"This special issue ofPost-Medieval Archaeology, guest edited by Brent Fortenberry (Boston University) and Marley Brown III (The College of William and Mary), celebrates archaeology in Bermuda on the eve of the island's 400th anniversary. The volume presents the diverse nature of contemporary archaeological research on Bermuda, drawing together a wide array of scholars from the disciplines of archaeology, history, material culture studies, heritage and architectural history. The volume seeks to bring about a greater awareness of the island's archaeology and to explore its place within the historic and contemporary Atlantic world."

"[This work] will be useful to librarians, to genealogists, and to persons searching American Indian, Asian-American, black American, and Hispanic-American ancestries. . . . Family researchers or librarians will find this comprehensive, user-friendly work invaluable." Reference Books Bulletin

Russell Sidney White was born in 1928 in Attleboro, Massachusetts. His parents were Sidney Russell White (1901-1982) and Ina Adele Simmons (1898-1955). He married Edith Marion Nowers, daughter of Eardley Francis Nowers (1889-1963) and Marion Francis George (1889-1975), in 1950 in Sharon, Massachusetts. They had four children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Delaware, New York and Bermuda.