25 August 2009

Canada's bestselling genealogy books

As of 24 August 2009, here are the bestselling non-fiction books found by searching "Genealogy" at www.amazon.ca/. Books not relevant to researching or understanding family history, such as The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche, are removed from the list. In some cases that's a judgement call!

1. Deep Ancestry: Inside The Genographic Project by Spencer Wells
2. Tracing Your Irish Family History by Ryan Tubridy and Anthony Adolph
3.
Flight from Famine: The Coming of the Irish to Canada by Donald MacKay
4.
Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace by Elizabeth Shown Mills
5. Tracing Your Scottish Family History by Ryan Tubridy and Anthony Adolph
6.
Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada, 1761-1853 by Terrence M. Punch
7.
Finding Your Canadian Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide by Sherry Irvine and Dave Obee
8.
The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker by Tana Pedersen Lord
9.
The Phillimore Atlas & Index of Parish Registers by Cecil R. Humphery-Smith
10.
Scottish Genealogy: Tracing Your Ancestors by Bruce Durie

2 comments:

Old Census Scribe said...

Do you know the publisher of "Deep Ancestry: Inside The Genographic Project" by Spencer Wells?
It intrigues my curiosity and Ancestry is useless for reviews.

Anonymous said...

To find the publisher of a current book in print, you can go to amazon.ca. Search for the title, then when you've got the full record up for the item, scroll down to "Product Details". You can find the publisher, publication date and ISBN there.