USE GENEALOGY BOOKS!

For Getting Started
And Serious Research

Learn how to.....

• Start out
• Recognise Pitfalls
• Overcome Problems
• Organise your Records
• Research Specific Topics
• Make the most of your computer
• Use the Internet

You will see below a recommended selection of genealogy books for research in the US and UK:

For US research - best selling genealogy books from Amazon.com

Genealogy Books and the Internet

1. Finding Your Roots Online
2. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy~Rhonda McClure
3. Genealogy Online for Dummies~April Leigh Helm, Matthew L Helm
4. Online Roots: How to Discover Your Family's History and Heritage With the Power of the Internet~Pamela Boyer Porter
5. Genealogical Research on the Web~Diane Kovacs
6. The Genealogists Computer Companion~Rhonda R McClure
7. The Complete Beginner's Guide to Genealogy, the Internet and Your Genealogy Computer Program~Karen Clifford

Starter Help and Information

1. Unpuzzling Your Past: The Best-Selling Guide~Emily Anne Croom
2. To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come~Bob Greene, D G Fulford
3. Your Guide to Cemetery Research~Sharon Debartolo Carmack
4. Organizing Your Family History Search~Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
5. You Can Write Your Family History~Sharon Debarolo Carmack
6. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy~Christine Rose et al

Specific Research

1. Long-Distance Genealogy~Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
2. The Handybook for Genealogists : United States of America (10th Edition)
3. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy~Sandra H Luebking (Ed)
4. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources~Alice Eichholz (Editor), William Dollarhide
5. Evidence! : Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian~Elizabeth Shown Mills
6. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920~William Thorndale, William Dollarhide
7. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy~Val D Greenwood

For UK research - best selling genealogy books from Amazon.co.uk

Genealogy Books and the Internet

1. The Genealogist's Internet~Peter Christian
2. The Good Web Guide to Genealogy~Caroline Peacock

Help and Information

1. Ancestral Trails~Mark D Herber, John Titford
2. Family and Local History Handbook~Robert Blatchford
3. The Family Tree Detective~Colin D Rogers
4. Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office~Amanda Bevan

Public Record Office Publications

1. Getting Started in Family History~Public Records Office
2. Family History Starter Pack~Public Record Office
3. Using Birth, Marriage and Death Records~Public Records Office
4. Using Census Returns~Public Record Office