{"id":5869,"date":"2016-12-14T11:10:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=5869"},"modified":"2024-03-21T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T23:26:59","slug":"books-on-my-shelf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Michael&#8217;s Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have asked, this is a partial list of genealogical references on my bookshelf. I&#8217;ll update it with others as I create the links, but I&#8217;m only going to add books that I personally have experience with and that I actually use. There are other good books out there, but I only mention ones with which I have actual experience. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/genealogy-tip-of-the-day-book\/\">Don&#8217;t forget about &#8220;Genealogy Tip of the Day,&#8221; which is also in book form.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your experience may vary. Sometimes one can get used library editions for low-cost.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hlVZ9H\">State Census Records<\/a><\/em> by Ann S. Lainhart<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hNq3HU\">Genealogist&#8217;s Handbook for New England Research<\/a><\/em>, 5th edition, edited by Michael J. Leclerc<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hlZuND\">Land and Property Research<\/a><\/em> by E. Wade Hone&#8211;a personal favorite of mine&#8211;although it is weak on methodology in local records in federal land states.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogical.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;ref=1783&amp;item_number=2364&amp;affiliate_banner_id=1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Researcher&#8217;s Guide to American Genealogy<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a04th Edition, by Val D. Greenwood<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gRGG59\">The Source<\/a><\/em>, edited by Lou Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking&#8211;probably the best overview of American sources there is.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0842024972\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0842024972&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=gentipoftheda-20&amp;linkId=8f0d9c0480891a0b879c77e615dfd82e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pennsylvania Land Records: A History and Guide for Research<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gentipoftheda-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0842024972\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0<\/em>by Donna Bingham Munger<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gwJ9pD\"><em>Digging for Genealogical Treasure in New England Town Records <\/em><\/a>by \u00a0Ann S. Lainhart<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gRIlHV\">The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe<\/a><\/em> by James Beidler<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hwhYeE\">Trace Your German Roots Online: A Complete Guide to German Genealogy Websites<\/a><\/em> by James Beidler<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2I5FawG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Family Tree Historical Atlas of Germany<\/em><\/a> by James Beidler<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hm9hQN\">German-English Genealogical Dictionary<\/a><\/em> by Ernest Thode<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hw5uDN\">Deciphering Handwriting in German Document: Analyzing German, Latin, and French in Historical Manuscripts<\/a><\/em> by Roger Minert<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gwUZQM\">Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace<\/a><\/em>, Third Edition by Elizabeth Shown Mills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have asked, this is a partial list of genealogical references on my bookshelf. I&#8217;ll update it with others as I create the links, but I&#8217;m only going to add books that I personally have experience with and that I actually use. There are other good books out there, but I only mention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5869","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}