Not only are there specific family histories, but many volumes of materials published that pertain to an Area or Region. For example:
Abbott, Ackerly, Adams, Alvarez, Alden, Aldrich, Alford, Apgar, Aslebees,
Atherton, Atkinson, Averett, Ayer, Bailey, Baird, Balch, Ball, Bangs, Barbehenn,
Barnes, Barnett, Bartlett, Bassett, Batchelder, Blaisdell, Blair, Blackford,
Billiou, Bigelow, Bicknell, Beverage, Bent, Bennett, Belknap/Belnap, Belden,
Beamsley, Beardsley, Beal, Baxter, Baumeister, Blossom, Bonham, Bonnell,
Boone, Bortner, Bourne, Bouton/Boughton, Bowers, Bowman, Bowron, Bradford,
Bradley, Bradstreet, Bray, Briggs, Brigham, Brooks, Broomhead, Brophy,
Brown, Buchanan, Buck, Bullard, Bullock, Burton, Buser, Butterworth, Buttolph,
Byrd/Bird, Campbell, Carnes, Carpenter, Carroll, Catlin, Cessar/Caesar,
Chamberlain, Chandler, Chase, Chastain, Cheney, Chickering, Clark, Clement(s),
Cleveland, Cogan/ Coggen, Cogswells, Colepeper, Conger, Conrad, Cooley,
Cope, Coppenhaver, Coriell, Crane, Cross, Crosby, Crowell, Cubbedge, Cullen,
Cunningham, Currier, Currin/Curran, Curtis, Cushing, Cutler, Cutter, Damon/Dammen/
Diamond, Dumont/ Dumond, Davidson/ Davison, de Ayala, Dehart, Deming, Denbo,
Denison, Detray, Dexter, Dodge, Dudley, Dunn, Dunster, Dunston, Dwright,
Eliot, Emery, Faas (Fash), Felch, Felder/ Felderin, Fellows, Finley, Fischer/Fisher,
Fisk, Fletcher, Foote, Fosdick, Fowle, Fowler, Fraley, Frary, Frazer/Frazier,
Frye, Fuller, Gardner/Gardiner, Gauthier, Gault, Gay, Getz, Gilbert, Goddard,
Good, Goodale, Goodhue, Gould, Gove, Gray, Green(e), Greenwood, Gregory,
Griffith, Groff, Grover, Hall, Hammond, Hanscom, Hardy, Hartzog, Hatch,
Hatfield, Hayward, Heard/Herd/ Hird/ Hurd, Heidler, Hicks, Hildreth, Hilton,
Hoar, Hoff, Holman, Holt, Holton, Holtzapple, Hopkins, Hoskins, Hott, Howe,
Hoyt, Hubbard, Hudson, Hull, Hurlburt, Hutchinson, Ide, Ilgenfritz, Ingraham,
Jackson, Janney, Johnson, Jordan, Jouet, Kientz, Keller, Kelly, Kennedy,
Kern(s), Kilbourne, Kimball, Kingsley, Knauss, Knott, Koehler, Kramer,
Lafollette, Lane, Lanius, Larkin, LaRoche/LaRoach, Lathrop/Lothrop, Law,
Leach, Learned, Lee, Leech, Leland/Layland, Leslie, Libersky, Lillibridge,
Little, Lobdell, Long, Lord, Loring, Luther, Lyon, McCoy, McCauley, McLendon/MacLennan,
McLeod, McMikle, McNaughten, Maphet/Moffat, Marbury, Marlet/Merlette, Martiau,
Mason, Meeker, Meeks, Merriam, Merwin, Metcalf, Michael, Miller, Milligan/Mulligan,
Minot, Molleson, Moore, Morse, Mundy, Nash, Nave, Neville, Newcomb, Norman,
North, Ober, Oliver, O'Mahoney, Ormsby, Osgood, Ostrander, Ouderkirk, Owen,
Padgett, Paige, Paine, Palmer, Pangburn, Paris, Parke/Parks, Parmenter/Parmentier,
Partridge, Paston, Pearce, Peck, Pell, Penn, Pennimen, Peters, Phelps,
Pike, Poore, Post, Potocki, Potter, Pound, Prather, Presley, Pugh, Pyatt/Piatt,
Quattlebaum, Quincy, Ray (Rhea, Rae, Rea, Wray, etc.), Rayner/ Reyner,
Reams, Redfield, Reed, Reisinger, Reynolds, Rice, Richards, Richardson,
Rickey, Ring, Roache/Roche, Roberts, Robbins, Robinson, Rollo, Rose, Rowell,
Runyon, Russell, Sampson, Sams, Sanford, Sawyer, Schaeffer, Seabrook, Seaman,
Seney/Senay Senet/Sene, Sethick, Shanholtzer, Sheffield, Shepard/Sepherd,
Sherman, Sherrill, Shine, Shotwell, Sibbald, Simmonds/Symonds, Singer,
Skemp, Slane, Slonakers, Slutz, Smalley, Smith, Sotheron, Soule, Southworth,
Spann, Squires, Staub/Staeb, Stelle, Stemple, Sterne/Stearns, Stevens,
Stokely, Stone, Stranahan, Stgrausbaugh, Streikt, Strickhauser, Swartz,
Sylvester, Taft, Talbott, Tatum/Tatom, Terry, Thacker, Thurston, Tillinghast,
Tilson, Titcomb, Todd, Townsend, Treadway, Trotter, Throwbridge, Turnball,
Tybbot, Tyson, Tyrrell/Terrell/Terrrill, Vassall, Vining, Vinton, Wacha,
Waite, Wallace, Walker, Walling, Ward, Warner, Warren, Watson, Weathers,
Webb, Weld, Wells, Wentz, West, Whale, Wheeler, Whipple, Whitacre, White,
Whitehead, Whittier, Wigfield, Willard, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Winthrop,
Wise, Wiseman, Woodbury, Woodford, Woodward, Wright, Wurts, York, Young,
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