Books The Genealogist’s Companion and Sourcebook

The Genealogist's Companion and Sourcebook, second edition, is a comprehensive and informative guide to numerous U.S. public and government sources for research. The focus of the book is to encourage genealogists to identify and try sources new to them. The text concentrates on how the sources can help you, how to use them, and how and where to find them. Research facilities discussed include public and private libraries, courthouses, academic libraries, law libraries, and state and national archives.

This useful and practical guide also contains:

• extensive reference material on federal and state census records
• information on finding and using fire insurance maps, newspapers, cemeteries, city directories, church records, land and property records, and much more
• numerous illustrations, research examples, and Internet references
• success stories from genealogists who have used the sources
• sources for and case studies on African-American, American Indian, and immigration research

Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 2003. 2d ed. 454 pages, softbound.
$19.99 retail. ISBN 1-55870-651-8.

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