Beginners and experienced researchers alike will learn tips to advance their research and avoid the most common pitfalls. Tips include recording women with their maiden names, using the FamilySearch Wiki, verifying “family lore,” searching by how a name sounds, using a research log, researching outside of your direct line, remembering that not everything is online, and keeping up to date with genealogical journals.

By Melanie McComb

Published by American Ancestors in January 2025

Learn about WWII draft registration cards, using the census to determine if your ancestor served; accessing Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Army files at the National Personnel Records Center; and using record collections at the National Archives and other repositories.

By Melanie McComb

Published by American Ancestors in January 2025

8 ½ x 11 laminated, 4 pages

Learn about WWI draft registration cards; using the census to determine if your ancestor served; accessing Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Army files at the National Personnel Records Center; and using record collections at the National Archives, the Library of Congress, and other repositories.

By David Allan Lambert

Published by American Ancestors in January 2025

8 ½ x 11 laminated, 4 pages

Learn what records exist and where to find them, what information they contain, and how to use them to further your research.

By Ann G. Lawthers, ScD

Published by American Ancestors in January 2025

8 ½ x 11 laminated, 4 pages

Learn how to locate different types of newspapers and take advantage of the wealth of genealogical information they can contain, including birth, engagement, marriage, and death announcements; legal and court notices; notices of land sales; crime reporting; social reporting; advertisements; and shipping news.

By Ann G. Lawthers, ScD

Published by American Ancestors in January 2025

8 ½ x 11 laminated, 4 pages

The author’s early interest in genealogy led to his first book on a branch of the Cabots, based on information easily available locally. He became a serious genealogist in 1997 after he was invited to participate in the 500-year reenactment at Bristol, England, of John Cabot's voyage to Newfoundland (he claims no descent from the explorer).

A collection of articles on New England Native American genealogy, history, and culture that have appeared in the Register or American Ancestors magazine (formerly New England Ancestors) from 1854 to the present. Topics include Black and Native people of Old Braintree, Mass.; William of Sudbury; King Philip; Indians in colonial courts; DNA studies on the family of Edmund Rice; the Brotherton Indian Collection; Jos. Daggett of Martha's Vineyard; and Nantucket court records. This important and unique volume also includes a foreword, an introduction, and an index. Edited by Henry B.

This easy-to-use compilation includes seven guides to help with your genealogical writing: Building a Genealogical Sketch, Genealogical Numbering, Editorial Stylesheet, Reference Notes, Indexing, and Compiling a Bibliography, plus Applying to Lineage Societies.

Various authors

8 ½ x 11 paperback; 32 pages

Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective explores the history of toques and top hats, bowlers, and bonnets to add another dimension to understanding your family photographs. Fanciful, frilly, and fascinating, women’s hats made a fashion statement. There were hundreds of choices available each season. And they came with names like Leghorns, Gainsborough’s, poke bonnets, and wide-awakes. Home factories produced trim and hats for milliners, while enterprising women raised small birds destined to be stuffed for hat adornments. Men’s hats could be utilitarian.