Your German Ancestry is a brief but thorough introduction to finding German ancestors. It presents the most up-to-date sources and resources for succe...

We start with a couple of interesting facts: 8.3 million Americans (3% of the total population) claimed French ancestry in the 2000 US census, and 2.4...

Designed to cover the basic elements of genealogical research in just four pages, the Genealogy at a Glance series (GAAG) gives you as much useful inf...

Tour the cemeteries of Pennsylvania's three original counties (Philadelphia, Delaware, and Chester--"The Birthplace of America"). This fascinating gui...

No doubt your ancestors came to America from somewhere -- England, Spain, Germany, China, Africa. Can you imagine how they felt and what they left beh...

Although Scots are known to have ventured to Latin America as early as 1540 (mostly as soldiers of fortune), emigration from Scotland to Latin America...

Naming an additional 3,000 Scots immigrants to the mid-Atlantic region, this book covers the hundred-years immediately following the Revolutionary War...

Prior to the forced migration of Eastern Cherokee during the "Trail of Tears," several hundred tribesmen migrated to Texas in 1819. Following a brief ...

The political union of Scotland and England in 1707 led to a rapid expansion of Scottish economic links with the American colonies, especially on the ...

A Guide for North Americans was the first book to provide a logical research routine for family historians based in North America. Since the first edi...

During the 17th century, as many as 100,000 Scottish Lowlanders relocated to the Plantation of Ulster (Northern Ireland). Within a few generations, th...

As early as 1575, a number of Scottish scholars and merchants gravitated to the cities of Holland, Zealand, and Flanders because of the educational an...

The Guion Miller Commission, May 1905 - April 1907, identifies the descendants of Eastern Cherokees, about 90,000 individual Native Americans. This is...

Since Finding Italian Roots first appeared in 1993, an ever increasing number of Americans have become interested in tracing their Italian heritage. T...

Genealogically and historically, Kent is an important maritime county which has played a prime defensive role in English history. It is large and dive...

The Scottish connection with the Caribbean started in 1611 with the voyage to the West Indies of the Janet of Leith. It was not until after 1626, howe...

While tradition and historical sources indicate a continuous link between the Chesapeake and Scotland from the early seventeenth century, the specific...

One of the most difficult challenges facing genealogists is establishing where and when their immigrant ancestors arrived from Scotland. This is parti...

Throughout the 17th century, there was a substantial emigration from Scotland to Ireland; this changed during the 18th century when the majority of Sc...

The Guion Miller Commission, May 1905 - April 1907, identifies the descendants of Eastern Cherokees, about 90,000 individual Native Americans. This is...

Although it is difficult to estimate the figure accurately, experts believe that 100,000 Scots emigrated to the United States or Canada during the mid...

Scottish merchants were in the vanguard of Scottish emigration to colonial America. In the 17th century, ships would leave Scotland bound for the Amer...

Nineteenth-century emigration from Scotland to the US was the continuation of a process that had its roots in the seventeenth century. Unlike the majo...

THE DAWES COMMISSION, REGARDED BY SOME AS A HUMAN TRAGEDY, IS ONE of the most highly controversial subjects involving US government treatment of Nativ...

One of the most difficult challenges facing genealogists is establishing where when their immigrant ancestors arrived from Scotland. This is particula...

Polish genealogy is almost completely defined by geography and history. Situated in the center of Europe, Poland has been foster mother to people of m...

Delve into your German heritage! This carefully curated collection of beautiful historical maps of Germany will help you sort out the mess that is German history.

Finding Your Hispanic Roots is quite possibly the most useful manual on Hispanic ancestry ever published. Building on the previously published Tracing...

The best history of the Scotch-Irish of colonial Pennsylvania ever written, Dunaway's classic is indispensable to the genealogist because it outlines ...

Filled with practical advice that will help anyone obtain the information they seek through Italian records, Italian Genealogical Records is a compreh...