{"id":3763,"date":"2016-12-12T17:26:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T17:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:22:27","slug":"books-on-my-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"Books On My Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have asked, this is a partial list of genealogical references on my bookshelf. I&#8217;ll update it with others as I create the links, but I&#8217;m only going to add books that I personally have experience with and that I actually use. There are other good books out there, but I only mention ones with which I have actual experience.<\/p>\n<p>Your experience may vary. Sometimes one can get used library editions for low-cost&#8211;other times not so much.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hlVZ9H\">State Census Records<\/a><\/em> by Ann S. Lainhart<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hNq3HU\">Genealogist&#8217;s Handbook for New England Research<\/a><\/em>, 5th edition, edited by Michael J. Leclerc<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hlZuND\">Land and Property Research<\/a><\/em> by E. Wade Hone&#8211;a personal favorite of mine&#8211;although it is weak on methodology in local records in federal land states.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gsSgTy\"><em>Researcher&#8217;s Guide to American Genealogy<\/em><\/a>, 3rd Edition, by Val D. Greenwood<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gRGG59\">The Source<\/a><\/em>, edited by Lou Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking&#8211;probably the best overview of American sources there is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gwJ9pD\"><em>Digging for Genealogical Treasure in New England Town Records <\/em><\/a>by \u00a0Ann S. Lainhart<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gRIlHV\">The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe<\/a><\/em> by James Beidler<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hwhYeE\">Trace Your German Roots Online: A Complete Guide to German Genealogy Websites<\/a><\/em> by James Beidler<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hm9hQN\">German-English Genealogical Dictionary<\/a><\/em> by Ernest Thode<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2hw5uDN\">Deciphering Handwriting in German Document: Analyzing German, Latin, and French in Historical Manuscripts<\/a><\/em> by Roger Minert<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gwUZQM\">Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace<\/a><\/em>, Third Edition by Elizabeth Shown Mills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who have asked, this is a partial list of genealogical references on my bookshelf. I&#8217;ll update it with others as I create the links, but I&#8217;m only going to add books that I personally have experience with and that I actually use. There are other good books out there, but I only mention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}