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• Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), by Laurie Nussdorfer (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Departmental Committee on Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles in Great Britain and Ireland: Interim Report (London: HMSO, 1920), by Great Britain Ministry of Transport (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mailo System in Buganda: A Preliminary Case Study in African Land Tenure (1965), by Henry W. West (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Issues in Customary Land Law (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Institute of National Affairs, 1989), by Robert Cooter (PDF at bepress.com)

• The Mailo System in Buganda: A Preliminary Case Study in African Land Tenure (1965), by Henry W. West (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899), by Charles C. Royce, contrib. by Cyrus Thomas (PDF at MSU)

• Connecticut; Old John Uncas and the Greater Part of the Tribe of Moheagan Indians, by Samuel Mason Their Guardian, Appellants; The Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America, and George Richards, Esq. ,and Several Other Persons, Intruders on the Lands in Question, Respondents: The Appellants Case (ca. 1770), by Charles Yorke and Fowler Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Status of Certain Land Held in Trust for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians: Hearing Before the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second session, on S. 1967 (Washington: GPO, 2000), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Caucasians Only: The Supreme Court, the NAACP, and the Restrictive Covenant Cases (third printing; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), by Clement E. Vose (multiple formats at Google)
• People vs. Property: Race Restrictive Covenants in Housing (Nashville: Fisk University Press, 1947), by Herman H. Long and Charles Spurgeon Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plain Facts: Being an Examination Into the Rights of the Indian Nations of America to Their Respective Countries (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken, 1781), by Samuel Wharton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Detailed Report Upon All Claims to Land and Right to Participate in the North-West Half-Breed Grant By Settlers Along the South Saskatchewan and Vicinity West of Range 26, W. 2nd Meridian: Being the Settlements Commonly Known As St. Louis De Langevin, St. Laurent or Batoche and Duck Lake (1886), by William Pearce (page images at Alberta)

• Facts Relative to the Canadian Indians (London: Harvey and Darton, 1839), by Society of Friends Meeting for Suferings (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Affairs in the Indian Territory (Washington: GPO, 1907), by United States Department of the Interior (page images at Google; US access only)

• Claim Number One (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1922), by George W. Ogden, illust. by J. Allen St. John (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Genealogy in the Library (Manchester, NH: J. B. Clarke Co., 1906), by Otis Grant Hammond
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet (electronic edition), by Cyndi Howells (HTML at cyndislist.com)

• Almanach de Gotha (partial serial archives)
• Essex Institute Historical Collections (partial serial archives)
• Genealogy (1912-1930) (full serial archives)
• Personhistorisk Tidskrift (in Swedish) (partial serial archives)
• Historical Collections of the Essex Institute (full serial archives)

• Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650: The Lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Some of Their Descendants (second edition; 1951), by Frederick Lewis Weis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Families Directly Descended From All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to 1932), and Mayflower Descendants (Burlington, VT: Free Press Printing Co., 1932), by Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America, by American Historical Company (partial serial archives)
• "Of Sceptred Race" (Memphis: Early Printing and Publishing Co., 1910), by Annah Robinson Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass.; His English Ancestry and His Descendants; Other Abell Families and Immigrants; Abell Families in England (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Pub. Co., 1940), by Horace Avery Abell and Lewis Parker Abell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richmond, William and Timothy Terrell, Colonial Virginians (Greenfield, IN: Mitchell Co., 1934), by Celeste Jane Terrell Barnhill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings (second edition; Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1891), by Charles Henry Browning (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Genealogy of the Southworths (Southards), Descendants of Constant Southworth, With a Sketch of the Family in England (Boston: Fort Hill Press, 1905), by Samuel Gilbert Webber
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Royal Lineage: Alfred the Great, 901-1901 (Richmond: Whittet and Shepperson, printers, 1901), by Annah Robinson Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marks-Barnett Families and Their Kin (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1939), by Marion Dewoody Pettigrew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joseph West and Jane Owen (Greenfield, IN: W. Mitchell Printing Co., ca. 1930), by Celeste Jane Terrell Barnhill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Island, and Dungan Genealogy (Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Co., ca. 1922), by Alfred Rudulph Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionary of Royal Lineage of Europe and Other Countries, From the Earliest Period to the Present Date: Compiled From Official Records and Other Recognized Authorities, With Alphabetical Index (2 volumes; Chicago: Press of S. T. Almberg, 1902-1904), by Carl Magnus Allström (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abstracts of Old Ninety-Six and Abbeville District Wills and Bonds, as on File in the Abbeville, South Carolina, Courthouse (Greenville, SC: Printed by Greenville Printing Co., 1950), by Willie Pauline Young (page images at HathiTrust)

• Warriors of Color (c1995), by Harold Ray Sayre (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• History of the County of Ayr; With a Genealogical Account of the Families of Ayrshire (2 volumes; 1847-1852), by James Paterson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• A History of Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1800, Including the Early History of That Part Now Brewster, With Some Account of Its Indian Inhabitants (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1937), by Josiah Paine (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Frosts and Related Families of Bedford County, Tennessee (Knoxville, TN: Privately printed, c1962), by Wright W. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical Sketch of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, Mass. (Northampton, MA: Hopkins, Bridgman and Co., 1852), by Mark Doolittle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• County Genealogies: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Surrey (3 volumes in 1; London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1837), by William Berry (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Berlin, Connecticut (New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co., 1916), by Catharine M. North, ed. by Adolph B. Benson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Livermore's History of Block Island, Rhode Island: Originally Printed 1877, Reproduced and Enhanced by the Block Island Committee of Republication for the Block Island Tercentenary Anniversary (1961), by S. T. Livermore, ed. by Nathan Tufts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A History of Block Island, From its Discovery, in 1514, to the Present Time, 1876 (Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Brainard Co., 1877), by S. T. Livermore
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Old Plantation Days, by N. B. De Saussure (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (4 volumes; New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1908), ed. by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, 1620-1800, Including the Early History of That Part Now Brewster, With Some Account of Its Indian Inhabitants (Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 1937), by Josiah Paine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of Brooks History (Dover, NH: Printed by J. B. Page Printing Co., c1935), ed. by Seth W. Norwood (page images at HathiTrust)

• County Genealogies: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Surrey (3 volumes in 1; London: Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1837), by William Berry (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.