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My Genealogy Library

Description: List of books related to genealogy in my possession.

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1

Elements of Genealogical Analysis

by Robert Charles Anderson

276 members

3.8

6 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

2

Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735-1815

by William Dollarhide

417 members

1 review

4

6 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, Debra_YonkerHecht, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

3

Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures

by Christine Rose

717 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

6 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

4

Mastering Genealogical Proof

by Thomas W. Jones

814 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

6 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg, ckpatton58

5

Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian

by Elizabeth Shown Mills

1,455 members

8 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

6

Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a Solid Case

by Christine Rose

771 members

1 review

½ 4.3

6 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

7

Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians

by Elizabeth Shown Mills

1,148 members

1 review

½ 4.7

5 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg, ckpatton58

8

Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace

by Elizabeth Shown Mills

1,746 members

17 reviews

4.8

5 Members: AllWaysLearning, kcstarr, proflois, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

9

The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual

by Helen F.M. Leary

1,214 members

7 reviews

½ 4.4

5 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

10

Reading Early American Handwriting

511 members

3 reviews

½ 4.6

5 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, Debra_YonkerHecht, madeliney, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

11

Military Bounty Land, 1776-1855

by Christine Rose

256 members

½ 4.5

5 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

12

Numbering Your Genealogy: Basic Systems, Complex Families, and International Kin (Special Publications of the National Genealogical Society)

by Joan F. Curran

416 members

½ 4.3

5 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston, Armchair-Blitzkrieg, ckpatton58

13

Turn Your iPad into a Genealogy Powerhouse

by Lisa Louise Cooke

84 members

½ 3.7

4 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, Debra_YonkerHecht, rob_boston

14

Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com: How to Find Your Family History on the No. 1 Genealogy Website

by Nancy Hendrickson

301 members

2 reviews

3.9

4 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston, madeliney

15

The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy

by Loretto Dennis Szucs

1,142 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

4 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

16

The Family Tree Problem Solver: Tried-and-True Tactics for Tracing Elusive Ancestors

by Marsha Hoffman Rising

777 members

6 reviews

4.2

4 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke

17

Social Networking for Genealogists

237 members

6 reviews

3.9

4 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston, BrendaLeyndyke

18

Genealogy and the Law : A Guide to Legal Sources for the Family Historian

by Kay Haviland Freilich

264 members

2 reviews

3.8

3 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney

19

A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors: Special Strategies for Uncovering Hard-to-Find Information About Your Female Lineage

by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack

388 members

1 review

3.9

4 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

20

They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record

by John Philip Colletta

791 members

8 reviews

4

4 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke

21

Red Book : American State, County & Town Sources

by Alice Eichholz

892 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

22

You Can Write Your Family History

by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack

334 members

1 review

4

3 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, rob_boston

23

A Guide to the Draper Manuscripts

by Josephine L. Harper

80 members

2

3 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney

24

Ancestral Trails: Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History

by Mark D. Herber

599 members

½ 4.4

3 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, BrendaLeyndyke

25

They Came To America: Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors

by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak

28 members

4

3 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney

26

Family Photo Detective: Learn How to Find Genealogy Clues in Old Photos and Solve Family Photo Mysteries

by Maureen A. Taylor

285 members

1 review

½ 4.5

3 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, madeliney

27

The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy

by Val D. Greenwood

1,420 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois, BrendaLeyndyke

28

The Scotch-Irish : A Social History

by James Graham Leyburn

570 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: proflois, madeliney

29

Digging Deeper: Using Essential Pre-1850 Records

by Karen A. Clifford

31 members

2 Members: proflois, BrendaLeyndyke

30

The Great Wagon Road

231 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

31

How to Archive Family Keepsakes : Learn How to Preserve Family Photos, Memorabilia & Genealogy Records

by Denise May Levenick

228 members

1 review

4.1

2 Members: proflois, rob_boston

32

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

by David Hackett Fischer

2,201 members

36 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

33

Mastering Family, Library & Church Records (Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy)

by Daniel Quillen W.

23 members

2 Members: proflois, madeliney

34

Forensic Genealogy

by Colleen Fitzpatrick

387 members

4.1

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

35

Sustainable Genealogy: Separating Fact from Fiction in Family Legends

by Richard Hite

64 members

1 review

3

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

36

North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History

by Helen F. Leary

295 members

1 review

½ 4.5

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

37

North Carolina Genealogical Research

by George K. Schweitzer

106 members

1 review

½ 3.7

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

38

The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy

by Christina Kassabian Schaefer

254 members

½ 2.4

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

39

Trace Your Roots with DNA: Use Your DNA to Complete Your Family Tree

by Megan Smolenyak

443 members

6 reviews

4.1

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

40

Virginia Genealogy: Sources & Resources

by Carol McGinnis

93 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: AllWaysLearning, proflois

41

Start & Run a Personal History Business: Get Paid to Research Family Ancestry and Write Memoirs (Start & Run Business Series)

by Jennifer Campbell

72 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: proflois

42

The Official Guide to Ancestry.com

by George G. Morgan

239 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: proflois, rob_boston,kcstarr

43

How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy

by George G. Morgan

585 members

4 reviews

4

Member: proflois

44

Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants

by Joanna Brooks

23 members

3

Member: proflois

45

Western North Carolina: A History from 1730 to 1913

by John Preston Arthur

37 members

4

Member: proflois

46

Ashe County's Civil War: Community and Society in the Appalachian South

by Martin Crawford

17 members

3

Member: proflois

47

The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War

by John C. Inscoe

72 members

4

Member: proflois

48

Bushwhackers: The Civil War in North Carolina: The Mountains

by William R. Trotter

125 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: proflois

49

A little parliament : the Virginia General Assembly in the seventeenth century

by Warren M. Billings

18 members

5

Member: proflois

50

History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of West Virginia

by Wills. [from old catalog] De Hass

69 members

1 review

5

Member: proflois

51

The Coal River Valley in the Civil War:: West Virginia Mountains, 1861 (Civil War Series)

by Michael B. Graham

8 members

Member: proflois

52

Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement

by David Hackett Fischer

198 members

1 review

4

Member: proflois

53

A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory

by David E. Johnston

21 members

Member: proflois

54

Anne Orthwood's Bastard

by John Ruston Pagan

84 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: proflois

55

Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia

by Terri L. Snyder

22 members

1 review

4

Member: proflois

56

Public Executions in Richmond, Virginia: A History, 1782-1907

by Harry M. Ward

9 members

Member: proflois

57

Matewan before the Massacre: Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community

by Rebecca J. Bailey

29 members

½ 2.5

Member: proflois

58

The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America

by Jeff Biggers

112 members

2 reviews

4

Member: proflois

59

When Miners March

by William C. Blizzard

76 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: proflois

60

Autobiography of Mother Jones

254 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: proflois

61

Mother Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter

by Mother Jones

31 members

Member: proflois

62

Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

by Elliott J. Gorn

186 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: proflois

63

Robert C. Byrd; Child of the Appalachian Coalfields

by Robert C. Byrd

26 members

Member: proflois

64

King Coal : A Pictorial Heritage of West Virginia Coal Mining

40 members

Member: proflois

65

Coal: A Human History

by Barbara Freese

764 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: proflois

66

The Great Schism: The Dividing of Virginia during the American Civil War

by John A. Cowgill

3 members

Member: proflois

67

Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal

by Peter A. Galuszka

29 members

2 reviews

2.8

Member: proflois

68

The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom

by James R. Green

111 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: proflois

69

The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story

231 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: proflois

70

Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900

by Altina L. Waller

107 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: proflois

71

Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History

by Davitt McAteer

25 members

1 review

2

Member: proflois

72

Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars

by David Alan Corbin

63 members

4

Member: proflois

73

West Virginia: A History

by Otis K. Rice

42 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Member: proflois

74

Timesaving aid to Virginia-West Virginia ancestors: A quick-and-easy guide to birth, marriage, and death information in publications concerning county ... of residents of Virginia and West Virginia

by Patrick G. Wardell

16 members

1 review

5

Member: proflois

75

History of the Battle of Point Pleasant (West Virginia) Fought Between White Men & Indians at the Mouth of the Great Kanawha River (Now Point Pleasant, ... The Chief Event of the Lord Dunmores War)

by Virgil A. Lewis

17 members

Member: proflois

76

A History of Monroe County, West Virginia

by Oren Frederic Morton

20 members

3

Member: proflois

77

Don't Buy Another Vote, I Won't Pay for a Landslide: The Sordid And Continuing History of Political Corruption in West Virginia

by Allen H. Loughry

11 members

1 review

3

Member: proflois

78

History Of The Great Kanawha Valley [West Virginia] With Family History And Biographical Sketches. A Statement Of Its Natural Resources, Industrial Growth And Commercial Advantages

by Fuller & Co Brant

7 members

Member: proflois

79

The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising

by Robert Shogan

157 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: proflois

80

West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free (Civil War Series)

by Mark A. Snell

31 members

Member: proflois

81

The Soldiery of West Virginia in the French and Indian War; Lord Dunmore's War; the Revolution; the Later Indian Wars; the Whiskey Insurrection; the Second War with England; the War with Mexico. And Addenda Relating to West Virginians in the Civil War.

by Virgil Anson Lewis

25 members

1 review

Member: proflois

82

A Woman of Courage on the West Virginia Frontier: Phebe Tucker Cunningham

by Robert Thompson

10 members

1 review

4

Member: proflois

83

Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960

by Crandall A. Shifflett

16 members

1 review

4

Member: proflois

84

Coal Towns Of West Virginia: A Pictorial Recollection, Fayette, Raleigh, Wyoming, Boone, Logan, Mercer

by Mary Legg Stevenson

13 members

Member: proflois

85

In Search of Your British & Irish Roots A Complete Guide to Tracing Your

by Angus Baxter

273 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: proflois

86

Until He Is Dead: Capital Punishment in Western North Carolina History

by James Thomas Rusher

5 members

½ 4.5

Member: proflois

87

Lift Up Your Head, Tom Dooley: The True Story of the Appalachian Murder That Inspired One of America's Most Popular Ballads

by John Foster West

9 members

1 review

3

Member: proflois

88

History of Fayette County, West Virginia

5 members

Member: proflois

89

Kith and Kin of Boone County, West Virginia Volume VII

by Sigfus Olafson

1 member

Member: proflois

90

West Virginia Genealogy: Sources and Resources

by Carol McGinnis

37 members

4

Member: proflois

91

Mecklenburg County, Virginia deeds

2 members

Member: proflois

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