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Every year, Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company release 200 new books or classic reprints in the fields of genealogy and family history. Descriptions of all of those publications (plus all those of previous years) are here at GenealogyBookShop.com -- just use the keyword search or category search on our home page. Below, we've listed some of our most popular titles, including Netting Your Ancestors, by Cyndi Howells; Evidence!, by Elizabeth Shown Mills; the Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas, by Christina Schaefer; and The Genealogist's Address Book, by Elizabeth Petty Bentley. Each of these reference books has won the plaudits of experts in the genealogical community for its scholarly excellence and indispensability. We recommend these titles to all visitors to GenealogyBookShop.com.
Cyndi Howells 182 pp., Indexed. (1997), 1998. ISBN . Netting Your Ancestors is designed not only to show you how to use the Internet in genealogical research but how to take maximum advantage of this extraordinary research tool. Written by genealogist and computer whiz Cyndi Howells, creator of the award-winning web site Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet, it is a guide to the most powerful research tool since the advent of the personal computer. (The author's web site, Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet, is the most comprehensive list of Internet resources for genealogy available and has been acclaimed by Newsweek magazine, Home PC magazine, and the History Channel.)
Elizabeth Petty Bentley 842 pp., Indexed. (1995), 1998. ISBN .
Marthe Arends 269 pp., Indexed. 1998. ISBN . Along with a variety of other useful features, this guidebook comprises reviews of the major software programs, including commercial and shareware software as well as utilities. The author lists each program's major features; but rather than giving a mere litany of details, functions, and common characteristics, she tries to provide a sense of what the program actually feels like by including over eighty sample reports and screen shots of the major genealogy programs and software utilities. In this context it is important to note that only IBM compatible software is reviewed here; Macintosh and other platforms, however, are listed and briefly described.
Val D. Greenwood 623 pp., Indexed. Illus. (1990), 1996. ISBN 080631267X. The best book ever written on American genealogy, it is the text of
choice in colleges and
William Thorndale and William Dollarhide 445 pp., Illus. (1987), 1998. ISBN . This work shows all U.S. county boundaries from 1790 to 1920. On each
of the nearly 400 maps the old county lines are superimposed over the
modern ones to highlight the boundary changes at ten-year intervals.
The detail in this work is exhaustive and of such impeccable standards
that there is little wonder why this award-winning publication is the
number one tool in U.S. census research.
Laverne Galeener-Moore 155 pp., Illus. (1987), 1998. ISBN . This how-to book in the guise of a spoof is guaranteed to educate
you and keep you laughing.
Christina K. Schaefer 830 pp., Indexed. Illus. 1998. ISBN . In this work Mrs. Schaefer has undertaken a systematic examination of the records to show the researcher where to find the most important genealogical records of the period and how to access them, all within the framework of a single encyclopedic volume. Equally important, she has defined the various classes of records in each country, identified as many of them as is practicable in a book of this size, provided historical background and brief sketches of the records themselves, added a description of the principal holdings of the major repositories of each country, and has interwoven selected reading lists throughout.
Myra Vanderpool Gormley 64 pp., Indexed. (1995), 1998. ISBN .
William Dollarhide 48 pp., (1994), 1998. ISBN . The object of the work is to reduce the process of genealogical research to its most basic elements, enabling the raw beginner to be brought up to speed in no more time than it takes him to read a handful of pages. At the same time it is a one-stop resource book for the practicing genealogist, providing in one convenient place the names and addresses of essential record repositories.
Kip Sperry 289 pp., Illus. 1998. ISBN 080630846X. This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the
handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research.
It explains techniques for reading early American documents,
provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms
and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as
wills, deeds, and church records. Furthermore, it presents numerous
examples of early American records for the reader to work with.
James Savage 2,541 pp. total, (), 1998. ISBN . This is the basic genealogical dictionary of early New England settlers, giving the name of every settler who arrived in New England before 1692 regardless of his station, rank, or fortune. The settlers are alphabetically arranged, and for each we are given his dates of marriage and death, the dates of birth, marriage and death of his children, and the birth dates and names of his grandchildren.
Terry Coleman 317 pp., Illus. (1972), 1998. ISBN . This is the grim story of the British and Irish immigrants who came to America during the middle of the nineteenth century. Much the largest contingent was Irish, and it was above all the departure of the Irish to America, diseased, half-starved, bewildered, cheated and cheating, which made the emigrant way across the Atlantic as degrading as the convict route to the South Seas, and almost as cruel as the Middle Passage of the slave ships. "Terry Coleman tells this unpleasant story with wit and grace, and [it] is filled with artful, touching portraits of heroes and villains."--The New York Times.
Mark D. Herber. With a Foreword by John Titford 688 pp., Indexed. Illus. 1998. ISBN . Lavishly illustrated and breathtaking in coverage, Ancestral Trails guides the researcher through the substantial British archives, giving a detailed view of the records and the published sources available, analyzing each record and guiding the searcher to finding-aids and indexes. The book is ideal for the beginner and the experienced researcher alike and will enable those who are persistent enough to trace their ancestry back to the Middle Ages. One of the aims of the book--entirely unique to it--is to link sources together, to ensure that researchers can use material found in one source to assist a search in other sources.
Christina K. Schaefer 310 pp., Indexed. Illus. 1999. ISBN . While women may never be as easy to locate as their male counterparts, Christina Schaefer here pioneers an approach to the problem that just might set genealogy on its head! And her solution is simplicity itself: Look closely at those areas where the female ancestor interacts with the government and the legal system, she advises, where law, precedent, and even custom mandate the unequivocal identification of all parties, male and female. According to this thesis, the legal status of women at any point in time is the key to unraveling the identity of the female ancestor, and therefore this work highlights those laws, both federal and state, that indicate when a woman could own real estate in her own name, devise a will, enter into contracts, and so on.
Christina K. Schaefer 160 pp., Indexed. Illus. 1996. ISBN 080631515X. It is not generally recognized, but Washington, D.C. is home to the largest body of accessible research materials in the world, larger even than the vast body of materials at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It is the central repository of the nation's primary source records and the very center of genealogical activity. The aim of this book is to identify those resources in the Washington, D.C. area that will aid family historians in tracing their ancestors (the National Archives, Library of Congress, the DAR Library, the National Genealogical Society, and many more.)
Christina K. Schaefer 439 pp., 1997. ISBN . State by state, county by county, city by city, the Guide to Naturalization Records identifies all repositories of naturalization records, systematically indicating the types of records held, their dates of coverage, and the location of original and microfilm records. The Guide also pinpoints the whereabouts of federal court records in all National Archives facilities. But perhaps the most unique feature of the Guide to Naturalization Records is that it identifies every single piece of information on naturalizations that is available on microfilm through the National Archives or the Family History Library System.
Elizabeth Shown Mills 124 pp., Indexed. (1997), 1998. ISBN . Elizabeth Shown Mills' stunning new book, Evidence!, provides the family history researcher with a reliable standard for both the correct form of source citation and the sound analysis of evidence. In successful genealogical research, these two practices are inseparable, and the author's treatment of this little-understood concept is nothing short of brilliant.
Marian Hoffman, ed. Now published under the imprint of the Genealogical Publishing Company, Genealogical & Local History Books in Print, Family History Volume, is at last available in a 5th edition, the first new edition to be published in over ten years! This new Family History Volume contains over 4,600 listings of available family histories, both as individual works and compilations; it also includes listings of pedigrees, biographies, and family newsletters in print.
Marian Hoffman, ed. The General Reference and World Resources Volume of G&LHBIP lists genealogical books in print that fit into the categories of general reference or world resources, and the book is arranged under those two principal classifications. Therein, under headings ranging from adoption, Bible records, and bibliography to textbooks, vital records, and westward migration, the General Reference section lists thousands of genealogical books in print; while the World Resources section lists publications covering countries throughout the world, from Australia, Britain, and Germany to Italy, Switzerland, and the West Indies.
Marian Hoffman, ed. Devoted specifically to U.S. sources and resources--books that contain reference literature and source material of a localized nature--this is the first of two volumes listing genealogical books in print that deal with U.S. regions, states, counties, towns, and smaller municipalities. Consistent with the format of the other volumes in the opus, this work starts with coverage of the five major regions of the U.S.--New England, Mid-Atlantic, the South, the Mid-West, and the West--and proceeds alphabetically through the States of Alabama through New York.
Marian Hoffman, ed. The concluding volume of the two-part U.S. Sources and Resources component of G&LHBIP, this one picks up with the genealogical and local history sources and resources for the State of North Carolina and continues alphabetically through Wyoming.
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