Publisher's Synopsis
The Riggin Family of Delmarva Volume 1 is the most comprehensive, factually based and referenced compilation of thousands of Riggin (and Riggen, Riggan, Riggins, Riggens) names, found in original colonial and "birth of the United States" era - and beyond - records of the Eastern Shore that has been published to date. Through meticulously researched, documented and referenced original records, together with family provided first source records, the names and lineages found in the book are presented in a generation by generation format, making it easy to follow the growth and spread of individual family lines across America through the years. Other names in the book include marriages into and with other family lineages from that era, linking disparate families forever in time, all indexed. Many Riggin family descendants currently living in America will be able to use the book, and its upcoming sequel, Volume 2 Darby Riggin of Accomack County, Virginia and Other Unlinked Riggin Lines, to trace their lineage back to Teague or Darby Riggin, who first showed up in colonial America in the mid 1600's. Historians will be fascinated by the maps, court records, property transactions, parish births, deaths and marriages, census records, etc. that are included or referenced in this volume. In addition to the family line interest, the book provides a wealth of data that can be combined with separate scientific DNA research efforts - for personal edification as well as to help genealogists and geneticists definitively track the morphology of specific DNA haplogroups through multiple generations, up to 13 now evident from the time of Teague and Darby. Although not within the scope of this book, DNA test linkages to Ireland, Scotland, England, The Netherlands, France and other countries by Riggin descendants who can reference definitive documentary lineage using this book, offer tantalizing DNA hints to our collective past and potential origins, before Teague and Darby arrived in the Americas. An indispensable resource for genealogists and historians, all royalties from the sale of this book have been donated to the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture at Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland.
