After years of accumulating and storing keepsakes in attics, garages, basements, and closets, mothballs and climate control methods may, not be adequa...

Your camera can help add to your written family legacy. Photographing documents in a library, reading gravestones in a cemetery, copying photographs, ...

Evernote is an amazing tool for genealogists and you can learn all about it in this handy 4-page laminated guide.

According to professional genealogist Elizabeth Mills, 'Proof' is a conclusion we reach from a body of evidence. No single source can serve as 'proof....

This is an updated edition of the two-sided laminated QuickSheet by Elizabeth Mills that offers the bare-naked essentials of citing sources for everyt...

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...

Offering a 10-step solution to genealogical problems, this QuickSheet will help you leap the proverbial brick wall and save you hours of frustration. ...

An astonishing 40 percent of Americans living today are related to immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1957. While the records the...

This is a laminated quick guide primer for French-Canadian genealogy research. Notes on Unlocking Family History; Surnames; Qubec; Acadia; Hugenots; C...

This is a laminated quick guide primer for Irish genealogy research. Notes on Irish Emigration, Surnames, Record Sources, Census, Civil & Church Recor...

This is a laminated quick guide primer for Scottish genealogy research. Notes on Scottish Emigration, Surnames, Old Parish Registerz, Marriage, Death ...

Carmack's guide to immigration research deals with a titanic subject, reduced to its basic elements so you can grasp the fundamentals of immigration r...

Federal censuses have been taken every ten years since 1790. They are the best known and most commonly used of all genealogical records and have the u...

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 research in just four pages, Myra Gormley's Cherokee Genealogy Research attempts to give you as much useful in...

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...

Throughout history women have been silent partners. As a rule, they left behind few records of themselves because they had few legal rights. When they...

Like the other guides in our "At a Glance" series, Genealogy at a Glance: Massachusetts Genealogy Research gives you all the tools you need to make su...

Chartered by the English in 1663, the colony of Carolina split into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1710. Its development was gradual, but settle...

With records so sparse and far-flung, Old Southwest genealogy is the ideal subject for a research guide that can cover the basic elements of genealogi...

The Family History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints contains the world's largest collection of genealogical materials, and i...

Tracing descent from a Revolutionary War ancestor is a lofty goal, and this "Genealogy at a Glance" publication will give a much-needed kick-start to ...

FamilySearch is the family history arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest genealogy organization in the world. The Church...

In this QuickSheet Elizabeth Mills introduces us to the concept of "Cluster Research" based on the FAN principle, the idea being that to prove identit...

Building on a lifetime of experience, Elizabeth Mills argues that successful research can be achieved by following four specific models: The Research ...

The premise of this QuickSheet is that while databases and indexes are valuable tools for research, they can actually impede the research process. We ...

Contains a series of sample citations showing the correct way to identify online sources such as databases, census images, and digital books and articles.

DNA analysis is the new frontier in genealogical research. Combined with traditional research methods it is the gold standard in genealogy.

This book shows advanced do-it-yourselfers how to tackle common research problems!

The perfect genealogy research companion, whether you are researching online in your home or on site at a library or archive.