Genealogical writing uses a variety of numbering systems to help organize material and make your research findings accessible to the reader. Whether you are numbering sketches based on descendancy or ancestry, adding generational numbers, or simply numbering a list of children, you should adhere to common standards and styles. This Portable Genealogist will help you navigate and implement these basic numbering systems in your writing.

The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.

By Penny Stratton

When presenting your genealogical information, it’s important to be consistent in how you present your research, refer to certain places and people, and implement your overall style. This Portable Genealogist will help guide your writing and aid in decisions relating to capitalization, spelling, abbreviations, punctuation, and the like. Key elements for Register and ahnentafel style are summarized, and a list of common abbreviations is provided.

This four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder. 

This Portable Genealogist will show you how to compile a bibliography when writing your family history. Numerous examples will cover books, articles, manuscripts, vital records, online sources, and more!

The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.

By Kyle Hurst

If you're ready to turn your family history research into a publication, this Portable Genealogist will help you assemble the basic elements of a genealogical "sketch" and go over the elements of the descendancy (Register style) and ancestor table (ahnentafel) formats.

The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.

By Penny Stratton

A lineage or hereditary society is a member-based group that is organized around a common ancestor or ancestors of historical importance. For example, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants is comprised of members who can trace their lineage to one of the original passengers from the Mayflower. These societies aim to preserve the memory of their common ancestry, participate in historic conservation and education, and may provide original scholarship or a specialized facility to aid family historians.

This updated edition provides genealogists with the latest tools for locating New York State probate records from the past 350 years. A user friendly design, inclusion of online sources, appendixes, and maps help researchers easily navigate this important group of records.

By Gordon L. Remington
Published: January 2011

This expanded edition of the bestselling New Englanders in the 1600s offers researchers an even more comprehensive source for finding the most recent genealogical writing about seventeenth-century New England families. The new edition includes a full five years’ worth of publications, plus select publications from 2011.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society has been collecting published family histories for almost 170 years. Since its founding in 1845, the Society has added tens of thousands of genealo­gies to its shelves.

Whether you are new to genealogy or have been researching for years, this improved edition of our bestselling "writing guide" will help you present your findings in writing.

From the seventeenth century to the present, the diaries in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections — written by men and women from their teens to their nineties — record details of historic events and of their private lives, giving us fresh insight into the past. This new paperback lists the diaries (approximately 300) currently in the American Ancestors archives; images of actual diary pages are included. Perusing the contents, the reader will get an idea of the depth and variety of the collection and also a sense of the rich historical detail the diaries and journals contain.