This handy reference guide explains the most important and most common abbreviations you will encounter in your research. Also includes acronyms for sources and organizations.

The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.

Author: Chip Rowe

This easy-to-use compilation includes seven guides to help with your genealogical writing: Building a Genealogical Sketch, Genealogical Numbering, Editorial Stylesheet, Reference Notes, Indexing, and Compiling a Bibliography, plus Applying to Lineage Societies.

Various authors

8 ½ x 11 paperback; 32 pages

This easy-to-use compilation includes nine guides for using genealogical records: Using the Federal Census: 1790–1840, Using the Federal Census: 1850–1940, New York State Census, Massachusetts State Census, Rhode Island State Census, Immigration to the U.S., U.S. Naturalization, and Using Catholic Records, plus Applying to Lineage Societies.

Various authors

8 ½ x 11 paperback; 40 pages

This compilation presents the first fifty sketches written for the Early New England Families Study Project. The project, under the direction of Alicia Crane Williams, was created to fill the need for accurate and concise published summaries on seventeenth-century New Englanders.

This important work, originally published 1860–1862, provides a wealth of source material on early New England families. A key resource for the Great Migration Study Project, this four-volume set is a crucial component of the essential genealogical library. Includes an all-new index.

By James Savage  

Foreword by Gary Boyd Roberts

Published July 2016

This book recreates the lost world of 17th-century Charlestown and the lives and work of the first three generations of its townspeople. By using a variety of surviving records, Thompson presents a colorful history of the town’s settlement and governance, its relationship with the land and sea, the church, local crime and vio­lence, the role of women, and ultimately its involvement in the Glorious Revolution.

By Joseph Caravalho III

Published: September 2011

Hardcover, 400 pages

David W. Kruger, Foreword by Gary Boyd Roberts

Published: January 2019

Hardcover; 1,202 pages in 2 volumes, illustrated

By Christopher C. Child, Patricia Law Hatcher, and Kelvin L. Meyers

Published November 2013

7 x 10 hardcover, 500 pages, illustrated

Published July 2018

7 x 10 hardcover, 172 pages, illustrated