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

by Elizabeth Shown Mills

1,115 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Global Rank 7

4 Members: proflois, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg, ckpatton58

2

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

by Kay Haviland Freilich

240 members

2 reviews

3.2

Global Rank 18

2 Members: proflois, madeliney

3

Elements of Genealogical Analysis

by Robert Charles Anderson

256 members

½ 3.4

Global Rank 1

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

4

The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual

by Helen F.M. Leary

1,101 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Global Rank 9

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

5

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

by Jennifer Campbell

69 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Global Rank 32

Member: proflois

6

You Can Write Your Family History

by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack

321 members

1 review

4.1

Global Rank 22

2 Members: proflois, rob_boston

7

The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy

by Loretto Dennis Szucs

1,082 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Global Rank 15

3 Members: proflois, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

8

Map Guide to American Migration Routes, 1735-1815

by William Dollarhide

384 members

4

Global Rank 2

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

9

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

by Nancy Hendrickson

277 members

1 review

4.1

Global Rank 14

3 Members: proflois, rob_boston, madeliney

10

Mastering Genealogical Proof

by Thomas W. Jones

741 members

2 reviews

½ 4.7

Global Rank 4

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

11

Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian

by Elizabeth Shown Mills

1,410 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Global Rank 5

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

12

Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace

by Elizabeth Shown Mills

1,597 members

17 reviews

4.8

Global Rank 8

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

13

How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy

by George G. Morgan

555 members

3 reviews

4

Global Rank 34

Member: proflois

14

The Official Guide to Ancestry.com

by George G. Morgan

236 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 33

2 Members: proflois, rob_boston,kcstarr

15

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

by Joanna Brooks

23 members

3

Global Rank 35

Member: proflois

16

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

by Marsha Hoffman Rising

723 members

6 reviews

4.2

Global Rank 16

3 Members: proflois, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke

17

Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures

by Christine Rose

688 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Global Rank 3

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

18

Military Bounty Land 1776-1855

by Christine Rose

233 members

½ 4.3

Global Rank 11

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

19

Reading Early American Handwriting

479 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Global Rank 10

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

20

Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a Solid Case

by Christine Rose

735 members

1 review

4.1

Global Rank 6

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

21

The Great Wagon Road

204 members

3 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 36

Member: proflois

22

Social Networking for Genealogists

237 members

6 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 17

3 Members: proflois, rob_boston, BrendaLeyndyke

23

Turn Your iPad into a Genealogy Powerhouse

by Lisa Louise Cooke

81 members

½ 3.7

Global Rank 13

3 Members: proflois, Debra_YonkerHecht, rob_boston

24

Western North Carolina: A History from 1730 to 1913

by John Preston Arthur

35 members

½ 3.5

Global Rank 37

Member: proflois

25

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

by Martin Crawford

16 members

3

Global Rank 38

Member: proflois

26

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

by John C. Inscoe

57 members

4

Global Rank 39

Member: proflois

27

Bushwhackers (Civil War in North Carolina)

by William R. Trotter

106 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Global Rank 40

Member: proflois

28

Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century

by Warren M. Billings

12 members

5

Global Rank 41

Member: proflois

29

History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of West Virginia

by Wills. [from old catalog] De Hass

58 members

2 reviews

5

Global Rank 42

Member: proflois

30

The Coal River Valley in the Civil War : West Virginia mountains, 1861

by Michael B. Graham

7 members

Global Rank 43

Member: proflois

31

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

by David Hackett Fischer

1,967 members

35 reviews

½ 4.5

Global Rank 44

Member: proflois

32

Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement

by David Hackett Fischer

189 members

1 review

4

Global Rank 45

Member: proflois

33

A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory

by David E. Johnston

19 members

Global Rank 46

Member: proflois

34

Digging Deeper: Using Essential Pre-1850 Records

by Karen A. Clifford

29 members

Global Rank 24

2 Members: proflois, BrendaLeyndyke

35

The Scotch-Irish : A Social History

by James Graham Leyburn

505 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 23

2 Members: proflois, madeliney

36

Anne Orthwood's Bastard

by John Ruston Pagan

75 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 47

Member: proflois

37

Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia

by Terri L. Snyder

20 members

1 review

4

Global Rank 48

Member: proflois

38

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

by Harry M. Ward

8 members

Global Rank 49

Member: proflois

39

Matewan Before The Massacre: Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in A West Virginia Mining Community (West Virginia and Appalachia)

by Rebecca J. Bailey

23 members

½ 2.5

Global Rank 50

Member: proflois

40

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

by Jeff Biggers

98 members

2 reviews

4

Global Rank 51

Member: proflois

41

When Miners March

by William C. Blizzard

66 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Global Rank 52

Member: proflois

42

Autobiography of Mother Jones

by Mother Jones

231 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 53

Member: proflois

43

Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Speeches & Writings

by Mother Jones

27 members

Global Rank 54

Member: proflois

44

Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America

by Elliott J. Gorn

149 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Global Rank 55

Member: proflois

45

Robert C. Byrd; Child of the Appalachian Coalfields

by Robert C. Byrd

25 members

Global Rank 56

Member: proflois

46

King Coal : A Pictorial Heritage of West Virginia Coal Mining

36 members

Global Rank 57

Member: proflois

47

Coal: A Human History

by Barbara Freese

696 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Global Rank 58

Member: proflois

48

The great schism : the dividing of Virginia during the American Civil War

by John A. Cowgill

3 members

Global Rank 59

Member: proflois

49

Forensic Genealogy

by Colleen Fitzpatrick

370 members

3.8

Global Rank 60

Member: proflois

50

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

by Peter A. Galuszka

25 members

2 reviews

2.8

Global Rank 61

Member: proflois

51

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

by James R. Green

77 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Global Rank 62

Member: proflois

52

The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story

191 members

6 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 63

Member: proflois

53

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

by Altina L. Waller

96 members

2 reviews

3.8

Global Rank 64

Member: proflois

54

Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in US History (West Virginia and Appalachia)

by Davitt McAteer

22 members

1 review

2

Global Rank 65

Member: proflois

55

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

by David Alan Corbin

50 members

4

Global Rank 66

Member: proflois

56

West Virginia: A History

by Otis K. Rice

35 members

1 review

½ 2.5

Global Rank 67

Member: proflois

57

Timesaving aid to Virginia-West Virginia ancestors : a quick-and-easy guide to birth, marriage, and death information in publications concerning county history, churches, and the families of residents of Virginia and West Virginia

by Patrick G. Wardell

17 members

2 reviews

Global Rank 68

Member: proflois

58

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

16 members

Global Rank 69

Member: proflois

59

A History of Monroe County, West Virginia

by Oren Frederic Morton

15 members

3

Global Rank 70

Member: proflois

60

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

9 members

1 review

3

Global Rank 71

Member: proflois

61

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

Global Rank 72

Member: proflois

62

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

by Robert Shogan

127 members

3 reviews

3.1

Global Rank 73

Member: proflois

63

West Virginia and the Civil War: Mountaineers Are Always Free (The History Press Civil War Sesquicentennial Series)

by Mark A. Snell

25 members

1 review

Global Rank 74

Member: proflois

64

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

17 members

1 review

Global Rank 75

Member: proflois

65

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

by Robert Thompson

6 members

1 review

4

Global Rank 76

Member: proflois

66

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

by Crandall A. Shifflett

13 members

1 review

4

Global Rank 77

Member: proflois

67

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

by Mary Legg Stevenson

12 members

Global Rank 78

Member: proflois

68

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

by Denise May Levenick

217 members

1 review

4.1

Global Rank 25

2 Members: proflois, rob_boston

69

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

368 members

1 review

3.9

Global Rank 19

3 Members: proflois, madeliney, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

70

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

by John Philip Colletta

738 members

9 reviews

3.9

Global Rank 20

3 Members: proflois, madeliney, BrendaLeyndyke

71

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

by Joan F. Curran

393 members

½ 4.3

Global Rank 12

4 Members: proflois, rob_boston, Armchair-Blitzkrieg, ckpatton58

72

Ancestral Trails: Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History

by Mark D. Herber

544 members

1 review

½ 4.4

Global Rank 27

2 Members: proflois, BrendaLeyndyke

73

Sustainable Genealogy: Separating Fact from Fiction in Family Legends

by Richard Hite

56 members

1 review

3

Global Rank 79

Member: proflois

74

North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History

by Helen F. Leary

279 members

1 review

½ 4.7

Global Rank 80

Member: proflois

75

North Carolina Genealogical Research

by George K. Schweitzer

97 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Global Rank 81

Member: proflois

76

A Guide to the Draper Manuscripts

by Josephine L. Harper

72 members

2

Global Rank 26

2 Members: proflois, madeliney

77

Mastering Family, Library & Church Records 2nd Edition (Quillen's Essentials of Genealogy)

by Daniel Quillen W.

20 members

Global Rank 28

2 Members: proflois, madeliney

78

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

by Angus Baxter

255 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Global Rank 82

Member: proflois

79

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

by James Thomas Rusher

4 members

4

Global Rank 83

Member: proflois

80

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

10 members

1 review

3

Global Rank 84

Member: proflois

81

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

by Christina Kassabian Schaefer

234 members

½ 2.4

Global Rank 85

Member: proflois

82

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

by Megan Smolenyak

427 members

6 reviews

4.1

Global Rank 86

Member: proflois

83

They Came To America: Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors

by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak

29 members

4

Global Rank 29

2 Members: proflois, madeliney

84

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

by Maureen A. Taylor

260 members

1 review

4.1

Global Rank 30

2 Members: proflois, madeliney

85

History of Fayette County, West Virginia

5 members

Global Rank 87

Member: proflois

86

Kith and Kin of Boone County, West Virginia Volume VII

by Sigfus Olafson

1 member

Global Rank 88

Member: proflois

87

Red Book : American State, County & Town Sources

by Alice Eichholz

852 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 21

3 Members: proflois, BrendaLeyndyke, Armchair-Blitzkrieg

88

The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy

by Val D. Greenwood

1,338 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 31

2 Members: proflois, BrendaLeyndyke

89

Virginia Genealogy: Sources & Resources

by Carol McGinnis

84 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Global Rank 89

Member: proflois

90

West Virginia Genealogy: Sources and Resources

by Carol McGinnis

28 members

4

Global Rank 90

Member: proflois

91

Mecklenburg County, Virginia deeds, 1771-1776

by T.L.C. Genealogy

6 members

5

Global Rank 91

Member: proflois

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April 2015
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