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UNITED STATES GUIDES

 

 

 

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo, Your Guide to Cemetery Research (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2002). This is an enjoyable guide to records surrounding death and the cemetery. It has many photos and describes a variety of cultures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eichholz, Alice, Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources (3^rd ed. Orem, Utah: Ancestry.com, 2004). In this work, each state is treated separately with a list by county of when selected records start. While no book could comprehensively cover all 50 states, this work provides a foundation from which to launch more in-depth research.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greenwood, Val D., The Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy (3^rd ed. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000). Long a standard in the field, this book is an excellent source although it has been somewhat overshadowed by Ancestry.com’s The Source.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hatcher, Patricia Law, Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using       Land Records (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2003). This easy to       use book concentrates on the land records for federal land states and       state land states. It compliments Hone’s book very well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hansen, Holly, ed., The Handybook for Genealogists (11^th ed., Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, 2006). In some form or another this work has been in print for decades and was the original book used by most family historians up until the 1980s. It has sold over 1 million copies. It has maps of each state, maps of migration routes and a state by state basic guide to records and a county listing of records. An excellent beginning book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hone, E. Wade, Land & Property Research in the United States (Orem, Utah: Ancestry.com, 1997). This book concentrates on American land records with a special emphasis on the federal land states. It compliments Hatcher’s book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Szucs, Loretto Dennis, They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins (Orem, Utah: Ancestry.com, 1998). This is an excellent book to the records that surround the citizenship process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy (3^rd ed. Orem, Utah: Ancestry.com, 2005). This is the new revised edition of the classic encyclopedia of American genealogy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lalor, Brian, ed, The Encyclopedia of Ireland (Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003,. This is a truly complete encyclopedia for Irish history.  Beautifully illustrated and vastly complete for the Irish historian.

 

 

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Researching in the USA is a huge topic, we’ve chosen some of the best books available to present to you!