31 August 2009

US' bestselling genealogy books

Here, to round off the bestselling series, are the bestselling books in the US on genealogy research from ancestry.com

1. The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy: A complete resource to using the Web to trace your family history (Everything Series) by Kimberly Powell

2. The Source: A Guidebook Of American Genealogy (Third Edition) by Sandra Hargreaves Luebking and Loretto Dennis Szucs

3. Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures by Christine Rose

4. Civil War Research Guide: A Guide for Researching Your Civil War Ancestor by Stephen McManus, Donald Thompson, and Thomas Churchill

5. How to Do Everything Genealogy by George G. Morgan

6. Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family's History and Heritage by Barbara Renick and National Genealogical Society

7. The Online Genealogy Handbook by Brad Schepp and Debra Schepp

8. The Organized Family Historian: How to File, Manage, and Protect Your Genealogical Research and Heirlooms (National Genealogical Society Guides) by Ann Carter Fleming

9. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources, Third Revised Edition by Alice Eichholz

10. Genealogy as Pastime and Profession, Second Edition by Donald Lines Jacobus

If you read and commented on my Awful Books posting you may be amused to see the Jacobus book on this list! It's a 1999 publication, recent enough so that edition would have not made the Awful list!


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