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American Settlements and Migrations: A Primer for Genealogists and Family Historians by Lloyd de Witt Bockstruck and compacts became keepsakes representingThis book provides a synopsis of the original patterns of settlement and migration for the United States. Mr. Bockstruck discusses each of the 50 states; however, his emphasis is on the states and territories that were established between the colonial period and the middle of the 19th century. For each state the author examines pioneers' places of origin, reasons for settlement, specific places of settlement in America, names of pioneering families,