The 4th edition of Genealogist's Address Book is a national Yellow Pages for the genealogist. It is the only comprehensive list of current genealogical and historical resources.
Classified by subject, cross-reference and alphabetized, it provides names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers, web sites, contact persons and the business hours of more than 25,000 libraries, archives, genealogical societies, historical societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, religious organizations and archives, surname registries, research centers, special interest groups, periodicals, genealogical newspaper columns, publishers, booksellers, genealogical services, and databases.
It is based on a written survey of thousands of organizations and institutions across the county and supplemented by information from printed and Internet sources by the compiler, Elizabeth Petty Bentley. It includes hundreds of organizations new to the genealogical scene or overlooked in previous editions. It also has an exhaustive index of periodicals and newsletters.
A must for your personal library, The Genealogist's Address Book is a 842-page, 8 1/2"x11'' paperback available ($43.85 postpaid) from Genealogical Publishing Company, 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202-2387; (800) 296-6687.
Maryland Genealogical Research by George K. Schweitzer, Ph.D., Sc. D., is a genealogical research guidebook -- for tracing your ancestors easily and quickly in this locality. It is divided into four chapters: 1) History of the State; 2) Types of Records (descriptions and locations of major records); 3) Record Locations (how and where to find original records, transcripts, microfilms, books, manuscripts, compilations, periodicals, and indexes); and 4) Research Procedure and County Listings.
This 242-page paperback includes information about all 23 counties and Baltimore, its one independent city, Baltimore, and their records of genealogical value. Records, and the dates they cover, that have been filmed and can be borrowed through the Family History Library system are so indicated as well as films that can be borrowed on interlibrary loan, such as certain county records found at the Maryland State Archives.
If you have ancestral links to Maryland, you need this guidebook. It's available ($15 postpaid) from Dr. Schweitzer, 407 Ascot Court, Knoxville, TN 37923.
Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas: A Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the Western Hemisphere by Christina K. Schaefer, is a huge book -- 829 pages.
Its scope covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution. However, the time line extends somewhat later in certain instances.
Part Two pertains to where to find colonial records of Latin America. Part Three is the Caribbean -- the history and records of Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Leeward and Windward islands, Cuba, French Antilles, Hispaniola, Jamaica, The Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Virgin Islands.
Part Four is about the 13 American colonies, Maine, and Vermont, while Part Five contains information about other U.S. states with settlements prior to the American Revolution.
Information about Canada is in Part Six; subdivided under New France (Quebec and Ontario), Acadia (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island), and other North American colonies -- Saint Pierre-et-Miquelon, Newfoundland and Labrador and Rupter's Land.
Part Seven contains resources for further research: Religious groups in the New World; Africa and the New World; foreign records at the Library of Congress; and colonial sources in Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.
"Colonial Americas'' is available ($53.45 postpaid) from Genealogical Publishing Company, 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21202-2387; (800) 296-6687.
(c) 1998, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
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