Genealogy Books

Librarians who must respond to customer requests for genealogical information or family histories will find Librarians Guide to Genealogical Research a useful reference which explains the process and identifies tools the local library will need in order to help. Online and electronic resources as well as reference resources are charted in an excellent survey of how to find the facts.

Working the reference desk in the Genealogy Department of a large public library can be an eye-opening experience. You have to know (or be able to identify) the principal resources for family research that might be very different from your own personal research, often involving regions of the country and ethnic groups with which you have limited experience. You have to be able to instruct beginners in the most basic concepts, often many times each day. And, perhaps most important, you have to be willing to listen (politely) to rambling family stories from library patrons. Swan has been doing all that for forty years -- even longer than me -- and has managed to maintain his enthusiasm to a remarkable degree. He's written a half-dozen previous books on various aspects of library administration and management, but this is his first work that I have seen in genealogy, and it's a terrific book.

Where many such guides merely supply lists of names and addresses, and pointers to web sites, Swan tries to show the professional librarian who is a novice to genealogy how to select the best information sources and what to do with the data you find. He provides excellent advice on building a genealogy book collection and developing a collection of subscription databases, developing genealogy instruction programs in the library, cooperating with local professional researchers, and staying current with the literature. He includes an assortment of forms and classroom handouts, as well as a state-by-state directory of highly selected web and computer resources of special interest to librarians - all of which are also on the enclosed CD. I will go so far as to say that this volume, while not cheap, should be required reading for any genealogy librarian, instructor, mentor, or consultant.

This is a great book. This will be a great add for my genealogy library.

Being an EMT and working with Law Enforcment and a licence plate enthusists, this book provide me with the ability to look up a plate to help out the local PD and also the fun of reading threw the book for my own personal intrest. It provides infrormation for Emergency Service Personel, the begining licence plate collector and the experenced. It provides you with the addresses of state DMVs where you can write to request sample plates. I would recomend this book for anyone with an intrest in licence plates. Also, no police department should be with out this book, espically one that is a big tourist city and gets alot of out of state cars and plates!

An excellent novel. The premise of the book is a mistaken belief that a family member died and the ramifications for the family. The interchanging points of view from the supposedly decesased mother and her daughter highlight many other lies that have governed the conduct of this family. The discovery and the shedding of the lies lead to a renewed family strength while the plot makes the book a page turner. A very enjoyable and enlightening read.

THE LINDER FAMILY with Related Families
Brienz and Meiringen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, America.

Linder families in Meiringen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, 1500-1800rds.
Several generations of these families are traced up through records we found on our research trips to Salt Lake City, Utah.
In the book the Related Families to those in Meiringen are (see below for a list of the related families in the book to those in Brienz and in America); Abbuhi, Amacher, Anderegg, Annen, Bannholzer, Bergen, Bircher, Blatter, Brettig, Brunner, Duell, Duhli, Dunil, Egger, Ex, Fanner, Fischer, Flutigel, Frutiger, Fuhrer, Gaggi, Geltach, Gessner, Graber, Horger, Huggler, Jabaumgarten, Jaggi, Jaun, Joder, Kehrli, Kohler, Leuthold, Ludi, Maurer, Meyer, Mezener, Michel, Mosel, Neiger, Oswald, Otth, Ritschard, Roth, Rubl, Schild, Schilt, Sonlit, Tannier, Thull, Tinniel, vonBergen, Winterberger, Wyss, Zenger, Zoolist, Zumstein, Zwald.

Linder families in Brienz, Canton of Bern, Switzerland and in America.
In Switzerland 1600-1800rds, and in America 1800-to the present time.
Hans Linder, wife Anna Staehli, begins our records in Switzerland in the 1600ds. We carry many of his descendants up through the generations. In the 1800ds
Heinrich, Herminia, Robert, Alfred and Hermann came to America. In America we trace them up to the present time through church and other records. See a list of some of their Related Families below.

The Linder Family book has 211 pages of generations, genealogies, history, marriages into other families, their births, deaths, and many other things. We tell about some of the many places that are named in honor of those with the surname. We tell you about the origin of the surname. There are maps and information
about some of the places where they lived. More information about the book is given on our website. [...]

I am a living example of this book. I am an immediate offspring of the George Primm Sr. & Mariah Hicks marriage. This book is also a good example for others that want to trace their family's history.

Worth it's weight in Gold! The best reference on Naval Officers in existence for Naval researchers. If it happened before 1900 in the U.S. Navy it's in this book in some way or other. A must have for serious Naval Historians.

This is a list not only of the early settlers of Georgia but of the first settlers of Georgia, and it is apparently a complete list of all those who were sent by the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America under Oglethorpe and the Earl of Egmont. Based on the Egmont manuscripts, now in the possession of the University of Georgia, this list of settlers is given under two headings: first, those who went from Europe to Georgia at the Trustees' expense; and, second, those who went on their own account. Covering the period from 1732 to 1741, these two lists together contain the names and details of 3,000 immigrants, most of whom were assigned lots in Savannah and Frederica and a good number of whom would soon leave the colony for the Carolinas.

Information pertaining to each settler consists, generally, of name, age, occupation, place of origin, names of spouse, children and other family members, dates of embarkation and arrival, place of settlement, and date of death. In addition, some of the more notorious aspects of the settlers' lives are recounted in brief, telltale sketches, which enable the researcher to divine something of the character of the colony and the times.

The Clearfield edition includes E. Merton Coulter's invaluable article on the first shipload of Georgia settlers who sailed on the Anne, 16 November 1732, which was appended to the second printing of Early Settlers in 1967.

I learned a lot from this little booklet, it could have had several more pages. I was able to get a guideline on how to construct questions to ask older family members.