by Emily Anne Croom

Has your family history search come to dead end?  This guide keeps you hot on the trail with proven research techniques that tat you beyond the basics.               
 

First Steps in Genealogy : A Beginner's Guide to Researching Your Family History 


by Desmond Walls Allen, List Price: $14.99, Our Price: $13.49

Get going on your genealogy!  This guide makes your research fun, easy and instantly rewarding. You'll find all the facts on how and where to get started, including sample forms, a glossary of terms and a resource directories.

Prima's Official Companion to Family Tree Maker 
by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Myra Vanderpool Gormley Our Price: $24.99

Prima's official book, produced in full cooperation with Broderbund, Inc., takes readers a step beyond the software manual. The book presents strategies for compiling family data, researching ancestors via FTM and online resources, and entering and presenting their family trees in a variety of formats. Real-life, project-oriented tutorials show readers how best to create a variety of standardized Family Tree Maker reports and charts as well as original Family Books that can include trees, calendars, scanned pictures and memorabilia, sound and video clips, and much more. 
 
 

Genealogy Online for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm

List Price: $24.99 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $5.00 (20%)
Building your family tree in Cyberspace or just searching online for a bit of history about your ancestors? Whether you're corresponding with far-flung relatives or tracking down elusive family records around the world, a treasure trove of information on family histories is at your fingertips when you log onto the Internet. The trick to finding all that information is knowing where to look. From the foundations of finding family information online to the fundamentals of tracking down public records, maximizing online resources, and creating your own family Web pages, here's the best resource guide to sorting through all the genealogical information available across the Internet. Genealogy Online For Dummies is packed with sound advice, helpful tips, and dozens of selected starting points to begin researching your family history online. Plus, Genealogy Online For Dummies features trial versions of genealogy software (including the popular Family Tree Maker 4.0) and Web authoring programs on the bonus CD-ROM that accompanies the book. 
 

The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy-Revised Edition
edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs, Sandra Hargreaves Luebking

This book is filled with tons of info that will be useful to genealogists regardless of their specific research problems. It could aptly be called a GENEALOGY ENCYCLOPEDIA. It is great for telling you where to find the information you need. If you only have one genealogy book, this is the one to have.
 

Netting Your Ancestors : Genealogical Research On The Internet
by Cyndi Howells. Genealogical Pub Co, 1997. 
182 pages, $19.95.  This a very cool book.  It will be helpful for genealogists new to the internet. It covers getting started using the internet, and then how to use it for your research.  Cyndi Howells internet site has been rated as on of the best.  Your search should start here.
 

In Search of Your European Roots : A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in Every Country in Europe
by Angus Baxter. Genealogical Pub Co, 1994. $16.95.

This book has information about where to find/send for information on your European ancestors, including Lithuania, and Latvia where some of my relatives passed through on their way to the U.S.
 
 

They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Ship
by John Philip Colleta. Ancestry, 1997. 97 pages, $9.95
 

This book was very useful to me in researching passenger ship lists.

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