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[[Category:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources]]
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''Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources'' is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition, called ''Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources'' was published in 1989 and was edited by [[Alice Eichholz]], Ph.D., CG. A revised edition was published in 1992. The current edition, the third, was published in 2004 when the title was changed to simply ''Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources''.

=About the content=
[[File:VermontMap.png|thumb|right|A sample of a county map for Vermont included in ''Red Book: American State, County, and Town Resources''.]]
Red Book is designed to help family historians learn where to find information about their ancestors by taking an approach focused on localities. It is an expansive guide to the most useful resources in each of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Organized by state, the content easily directs the user to information-rich resources in areas including:

*Vital Records

*Census Records

*Internet Resources

*County Resources

*Background Sources

*Land Records

*Probate Records

*Court Records

*Tax Records

*Cemetery Records

*Church Records

*Military Records

*Periodicals, Newspapers, and Manuscript Collections

*Archives, Libraries, and Societies

Major highlights of the content are the county resources published in table format for each state. Information in these tables often include county name, when the county was formed, which counties the new county was created from, and dates for when each county started recording information such as birth, marriage, and death records or land, probate and court records. Each state also has a county, town, or parish map.

=About the contributors=
With [[Alice Eichholz]], Ph.D., CG at the helm of this massive undertaking as the editor, the Red Book is a result of the collective effort of renowned professional researchers and state archivists. Their expertise set the standard for resource identification. 

Here you can find a [[Contributors to Red Book | list of contributors]] to the third edition of ''Red Book''.

=''Red Book'' Online=

In 2010, [http://www.ancestry.com Ancestry.com] digitized the content of ''Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources'' along with ''The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy'' and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles, links to which are found below:

==Third Edition Table of Contents==

[[Introduction to Red Book]]

[[Alabama Family History Research]]

[[Alaska Family History Research]]

[[Arizona Family History Research]]

[[Arkansas Family History Research]]

[[California Family History Research]]

[[Colorado Family History Research]]

[[Connecticut Family History Research]]

[[Delaware Family History Research]]

[[District of Columbia Family History Research]]

[[Florida Family History Research]]

[[Georgia Family History Research]]

[[Hawaii Family History Research]]

[[Idaho Family History Research]]

[[Illinois Family History Research]]

[[Indiana Family History Research]]

[[Iowa Family History Research]]

[[Kansas Family History Research]]

[[Kentucky Family History Research]]

[[Louisiana Family History Research]]

[[Maine Family History Research]]

[[Maryland Family History Research]]

[[Massachusetts Family History Research]]

[[Michigan Family History Research]]

[[Minnesota Family History Research]]

[[Mississippi Family History Research]]

[[Missouri Family History Research]]

[[Montana Family History Research]]

[[Nebraska Family History Research]]

[[Nevada Family History Research]]

[[New Hampshire Family History Research]]

[[New Jersey Family History Research]]

[[New Mexico Family History Research]]

[[New York Family History Research]]

[[North Carolina Family History Research]]

[[North Dakota Family History Research]]

[[Ohio Family History Research]]

[[Oklahoma Family History Research]]

[[Oregon Family History Research]]

[[Pennsylvania Family History Research]]

[[Rhode Island Family History Research]]

[[South Carolina Family History Research]]

[[South Dakota Family History Research]]

[[Tennessee Family History Research]]

[[Texas Family History Research]]

[[Utah Family History Research]]

[[Vermont Family History Research]]

[[Virginia Family History Research]]

[[Washington Family History Research]]

[[West Virginia Family History Research]]

[[Wisconsin Family History Research]]

[[Wyoming Family History Research]]


An [[:Category:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources | index]] to content in ''Red Book: American State, County, and Town Resources'' is also available.

=External Links=

*[http://http://www.amazon.com/Ancestrys-Red-Book-American-Sources/dp/1593311664/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272218733&sr=8-1 Buy ''Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources'', Third Edition]