BURKE'S PEERAGE & GENTRY DIGITIZES HISTORICAL DATA.Americans can celebrate the President's Day holiday by researching their favorite president using a new online database produced by Burke's Peerage Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage is an authoritative, in-depth historical guide to the titled families of the United Kingdom. Founded in 1826 by British genealogist John Burke, and continued by his son, Sir John Bernard Burke, Burke's Peerage is one of the most & Gentry, a UK-based genealogical reference publisher, developed in conjunction with systems integrator Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc. Burke's Peerage & Baronetage bar·on·et·age n. 1. Baronets considered as a group. 2. The rank or dignity of a baronet. 3. A list of baronets. Noun 1. and Burke's Landed Gentry Noun 1. landed gentry - the gentry who own land (considered as a class) squirearchy gentry, aristocracy - the most powerful members of a society landed gentry n (Brit) → have been the definitive source for genealogical information on leading families for nearly two centuries. The American Presidential Families database is the latest addition to the recently launched Burke's Peerage & Gentry's American Families of British Descent online resource (http://www.burkes-american-presidents.com). In addition to ancestries and descendants of the 43 American presidents, the database includes personal essays, family essays, and family trees This is an index of family trees available. It includes noble, politically important and royal families as well as fictional families and thematic diagrams. Europe
"With the launch of this database, Americans can now research the genealogical backgrounds of U.S. presidents and discover how their families are linked to ancestors from England, Scotland, and Ireland," said Michael Cross Group Captain Michael Cross OBE RAFR is the Chief of Staff of the Air Cadet Organisation. Trek to the South Pole On 17 January 2003 Mike Cross, aged 60, became the eldest person to travel to the South Pole and, along with his son William Cross, became the first diabetes , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Burkes Peerage peerage Body of peers or titled nobility in Britain. The five ranks, in descending order, are duke, marquess, earl (see count), viscount, and baron. Until 1999, peers were entitled to sit in the House of Lords and exempted from jury duty. & Gentry. The database shows the many links between American presidents and the families of British Peers or Baronets. For example, George Washington and the Lords Fairfax, the Adamses and the Downing baronets, James K. Polk and the family of Lord Newton, and Teddy Roosevelt and the Lords Newton. Since its launch at the beginning of 2002, the Burke's Peerage & Gentry Web site has developed into a substantial and popular resource covering UK history and heritage, delivering 3.5 million pages to a global audience. The Burke's Peerage & Gentry database now contains more than one million names, within over 7,000 genealogies, some of which date back to the 8th and 9th Centuries, and continues to grow. "We collaborated with Burke's Peerage & Gentry editors to digitize the historical data, working directly from ancient records and texts," said Peter Camilleri, managing director, ThomasTech-Europe. "With our experience in converting and managing complex data and our expertise in building electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. solutions, we worked together with Burke's to organize and deliver this rich depth of information about a perennially popular topic - the history and background of the American presidents." ThomasTech also designed the Web page and built a database using Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. (TM) to store and retrieve the data. Researchers can even locate family trees and print them from their computers as PDF files. In addition, ThomasTech developed a custom e-commerce module to facilitate subscription-based purchasing so that consumers can buy additional content from the Burke's Web site. About Thomas Tech Thomas Technology Solutions (UK) Ltd is a division of Thomas Technology Solutions, Inc., a software and systems integrator providing content management and publishing solutions and services to commercial publishers and industrial manufacturers. ThomasTech builds solutions by combining industry-leading third-party software, custom-developed components, and value-added integration, implementation, and production services. Headquartered in Horsham, Pa., with additional offices in London, UK, ThomasTech is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Thomas Publishing Company. ThomasTech maintains partner relationships with Arbortext, Inc., Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. , Documentum, Inc. Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, and SAQQARA(R) Systems, Inc. For more information, visit www.thomastechsolutions.com. About Burke's Peerage & Gentry Burke's Peerage & Gentry is a leading reference publisher. For further information, visit http://www.burkes-peerage.net or email admin@burkes-landed-gentry.com. For more information, call 212/725-2295. |
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