Happy Holidays! For many years I have posted the books that the Genea-Santa has put under my Christmas Tree. This year was a big haul of new books to read! I hope that now that Christmas and Three Kings have passed, I can start to read the Christmas books I received this holiday season. I hope you enjoy this blog post, and that you find a book or two you might like to read, too. Here they are in no particular order-
A few months ago I heard that Heritage books was having a sale on their genealogy books, so I made a list of some of the titles that might help me with my family tree. Genea-Santa ordered three of those books, wrapped them up, and delivered them in time for Christmas. Thank you Genea-Santa! This volume about the Greenleaf family includes my ancestor Captain Edmund Greenleaf, who was born before 2 January 1574 in Ipswich, Suffolk England, and died in Boston on 24 March 1671. I descend from two of his children - Judith, who married Tristam Coffin, and Stephen Greenleaf, who married Elizabeth Coffin (two Greenleaf siblings married two Coffin siblings). I haven't written up a Greenleaf "Surname Saturday" blog post yet, but this book should help!
This is another book published by Heritage Books. It is a reprint of a book I have referred to often in my family tree research. I do not descend from Thomas Pierce, but I have found many of his descendants in my family tree through marriages and other kinships.
This book
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia Edwards is a book I am looking forward to reading. This book is also a reprint, since the original is long out of print (1877). It is a classic book about early Egyptologists, and Amelia Edwards was a pioneering woman in exploring Egypt in Victorian times. She was also the inspiration for the fictional character Amelia Peabody in a modern series of mystery novels about archeaology in Egypt in the 1800. I read many of the Amelia Peabody books before my own trip down the Nile River in 2023, and I can't wait to read the real story written by the real "Amelia".
This is the third book published by Heritage Books on my Genea-Santa list. It is the complied genealogy of the Crosby family and descendants of Simon Crosby. He is my 9th great grandfather, born about 1609 in Holme-on-theSpaulding-Moor, Cambridge, England, and he died in September 1639 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I descend from his eldest son, Thomas Crosby, who settled in Eastham on Cape Cod. My line of Crosbys eventually removed to Nova Scotia during the Planter Movement. You can read more about my Crosby lineage at this 2012 blog post:
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/08/surname-saturday-crosby.html
The last book from Genea-Santa was this lovely edition of Mark Twain's
Innocents Abroad. When I was a girl we read
Huckleberry Finn in school, and then I borrowed many other of Twains books from the library, but
Innocents Abroad was always my favorite. I reread this book online before our trip to Egypt, and now I can reread it before our next trip to Europe. It's still a funny book with many thoughtful insights on American tourists, and it still makes me laugh. This is a boxed book with a fine cover, and I've never owned a copy of
Innocents Abroad.
For the truly curious:
Christmas Books 2023
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-did-genea-santa-bring-christmas.html
Christmas Books 2022
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-did-genea-santa-bring-christmas.html
Christmas Books 2021
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/01/what-did-genea-santa-bring-christmas.html
Christmas Books 2020
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/01/what-did-genea-santa-bring-christmas.html
Christmas Books 2019
To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "What did Genea-Santa Bring? Christmas Books 2024", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 14, 2025, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/01/what-did-genea-santa-bring-christmas.html: accessed [access date]).
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