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The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215, and Some of Their Descendants Who Settled in America During the Early Colonial Years

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While there are numerous reference works relating the descendancy of the Magna Charta Barons, this one is concise, documented and continues across the Atlantic to the early Colonists of North America. Being unencumbered with commentaries on historical events, this book reveals lineage after lineage after lineage providing the researcher with an invaluable tool to document centuries of family history.

This book is an excellent resource for those researching descents from one of the Magna Carta Barons or those named in the preamble as advisors to King John. Each line is accompanied by a list of sources for the descent from one of the Barons to an American Colonist.

I bought this for the wife who has been exploring her family history ... it's an invaluable guide for those who are really serious about Genealogy ... she loves it ...

The scholarship is excellent, well organized and thorough, although the selection of descendants seems somewhat arbitrary. One wonders how they were selected. The appearance of the book, however, is not as described or pictured. The ad has a handsome black or navy blue book. The one that arrived was not.