catalogs are available on-line (See CyndisList also)
http://www.cslib.org/archives.htm . . . Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT.
A wonderful repository. Web site allows searches of their collections.
www.acpl.lib.in.us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Click on catalog
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us . . Maryland State Archives (Hall of Records), Annapolis, MD.
Their complete microfilm inventory is on-line.
www.nehgs.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. Click on Search
http://opac.hsp.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First . . .Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
http://www.berksweb.com/histsoc . . . Berks Co., PA Historical Society
for recent Rieff, Rupp and Rutter genealogies. also Robeson, Ohlwein, Moore, Lawrence, King, Jones, Hulings, Hughes, Faust, Dieffenbach, DeHaven, Coates, Bull
http://rediscov.sc.gov/scar/ . . . South Carolina Archives in Columbia, SC . Has some original records on-line
http://libcat.csd.sc.edu/ . . . . . . . . . . . (select) Columbia South Caroliniana Library (at USC)
http://www.greenvillelibrary.org/ . . . . . Greenville, South Carolina has the best genealogical library in the state
http://www.lva.lib.va.us . . . . . . . . . . . The Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia . .
has original records on-line including
http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us . . . . . . . . . . . original Virginia land records plats at the Library of Virginia (above)
http://www.familysearch.org . . . Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah . . FHL catalog search screen
http://www.Valleylibraries.org . . . . . . . Augusta County public library in Waynesboro, Virginia
has an excellent collection
http://www.wrhs.org/library/template.asp?id=145 . . . Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.
https://halan.sdp.sirsi.net/client/hou . . . . Clayton Library in Houston, Texas has a good collection.
http://catalog.mdpls.org/default.aspx?ctx=1.1033 . . . . Miami-Dade Public Library in Miami, Florida
has an excellent collection, well worth visiting.
An excellent list of Philadelphia area genealogical locations is at http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/8088/philly.html
And several Genweb sites have much of interest for Rambo researchers:
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usergenweb/pa/montgomery/history/local . . . Montgomery Co., PA Genweb site
http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/augusta2.html . . . Augusta Co., VA Rootsweb site
gives good list of on-line resources
Click here to return to the the Rambo family genealogy main page.
Pages of personal interest: Eve's Garden Organic Bed and Breakfast, a wonderful, eclectic, artistic papercrete alternative living learning mecca in Marathon, Texas,
Rambo family genealogy, Bankston & Bankson family genealogy, the Camblin family genealogy, the Dorsey Overturff family, cousin Jean's Schenck and Hageman genealogy,