[Genealib] New Howes Family Genealogy Published

[Peter Howes]

    Major Publication Announcement

           The Dennis Historical Society and the Howes Family Association
                       announce the  limited edition of the NEW

                                        Howes Genealogy
                                            1637-2004

                       by Robert A. Howes, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret)

670+ pages, 8 1/2 x 11, hardcover, bound in Royal Blue Buckram
leatherette with gold embossing & sealed in plastic

First Howes Genealogy to be published in 114 years - since the 1892 book
by Joshua Crowell Howes.

The Howes Genealogy, the culmination of over forty years effort by the
author, is a crucial and significant milestone
achievement and completely documents the family throughout the United
States and elsewhere.

This fully indexed Howes Genealogy contains thirteen generations of the
Descendants of Thomas and Mary (Burr) Howes
of Yarmouth, MA as well as partial genealogies of other Howes families
in America. It is complete with important photographs,
notable appendices and other material of substantial interest.

Available by December 2006. www.dennishistsoc.org/DHSbooks/

                                                also

                            Dennis Source Records   Volume 1:
                                        Church Records
            Transcriptions of the Town of Dennis, Massachusetts
                       compiled by  Burton Nathaniel Derick

704 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, hardcover, blue cloth with gold embossing

The perfect companion piece to the new Howes Genealogy. This marvelous
volume is an absolute must have for genealogists,
historians and anyone whose ancestry originated in Dennis or who has an
interest in early Cape Cod History. This first volume
contains five sections, each separately indexed and featuring a separate
church.


Historian Derick points out that these church records contain valuable
genealogical information not found anywhere else except
in the early church vital records for all families with Cape Cod
heritage. This book also provides an extensive and fascinating insight
into the lives and customs of these early Cape Cod inhabitants.

More details & order at: www.dennishistsoc.org/DHSbooks/

                            Special Internet Pricing on

                    Privateers, Pirates and Beyond:
                Memoirs of Lucy Lord Howes Hooper
    Transcribed by her Great Granddaughter  Gerry Watters

377 pages, hardcover, light blue cloth with gold embossing

This fascinating true story is an exact word-by-word transcription of a
diary kept from 1862 through 1909.
It begins when Lucy, a young woman from Dennis, Massachusetts,
accompanies her merchant sea captain husband Benjamin Perkins
 Howes aboard the clipper ship Southern Cross. Journal entries include
 dramatic descriptions of the ship's capture by privateers.
 One subsequent voyage involves an encounter with Chinese
pirates en route from Hong Kong to Japan, culminating in frightful tragedy.


More details & order at: www.dennishistsoc.org/DHSbooks/