• Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Evidence Explained has two principal uses: it provides citation models for most historical sources—especially original materials not covered by classic citation guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style. Beyond that it can help us understand each type of record and identify each in such detail that we and our readers will know not only where to go to find our source, but, equally important, the nature of that source so that the evidence can be better interpreted and the accuracy of our conclusions properly appraised. -

• Genealogical Evidence : A Guide to the Standard of Proof Relating to Pedigrees, Ancestry, Heirship and Family History - (Book - Amazon.com) : This book is a classic in genealogical literature. Filled with abundant legal citations and case histories, the text provides a wealth of valuable information concerning genealogical matters, including legitimacy, illegitimacy, marriage, birth, death, age, and identity. Also included are suggestions regarding locating critical facts and examples of those types of evidence necessary to prove or disprove matters which concern pedigree, heirship, inheritance, and will contests.
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• How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : Anyone interested in discovering their family genealogy should carry a copy of this book everywhere. Written by internationally recognized expert, George G. Morgan, this book is an irreplaceable resource for beginner to expert knowledge gatherers. Not only does Morgan explain how to get the search started – creating a family tree, locating and evaluating documents, selecting the appropriate hardware and software for the search – he goes steps further and dedicates an entire section to research methods and strategies where he discusses, among other topics, getting past “dead ends,” and organizing possible research travel. With an entire chapter dedicated to expanding research horizons, and appendices covering up-to-date print and online resources, this is truly a comprehensive treatment of the tools necessary to conduct a successful genealogical search. This book is also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada). Click on links for details.

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• Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs - (Book - Amazon.com) : In this visually stunning book of historic family photographs, renown family-history photography expert Maureen A. Taylor shows genealogists, scrapbookers, and history enthusiasts how to cherish old photographs and what clues they provide on ancestors' lives.
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• Who Do You Think You Are? - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Published against a big multimedia TV event in the UK, this book is a jargon-free idiot's guide to tracing your family history. Light in tone, sometimes funny, often moving, and aimed at absolutely everyone, the book combines both stats and pub facts, with very real emotions as people discover the heroes and villains in their family's past. Rather than a dry 'how to' guide though, this book is inclusive, non-patronising and lively, and emphasises the human and emotional side to this popular pastime.
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• A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors - (Book - Amazon.com) : Special Strategies for Uncovering Hard-To-Find Information About Your Female Lineage.
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• Beyond B M and D: A Guide to Collecting and Publishing Family History - (Book - Amazon.com) : Family history should start, not end with the statistics, the b (born), m (married) and d (died). In addition to dates the genealogist should seek to record the dtails and stories that make each person unique. this handy guidebook helps the family historian glean the information he seeks from records and others in the family to bring the family history up to date. There is also a section of technical hints for preparing the manuscript for printing. -

• Family Archaeology : Discovering The Family Skeleton And Making It Dance - (Book - Amazon.com) : This book suggests ways to discover hidden treasure from the past and challenges you to unearth more about the people in your ancestral tree. It encourages you to rediscover family values, traditions, and stories and then presents ways to experience that heritage. Packed with practical suggestions, anyone new to the pursuit of genealogy will treasure this book fot its helpful questions and suggestions. Seasoned genealogists will also find a wealth of ideas and recognize a kindred spirit in the personal experiences and anecdotes that enliven this delightful guidebook. This readable book discusses searching for relative information and how to begin, learning about nationality and other ethnic ties, discovering the importance of your name, taking note of religious preferences, finding out about citizenship and what it means, tracking down military experiences, identifying causes that matter to you and your family, rediscovering ethnic traditions that have shaped your family, and much, much more… -

• Genealogy Fundamentals - (Book - Amazon.com) : Genealogy Fundamentals is designed for both the beginning and the experienced genealogist, and is also a recommended reference for genealogy libraries and classroom use. The 305 illustrations show record content, sample letters, and a note keeping system with 3" x 5" cards. The twelve lessons at the close of the book are designed for home study or group study, and guide the novice step-by-step. Included are chapters on terminology, research tools, record repositories, basic genealogy records, and family history. Emphasis is given on the use of the LDS Family History Library, family history centers, and local libraries. Nine chapters are devoted to research techniques for using the unique Family History Library computerized databases. There are addresses for vital record offices for ninety-six states and countries, and a list of gazetteers for seventy-two countries, with the appropriate research jurisdictions.
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• How to Tape Instant Oral Biographies - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• My Ancestor Was a Merchant Seaman: How Can I Find Out More About Him? - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : An overview and survey of the range of sources for tracing merchant seaman ancestors giving details of where to find them, to whom they apply and providing some examples of their contents. The book includes contact details and details of the holdings of relevant record repositories in the UK and overseas. The book is aimed at local & family history researchers and academics. -

• Organizing Your Family History Search - (Book - Amazon.com) : As experienced genealogists everywhere will testify, few hobbies generate more paperwork than genealogy. Sharon DeBartolo Carmack successfully tackles the arduous process of organizing family research, from filing piles of paper to streamlining the process as a whole. She reveals how to create a flexible filing system that can expand with new data; how to take notes according to this filing system; how to set up an efficient work space, and how to store photos, CD-ROMs,...
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• Preserving Your Family Photographs : How to Organize, Present, and Restore Your Precious Family Images -

  (Book - Amazon.com) : Genealogists and non-genealogists alike love old photographs and many people have photo collections of their ancestors. Preserving Your Family Photographs shows them how to organize and store these photos so that future generations can also enjoy them. Readers will learn how to care for family photos, identify different types of damage, learn basic conservation techniques, buy the proper storage materials, then organize the family photo archive and safely display it for all to see. Also available from Amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom) and Amazon.ca (Canada)

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• QuickSheet: Citing Online Historical Resources Evidence! Style - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Elizabeth Mills's QuickSheet provides a template for citing historical sources on the Internet. It also lays down rules to help you judge the reliability of these sources. Published in the form of a laminated folder, the QuickSheet contains a series of sample citations showing the correct way to identify online sources such as databases, census images, and digital books and articles. -

• The Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Family Tree (UK) - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : This lively and appealing book makes genealogy easy, exciting, sociable, inspiring and accessible to everyone. This fantastically useful guide refreshingly side-steps the uninspiring tasks of traditional genealogical research. Beginning with mapping the immediate family in clear, easy steps, it opens up the subject to every reader. Packed with useful information and a common-sense approach, it advises on everything from websites to war records, how to organise research and the joy of knitting it all together.
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• Touching Tomorrow - (Book - Amazon.com) : How to Interview Your Loved Ones to Capture a Lifetime of Memories on Video or Audio. Showcasing over 200 questions that are sure to help you know your loved ones better than you ever dreamed, Touching Tomorrow contains everything you need to record your family's most valuable asset: their wisdom, humor, and love. -

• 500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems - (Book - Amazon.com) : This collection of 500 brickwall solutions shows how genealogists and family historians have found ways around their research problems, using the latest technology or tried and true research techniques, combined with logic and perseverance, to overcome their genealogy brickwalls.
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• Dates and Time: A Handbook for Historians - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : This practical volume explains clearly and simply how people in the past measured time, what dating systems they used, and how documents and other sources may be dated. A wide-ranging, comprehensive and fascinating book published by the British Association for Local History.
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• Everton's Genealogical Helper - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Search over 10,000 pages representing over 200 issues from 1947 to the present. Everton's Genealogical Helper is the one magazine in the genealogical industry that emphasizes content, continuing education, and research resources, for both professional genealogists and amateur family history researchers. The Genealogical Helper magazine is content-heavy and has been the industry bible for over 50 years. -

• Everything Family Tree Book: Research and Preserve Your Family History - (Book - Amazon.com) : Completely updated for today's search tactics and blockades, The Everything Family Tree Book has even more insight for the stumped! Whether you're searching in a grandparent's attic or through the most cryptic archiving systems, this book has brand-new chapters on what readers have been asking for: Genetics, DNA, and medical information Surname origins and naming Appendix on major genealogical repositories, libraries, and archives Systems for filing and organizing The latest computer software Land, probate, and estate records Chock-full of tips the competitors don't have, this is the one-stop resource for successful sleuthing!
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• Evidence! : Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian - (Book - Amazon.com) : Learn how to document your family tree in such a fashion that even the most accomplished scientist or historian would be unable to refute your work! Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills is the ultimate source book for genealogical standards of citation and analysis!
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• Family Trees: A Manual For Their Design, Layout & Display - (Book - Amazon.com) : Family Trees provide the first detailed guide to the alternative ways to lay out and draw up a genealogical chart, following on the production of a finished document for display on the wall or in a book, with copious illustrations that takes the reader through the process in easy stages.
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• Genealogical Dates: A User-Friendly Guide - (Book - Amazon.com) : Was your ancestor born on Elftausend Jungfrauentag, but you haven't the faintest idea when that was? Puzzled by the changeover from Julian to Gregorian calendars? Mystified by a Napoleonic-era reference to the month of Nivôse? Help is at hand! This easy-to-use book explains in straightforward fashion the Julian and Gregorian calendars; the double dating system of years; the Church calendars [including a 95 page list with some 7,000 entries of Saint's days, Feast days, and the like]; the Roman calendar, the French Republican calendar, and the Quaker calendar; and perpetual calendars 1400-1999!
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• Genealogists Question and Answer Book: Solutions and Advice for Maximizing Your Research Results - (Book - Amazon.com) : The Genealogist's Question & Answer Book provides beginning and experienced researchers with clear, concise answers to more than 260 commonly-asked questions regarding genealogical records and genealogy research. This book is also available from Amazon.ca and Amazon.co.uk. Click on links for details. -

• Genealogy: How To Find Your Ancestors, Revised Edition - (Book - Amazon.com) : Based upon years and classroom experiences, this how-to book will guide you from your first interview of relatives, through cemeteries, churches and your local library and courthouse through the National archives, as well as the archives of the states. A new chapter about the uses of the Internet in research and in locating other sources has been added, and internet suggestions are woven throughout the text by Mrs. Driskill.
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• How Much Is That Worth? - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Answers the commonest question in local history. What was money worth in times past? A revised edition of one of the most popular publications of the British Association for Local History.
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• Teach Yourself Tracing Your Family History - (Book - Amazon.com) : Teach Yourself Tracing Your Family History guides readers through the process of researching and recording their family backgrounds. It includes tips on planning the necessary research, interviewing relatives effectively, and drawing up a family tree. The author also provides suggestions on where to find and how to use the different sources available to anyone, such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, censuses, and wills. This new edition also gives advice on how to use the Internet to its full potential. -

• The Bare-Bones Guide to Genealogy - (Book - Amazon.com) : Researching and Recording Your Family History.
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• The Family Tree Problem Solver: Proven Methods for Scaling the Inevitable Brick Wall - (Book - Amazon.com) : Complications arising from incomplete or missing records, census irregularities and individuals of the same name occur more often than non-genealogists might think. The author, a respected genealogist, helps intermediate to advanced researchers break through these "brick walls" by breaking down each researcher's common problem into a chapter with straightforward solutions.
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