When records are lacking, gravestones may be the genealogist's only source of information. Get tips on locating a cemetery, finding a specific gravesite, interpreting gravestone inscriptions, and reading transcriptions of gravestones.
The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.
By Helen Herzer
A companion to Essential Abbreviations and Acronyms, this guide covers more specialized categories, such as Latin terms, legal terms, and terms related to genetic genealogy and Quaker and census records.
The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.
By Chip Rowe
This handy reference guide explains the most important and most common abbreviations you will encounter in your research. Also includes acronyms for sources and organizations.
The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.
Author: Chip Rowe
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
This easy-to-use compilation includes nine guides for using genealogical records: Using the Federal Census: 1790–1840, Using the Federal Census: 1850–1940, New York State Census, Massachusetts State Census, Rhode Island State Census, Immigration to the U.S., U.S. Naturalization, and Using Catholic Records, plus Applying to Lineage Societies.
Various authors
8 ½ x 11 paperback; 40 pages
This compilation presents the first fifty sketches written for the Early New England Families Study Project. The project, under the direction of Alicia Crane Williams, was created to fill the need for accurate and concise published summaries on seventeenth-century New Englanders.
This important work, originally published 1860–1862, provides a wealth of source material on early New England families. A key resource for the Great Migration Study Project, this four-volume set is a crucial component of the essential genealogical library. Includes an all-new index.
By James Savage
Foreword by Gary Boyd Roberts
Published July 2016
This book recreates the lost world of 17th-century Charlestown and the lives and work of the first three generations of its townspeople. By using a variety of surviving records, Thompson presents a colorful history of the town’s settlement and governance, its relationship with the land and sea, the church, local crime and violence, the role of women, and ultimately its involvement in the Glorious Revolution.
By Joseph Caravalho III
Published: September 2011
Hardcover, 400 pages
David W. Kruger, Foreword by Gary Boyd Roberts
Published: January 2019
Hardcover; 1,202 pages in 2 volumes, illustrated
