Genealogy Books

Wise Words for Every Family Historian:

U.S. Catholic Sources: A Diocesan Research Guide
Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical Records
How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results for Family History & Ancestry: Scientists Speak Out on Genealogy Joining Genetics
Art of Family: Genealogical Artifacts in New England
The Compendium of American Genealogy
Trace Your Roots with DNA: Using Genetic Tests to Explore Your Family Tree
Lost Links New Recordings of Old Data from Many States
Long-Distance Genealogy: Researching Your Family History from Home
500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems
How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy
The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research
Digitizing Your Family History
The Family Tree Problem Solver: Proven Methods for Scaling the Inevitable Brick Wall
The Organized Family Historian: How to File, Manage, and Protect Your Genealogical Research and Heirlooms
Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family's History and Heritage
Online Roots: How to Discover Your Family's History and Heritage With the Power of the Internet
Everything Family Tree: Finding, Charting & Preserving Your Family History
Probate Jurisdictions: Where to Look for Wills
Wills and Other Probate Records: a Practical Guide to Researching Your Ancestors' Last Documents
Genograms
American Migrations 1765-1799
Time Machine: Family Tree: video from A&E Television
The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 11 Volumes
(1913-1918)
Record Offices: How to Find Them
Your Family Reunion: How to Plan it, Organize it and Enjoy it

Names, Names, & More Names: Locating Your Dutch Ancestors in Colonial America
Your Guide to Cemetery Research
Absolutely Family! A Guide to Editing and Publishing a Family Newsletter
The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook: Essential Forms and Letters for All Genealogists (1st Edition)
Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians
Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas. A Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the Western Hemisphere
Index to the Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Quarterly: Issues of 1980-1990
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy...
Hidden Sources: Family History in Unlikely Places
Organizing Your Family History Search: Efficient & Effective Ways to Gather and Protect Your Genealogical Research
Who's Who in My Family?
Ancestral Records and Portraits: Colonial Dames of America
Becoming an Accredited Genealogist (Scratch and Dent)
Pitfalls in Genealogical Research

Special Research Interests & Ethnic Genealogical Resources:

Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway
Quaker Genealogy Books & Links
Mississippi & Ohio Rivers: History & Heritage Books
Kids' Genealogy Books Start 'em young and they'll be grateful to you one of these days!
Military History Books
Polish Genealogy Books & Links
Hispanic Genealogy Books & Links
Italian Genealogy Books & Links
Jewish Genealogy Books & Links
German Genealogy Books & Links
Huguenot Genealogy & Links
Native American Genealogy & Links

Be sure to see our Scrapbooking How-To & Idea Books!

Other Ethnic & Immigration Resources

NOTE: Many, many more location-specific books regarding ethnic groups and immigrants & immigrant groups may be found in the Regional Genealogy Books pages.

Immigration Records: Dutch in America, 1800s CD
American Naturalization Records, 1790-1990
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s CD
Russians to America, 1850-1896 Passenger and Immigration Lists CD
Your Swedish Roots
Norwegians, Swedes and More - Destination Dakota Territory - AMUNDSON - MAGNUS
Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York...
The Alsace Emigration Book
American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam
The Armenian Diaspora in Manchester, N. H.
Genealogical Maps Guide to the Norwegian Parish Registers
The Finns in North America
Czech Immigration Passenger Lists
Genealogical Research for Czech and Slovak Americans
To Reap a Bountiful Harvest: Czech Immigration Beyond the Mississippi, 1850-1900
Our People: Carpatho-Rusyns and Their Descendants in North America
Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies
Immigrant & Passenger Arrivals: a Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications
100 Yesterdays Jamaica 1882-1982
Guide to the Records of the Bahamas
East Prussians from Russia
More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
In Search of Your European Roots: a Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe
Armenian Immigrants: Boston 1891-1901, New York 1880-1897
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index: a Guide to Published Arrival Records of About 500, 000 Passengers Who Came to the United States and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries
Yugoslav Survey of California, Nevada, Arizona and the South 1800-1900: Covering Dalmatians From Croatia, Montenegrins-Slovenes, Hercegovians
International Vital Records Handbook
Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors
The Children's Friend Society. Juvenile Emigrants to Western Australia, South Africa and Canada 1834-1842
New World Immigrants: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature
The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, Localities Where They Formerly Lived...
The Danish Texans
The True Saga of Cleng PEERSON - Translated From the Norwegian for the Norwegian Society of Texas
A Narrative of the Rise & Progress of Emigration From the Counties of Lanark & Renfrew to New Settlements in Upper Canada...
A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661-1699
The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1700-1750
The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775
Ship Passenger Lists: the South (1538-1825)
Ship Passenger Lists: Pennsylvania and Delaware (1641-1825)
Grants Made to the French Immigrants in Alabama-1827
Boer Settlers in the Southwest
Lay Down Body: Living History in African American Cemeteries
American Passenger Arrival Records: A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Arriving at American Ports by Sail and Steam
List of Emigrants to America From Liverpool 1697-1707
Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei
Out of This Furnace
The Melungeons: Notes on the Origin of a Race
Ellis Island DVD from A&E Television
In Search of Your European Roots
The Alsace Emigration Book
The Swiss Emigration Book
Wuerttemberg Emigration Index (7 Volumes)