Gates Families of America Genealogy Books
Reference: “Records of the Gates Families of America from the Colonial Period to 1860”, Third Edition, Volumes I and II, published February 2000 by Robert Cady Gates.
A thirty-page supplement is available, via e-mail attachment, free of charge to those who have ordered copies of the books referenced above. Please contact me ([email protected]) if you are interested and I will send the supplement.
Another printing of the two-volume set of books was recently completed, and the two volumes may be ordered by mailing $39 (this includes shipping) to me at the following address:
Robert C. Gates
8337 Pavilion Drive
Hudson, FL 34667-6560
e-mail: [email protected]
A copy of the supplement will also be included, free of charge, with all new orders for the books.
Major topics covered in “Records of the Gates Families of America from the Colonial Period to 1860”--
* Records of more than 15,000 early Americans with the surname Gates. Almost all early American Gates families are documented.
* More than 6,000 marriage records indexed by the names of both bride and groom.
* A total of 1,815 individual sources are listed, with each record documented by source.
* The meaning of the Gates surname and the German surname Gotz (spelled with an umlaut) which was frequently anglicized to Gates.
* Biographies of prominent Americans named Gates, past and present, and their ancestry, including General Horatio Gates, Sir Thomas Gates, “Bet-a-Million” Gates, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, a Vice President of the US, a first lady, and many others.
* Discussion of Gates heraldry with a color illustration of the coat of arms attributed to the Stephen Gates line.
* National origins of the Gates families of America and the truth about the English ancestry of Stephen Gates.
* Pioneer American Gates families, northern and southern, and their migration patterns.
* Gates family demographics, marriage and family statistics, naming practices of the early Gates families, and more.
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