Building your genealogy library for the first time? These are four books you must have in it.
Category - Books
Forensic Genealogy
If you really want to dig deep into your genealogy research and discover new things in documents and photos you’ve seen a million times, Forensic Genealogy by Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. is the...
Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org: How to Find Your Family History on the Largest Free Genealogy Website
Discover your ancestry on FamilySearch.org, the world’s largest free genealogy website. This in-depth user guide shows you how to find your family in the site’s databases of more than 3.5...
They Came in Ships: Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor’s Arrival Record
Here's an awesome comprehensive guide to U.S. passenger arrival records, colonial times to mid-twentieth century, with step-by-step instructions on how to find the passenger list of your immigrant...
Family Tree Magazine
I treated myself to this magazine to see if it could help a seasoned genealogist like me to find new articles or evidence to help locate records for my research. It’s ok, but I already know...
How to Do Everything: Genealogy
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: Discover your genealogy using the latest methods Thoroughly revised to cover new tools, techniques, and data, How to Do Everything: Genealogy, Fourth...
Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation Break through brick walls in your genealogical research Learn how to use innovative methods to unearth hard-to-find ancestors. Advanced Genealogy Research...
The History of Virginia, in Four Parts
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: This book was written by Mr. Robert Beverly, a native and lifelong inhabitant of Virginia. It is written in four parts. The first part covers the history of...
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. This book is offered free through Kindle wireless delivery...
Cemetery Research on the Internet (A Genealogy Guide)
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: There’s little a genealogist loves more than tramping through an old cemetery. That’s because we have an insatiable desire to learn more about our...
In Search of Your British & Irish Roots
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: Whether you conduct your research in person or by mail, this celebrated manual–now in its Fourth Edition–will guide you in finding your ancestors in...
Finding Your Hispanic Roots
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: Finding Your Hispanic Roots is quite possibly the most useful manual on Hispanic ancestry ever published. Building on the previously published Tracing Your...
The Genealogist’s U.S. History Pocket Reference: Quick Facts & Timelines of American History to Help Understand Your Ancestors
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: Here’s another great book to help you unlock new records in your family history research by understanding the historic events of your ancestors’ eras...
Genealogy: Family Tree Research Made Easy
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: Genealogy: Family Tree Research Made Easy is a wonderfully comprehensive book on researching your family tree. Poppy Sure is a genealogy expert who has put...
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
Genealogy Book Club Recommendation: Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA is Richard Hill’s true and intensely personal story of how he pieced together the long-kept...
The Family Tree Guidebook to Europe: Your Essential Guide to Trace Your Genealogy in Europe
Each week I like to share an invaluable resource that has helped me in my genealogy endeavors. The Family Tree Guidebook to Europe will help you chart your research course to find your European...
Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian
This excellent book explains how to properly cite the evidence you usually find in your genealogical research. Every devoted genealogist is concerned with citations in their analysis for their...
Family Photo Detective: Learn How to Find Genealogy Clues in Old Photos and Solve Family Photo Mysteries
Here’s another great book that has taught me about how to identify old photographs, use them to trace my ancestry, and solve long-standing genealogical mysteries through them. Historical family...
Genealogy Online
Here’s a wonderful book from Elizabeth Crowe that I found very helpful in my genealogy research. I currently have an older edition and I’m looking forward to purchasing the up-to...
Sicilian Genealogy and Heraldry
Sicilian Genealogy and Heraldry is a new book by one of Sicily’s foremost historians, Louis Mendola. He’s been consulted by the Vatican, the BBC, the New York Times, The History Channel...
The Purposeful Family Historian: A Guide for Researchers
Family history is more than just a quest for filling out the family tree. It is an experience which is founded on purpose. What drives us to dabble in family history research? Is it because we love...
How to Archive Family Keepsakes: Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia and Genealogy Records
Here’s another awesome little book that has helped me organize my family photos, heirlooms, and genealogy records. I hope you find it useful as I have. In every family someone ends up with...
Genealogy: Your Family History, Doing It Right The First Time
Finding out about your family’s history can be an exciting endeavor. Keeping track of all the information and placing it all into some kind of organized fashion however, can be quite a task. There...
Becoming an Accredited Genealogist
Do you need help in completing all of your personal family history research? Are you curious about how a professional genealogical researcher makes a living? Do you want to understand the...
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first...
The Family Tree Problem Solver: Tried-and-True Tactics for Tracing Elusive Ancestors
Proven Solutions for Your Research Challenges Has your family history research hit a brick wall? Marsha Hoffman Rising’s best-selling book The Family Tree Problem Solver has the solutions to...
Explore Your German Ancestry
The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe I recently purchased this book on Kindle to help me locate my missing German ancestors. I’ve found a wealth...
Stories Of Ohio (The Ohioans of the Ice Age)
The first Ohio stories are part of the common story of the wonderful Ice Age, when a frozen deluge pushed down from the north, and covered a vast part of the earth’s surface with slowly moving...
Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures
Finally–the only guidebook devoted exclusively to research in America’s courthouses. Full of essentials starting with preparation, interacting with the clerks, using the indexes, and what...
Edward Rutherfurd on New York
Strangely, I suspect it was Viking ancestors who drew me to New York. For centuries my father’s family lived on Britain’s biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade...