SOURCES:

(This list is placed here to show all the sources cited in the book "Our Ralston Families" and the book "Our Belden Families".
A few of these are cited in the web pages.)

(1) "Sinnissippi Saga", C. Hal Nelson, Rockford, Ill., 1968.
(2) "History of Winnebago County, Ill.", H. F. Kett, Chicago, 1877.
(3) "Portraitures and Biographies of Winnebago and Boone Counties, Illinois", Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1892.
(4) 1850 Illinois Census.
(5) "Rockton Herald", Rockton, Illinois.
(6) "Milwaukee Sentinel", Milwaukee, Wis.
(7) "The Family History of Judge Ellsworth B. Belden and Collateral Families", S. R. & E. K. Belden, Racine, Wis., 1980.
(8) "Rockford Register-Gazette", Rockford, Illinois
(9) "Beloit Daily News", Beloit, Wis.
(10) Book of Orders, County Courthouse, Racine, Wis.
(11) "Waterford Post", Waterford, Wis.
(12) 1860 Wisconsin Census.
(13) "The Racine-Register Business Directory", 1850
(14) "The Racine Directory", 1852
(15) "History of Columbia County, Wisconsin", Chicago, 1880.
(16) Rochester, Wisconsin, Tax Rolls, at Area Archives & Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Campus, Kenosha, Wis.
(17) 1900 Wisconsin Census.
(18) "Burlington Free Press", Burlington, Wisconsin.
(19) "History of the Descendants of John Whitman of Weymouth, Mass.", Charles H. Farnham, New Haven, 1889.
(20) 1850 Wisconsin Census.
(21) Yorkville, Wisconsin, Tax Rolls, at Area Archives & Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Campus, Kenosha, Wis.
(22) Declaration of Intention, at Area Archives & Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Campus, Kenosha, Wis.
(23) "Soldiers' and Citizens' Album of Biographical Record." Chicago, 1890. (Univ. of Wis., Parkside).
(24) "Family History and Home Record", kept by Evelyn E. B. Belden Ralston, 1985.
(25) "The Argyle Settlement In History and Story", Daniel G. Harvey, 1924, Reprint 1986, Whippoorwill, Evansville, Indiana.
(26) "Boone Co., Illinois Marriage Records 1838-1868", R. L. Steenrod, 1960.
(27) "Saga of Our Kintyre Kin", Grace Ralston & Florence Ralston Schnurr, privately published, 1984.
(28) "The Racine Journal News", Racine, Wisconsin.
(29) "Shepard Collection", Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.
(30) "Rehoboth Vital Records for 1842 - 1896", James N. Arnold, Providence, 1897.
(31) Veterans Administration file of Louis A. Belden.
(32) LDS microfilm of "Old Parochial Registers Argyll County" (OPR), New Register House, Edinburgh.
(33) "Standard Democrat", Burlington, Wis.
(34) "Free Press", Burlington, Wis.
(35) "The Picture Story of Roscoe", Dorothy Hunter, 1989
(36) Composition Book records kept by Hannah J McAffee Ralston, now in possession of Wallace G. Ralston, Caledonia, Illinois. (Note- Wallace died in 2010 and his family history collection was passed on to Robert W Ralston, son.)
(37) "Burlington Standard-Press", Burlington, Wisconsin
(38) "Racine: Growth and Change in a Wisconsin", ed. N. C. Burckel, 1977.
(39) "Pennsylvania Archives", Pennsylvania State Library, several series of several volumes.
(40) DAR Records, DAR Library, Washington, D.C.
(41) "Pennsylvania Vital Records", Volume I.
(42) "Whitman Family Record", A pocket size notebook, probably written by William Peck Goff.
(43) 1887 Racine County Atlas at Area Archives & Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Campus, Kenosha, Wis.
(44) Burlington, Wis. Tax Rolls at Area Archives & Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Campus, Kenosha, Wis.
(45) 1853 Map of Racine County at Area Archives & Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Parkside Campus, Kenosha, Wis.
(46) Vital Records, Racine County Courthouse, Racine, Wisconsin.
(47) "Biographical Record of Racine and Kenosha Counties, 1906" located at Racine County Historical Society Museum, archives.
(48) "Racine County Civil War Soldiers of Second Wisconsin Infantry Regiment and Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment" compiled by Gloria Wall Bicha, January 1991.
(49) "The Story of Roscoe", Florence Lovejoy Shugars, 1987.
(50) "History of Rockford and Winnebago County", Charles A. Church, Published by New England Society of Rockford, Illinois, 1900.
(51) "AA Illustrated Guide to Britain", London, 1978.
(52) "Kintyre Country Life", Angus Martin, Edinburgh, 1987.
(53) "Historic Kintyre", West Highland Series #7, Oban, Argyll, 1984.
(54) "A Belden Lineage, 1066-1976", Allan Belden, Washington, D.C., 1976.
(55) "Baildon and the Baildons, a History of a Yorkshire Manor and Family", W. Paley Baildon, 1926, Edinburgh.
(56) "The Harris Prairie, Indiana, McMichael's", by Carl V. Johnson, 1938, printed by Arthur L. Beardsley.
(57) Census, Duke of Argyll, "Inhabitants in Kintyre, 1792".
(58) 'Ontario Repository', Ontario County, New York, 22 September 1824. Information provided by Charles L. Woodward, Coldwater, Michigan.
(59) The descendants of James Carrell and Sarah Dungan, his wife Hatboro, Pa.: 1928, 732 pgs.; Page 203-4.
(60) Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass. (Per Joe Lavelle, Sept. 5, 2006)
(61) Burlington Standard, Oct. 23, 1873.
(62) Gazetteer of Berkshire Co., MA, 1725-1885, Pub. 1885. Pg 342; Twn. of Savoy.

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