Bell Roots: Our Early History, 825-1800

A historical and genealogical book that covers more than a millennium of time with many spellings of the Bell family along with a pattern of their European, English, Scottish and Irish migration movements to North America and the West Indies colonies. --- Compiled from the author s repository of computer notes and facts of over one hundred thousand pages covering over fourteen thousand Bells of many spellings. -- They are descendants of Flemish/Normans who became Nobles, Clan Chiefs, Members of Parliament, Members of Congress, Governors, Bishops, Clergymen, Great Merchants, Worshipful Merchants, and Indentured Servants. -- Bell's were active as powerful Speaker of The House of Commons, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer to the Queen, Virginia Company of London Charter Signers, Fierce Border Reivers, Explorers, Inventors, Colony Settlers, Plantation Owners, Headrights, Soldiers, Military Officers, American Patriots, Transported Undesirables, Slave Owners, and a Presidential Candidate. -- They were ancestors of the present day English Crown. --- This is an attractive and scholarly book whose authors have compiled a timeline of several Bell bloodlines, their many Coat of Arms and other family events from ca. 820 AD to ca. 1800. -- Today many family researchers can often trace their ancestors to ca. 1800, this book may help them to find earlier kinship. --- The unique style of compiling, sequencing, writing and cramming thousands of orderly facts is a first for established family archivists and researchers, yet is easy for beginners to follow. -- Hundreds of other books that list related Bell families after 1800 are referenced. -- The index of about 7000 other than Bell surnames, often related, may be of interest to non Bell researchers.