Top low-cost genealogy Ebooks

If you have an Ereader, and 25% of North Americans do according to recent statistics, you'll have noticed the phenomenon of low cost Ebooks. Let's have a look at the five top ranked genealogy titles at less than $5 in the Kindle store according to their stats. To be included here they each had to have a sales rank better than 100,000 or rating greater than 3.5. I only included titles with two or more ratings.

The table is ordered by price. Notice there's no apparent correlation between price, rating, number of pages or sales rank. Sales rank swings wildly; the figure in the table was found on the evening on Wednesday 10 October - it's likely considerably different now!

Title	Author	Price	Rating (out of 5)	Pages	Publication date	Sales Rank
Finding your ancestors	Rochelle Reben, Beth Jane Reben	$.99	5	52	Aug 15, 2011	94,068
Putting flesh on the bones: bringing your ancestors to life	Mark W Swarthout	$1.29	3.5	42	Jul 30, 2012	98,421
101 of the best free websites for climbing your family tree	Nancy Hendrickson	$2.99	3.6	50	Mar 10, 2011	47,270
Family tree: cemetery research on the Internet	Nancy Hendrickson	$2.99	2.8	25	Jun 23, 2010	99,644
Irish genealogy tips, techniques and tales	M. D. Healy	$4.99	5	66	Dec 31, 2011	224,332

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With the exception of the Irish book these are all US-oriented although with considerable content more widely applicable.

Two books on this list are authored by Nancy Hendrickson, a contributing editor of the (US) Family Tree Magazine. According to her web-site her books are repurposed from the many magazine articles previously published. She has 13 titles in all, 10 of which relate to history or family history. Only one sells for over $5.

There are no British or Canadian books on the list.

British introductory genealogy is served by Branching Out: How To Research Your Family's History by Simon Fowler priced at $2.99. It will get you going, an introduction leading to his Family History: Digging Deeper also in a Kindle version at $13.12.

There's no introductory Canadian genealogy book - an opportunity for some enterprising Canadian genealogist-writer. The specialist Researching Canadian Soldiers of the First World War by Michael O'Leary looks interesting at 221 pages selling for only $1.99