LIBRARY - Soft cover, Like New condition, Author: George G. Morgan

A guide to researching family history for beginning and experienced genealogists. Explains how to create a family tree, locate and evaluate documents, and use print and online genealogical resources. Covers selecting computer hardware and software, developing research strategies, overcoming research “dead ends,” and planning genealogical research trips.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Excellent condition, ISBN9780806320953, Author: Sunny Jane Morton and Harold A. Henderson

A guide to identifying, locating, and accessing United States church records for genealogical research, with particular emphasis on major Christian denominations before 1900. Explains how to determine an ancestor’s church affiliation, find and request surviving records, and work with historical church documents. Describes records that may reveal births, marriages, deaths, maiden names, family relationships, previous residences, and immigrants’ overseas birthplaces, including information about people poorly documented in civil sources. Includes hundreds of links to research resources and denomination-specific guidance developed with contributions from more than thirty archivists, historians, and genealogical specialists.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Good condition, Author: Sunny Jane Morton and Harold A. Henderson

An introductory guide to researching Norwegian ancestry, intended to help readers trace their family origins in Norway. Introduces Norwegian genealogical research methods and archival resources for locating information about ancestors.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, Ex-Lib, Excellent condition, ISBN 935775013, Author: Hugh T. Law

A genealogy guide to tracing immigrant ancestors from the United States to their European places of origin. Part I presents contributors’ accounts of successfully locating ancestral records in 20 European countries and areas. Part II identifies U.S. sources that may reveal an immigrant ancestor’s hometown, followed by chapters on researching ancestors in the British Isles, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and Western Europe.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Excellent condition, Author: Kerry Scott

A guide to using Evernote to organize, manage, and share genealogy research. Provides step-by-step instructions for collecting research notes, emails, document images, web clippings, vital records, and audio files in searchable digital notebooks. Covers tagging, research logs, transcription, collaboration, synchronization, backups, and troubleshooting. Includes screenshots, family-history examples, and worksheets and templates for organizing research materials and improving productivity.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Ex Lib, Good condition,  ISBN 155613143, Author: Keith E. Banks

A guide for beginners to collecting, writing, and preserving personal and family histories. Covers journal keeping, establishing family archives, compiling chronologies and pictorial histories, preserving family documents, and conducting and transcribing oral histories. Also includes ideas for involving children, developing family traditions, and reproducing and binding completed histories. Photographs, charts, and sample documents illustrate suggested projects. No prior genealogical experience is required.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, no dust jacket, Good condition, Ex-Lib ISBN 803833814, Author: Federal Writers’ Project for the State of Illinois

A comprehensive guide to Illinois combining state history and cultural background with descriptions of cities, communities, and touring routes. Covers the state’s landscape, Indigenous history, settlement, agriculture, industry, labor, government, education, architecture, and the arts. City profiles and detailed tours highlight historic sites, local landmarks, and regional character, making the volume both a travel guide and a historical portrait of Illinois.

LIBRARY - - $5.00 (Soft cover, Good condition ISBN 0-385-19276-2. Author: James B. Bell and Richard I. Abrams

An illustrated history of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, published to commemorate the statue’s centennial. The volume brings together historical narrative and photographs to explore these two landmarks and their connections to immigration and the search for liberty. Its contents include “Statue of Liberty,” “Island of Hope,” and “Search for Liberty.”

LIBRARY - In Search of Your British & Irish Roots, A Complete Guide to Tracing Your English, Welsh, Scottish, & Irish Ancestors - $4.00 (Soft cover, Ex Lib, Good condition ISBN 806311274, Author: Angus Baxter

A guide to tracing family ancestry in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Beginning with instructions for compiling a family tree and using sources close to home, Baxter explains how to locate and research census records, wills, parish registers, historical archives, and other genealogical resources. The book provides guidance for conducting research in person or by correspondence and locating ancestral records in Britain and Ireland.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Like New condition, ISBN: 9780806314488, Author: Angus Baxter

A guide to tracing Canadian ancestry, offering advice on beginning genealogical research and working backward from known family information. Discusses European migration to Canada, records held by the national archives in Ottawa, and resources for researching Canadian family history. Intended for readers seeking guidance on locating and using Canadian genealogical sources.

LIBRARY - $8.00 (Hard cover, Excellent condition, ISBN 978-9996689550, Author: Indiana Historical Society

A genealogical reference index designed to help researchers locate material in the Indiana Source Books series. The series draws on material published in The Hoosier Genealogist, including transcriptions of marriage, land, will, and probate records, as well as church, Bible, and cemetery records contributed from across Indiana’s 92 counties. A useful companion for family historians researching Indiana ancestors and local history.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, Good condition, ExLib, Author: Willard Heiss 

A compilation of genealogical records originally published in The Hoosier Genealogist from 1961 through 1966. Includes transcriptions of original county records, such as marriage, land, will, and probate records, along with church, family Bible, and cemetery records. Contributions from individuals and organizations throughout Indiana provide source material for researching families and communities across the state’s 92 counties.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, Good condition, author: Willard Heiss

A compilation of genealogical material originally published in The Hoosier Genealogist from 1967 through 1972. Includes transcriptions and abstracts of Indiana county records—marriages, land transactions, wills, and probate proceedings—as well as church, family Bible, and cemetery records. Contributions from individuals and organizations throughout Indiana represent all 92 counties. Contents also include school enumerations, tax and voter lists, pension rolls, children’s indentures, early census indexes, and pioneer reminiscences. 

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Like New, ISBN 0822955385, Author: Virginia K. Bartlett

A social history of women’s everyday lives in western Pennsylvania during its transformation from a frontier region into established farms and towns. Drawing on manuscript cookbooks, journals, letters, travelers’ accounts, memoirs, and newspapers, the author examines how women established households, raised families, and adapted to the physical and emotional hardships of life west of the Allegheny Mountains. Domestic activities—including cooking, washing, candlemaking, and weaving—illuminate women’s work and their contributions to family and community life. The book contrasts rural households living with few necessities with the affluent homes of Pittsburgh’s elite, while exploring women’s limited autonomy and legal protections, particularly concerning property. Period artwork and photographs of furnishings, housewares, clothing, and portraits complement the narrative.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Like New condition, Author V. Ben Bloxham

A reference guide to surviving Scottish parish registers before the introduction of civil registration in 1855. Provides information about the condition and completeness of parish records, noting gaps and other limitations that may affect genealogical research. Helps researchers assess the availability of church records of baptisms, marriages, and burials when tracing Scottish ancestors.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Good condition ISBN 9781607511779, Author: Cokie Roberts

A companion to Founding Mothers, this narrative history explores the women who helped shape the United States from 1796 to 1825. Drawing on personal letters, private journals, and other primary sources, Roberts interweaves biographical portraits of first ladies, educators, explorers, philanthropists, and reformers, including Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Rebecca Gratz, and Sacagawea. Their stories reveal how women influenced political life, advanced education and charitable work, and balanced public contributions with private responsibilities during the nation’s formative years.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, dust jacket, Excellent condition, Ex-Lib, ISBN 978146795928, Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

A comparative study of presidential leadership through the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Examines their early ambitions, personal hardships, political setbacks, and growth as leaders, showing how adversity prepared them to confront national crises. Explores the relationship between character and circumstance, emphasizing moral purpose, resilience, and the ability to improve the lives of others. Johnson’s presidency is considered particularly through his work on civil rights.

LIBRARY -  Soft cover, NEW, ISBN 1-55870-503-1, Author: Kathleen W. Hinckley

A guide to finding relatives, friends, and other individuals through genealogical research techniques. Explains how to use Social Security information, telephone directories, census documents, and Internet resources to locate people from both the past and present. Applies family-history research methods to the search for people whose whereabouts are unknown.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Excellent condition, ISBN 558706143, Author: Patricia Law Hatcher

A  guide to identifying, locating, and interpreting land records for genealogical research. Through step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and real examples, the author explains how to use grants, deeds, mortgages, surveys, and related documents to trace ancestors and uncover family relationships. Topics include land transfers, the public-land survey system, and plotting metes-and-bounds land descriptions. The book shows how land records can establish an ancestor’s residence, suggest earlier or later places of residence, identify spouses and other relatives, and reconstruct the surrounding community. Suitable for both beginning and experienced genealogists.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Good condition, ISBN 155870535X, Author: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer

A guide to researching family history without traveling to distant repositories. Explains how to locate and obtain family records and documents through libraries, family history centers, archival repositories, microfilm, and the Internet. Designed for “armchair researchers,” the book offers techniques for accessing records and publications remotely and overcoming the difficulties of long-distance genealogical research.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, dust jacket, Excellent condition, ISBN 9781640097759, Author: Wendell Berry

In this novel in Wendell Berry’s Port William series, Andy Catlett shares with his children and grandchildren the story of his grandfather Marce and a crisis that shaped their family’s future. Traveling to Louisville to sell his 1906 tobacco crop, Marce discovers that the powerful buyer controlling the market offers less than the cost of bringing the harvest to auction. He returns home having lost a year’s labor, yet determined to continue farming. As growers seek a way forward through cooperation, Marce’s experience becomes an enduring family story about resilience, economic injustice, and responsibility to the land. The author explores how the memories passed between generations sustain a family and a community.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, dust jacket, Very Good condition ISBN 9780345521330 Author: Alison Weir

A biography of Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn and mistress of Henry VIII, that reexamines her life and disputed reputation. Alison Weir explores Mary’s place at the French and English courts, her reported relationship with Francis I of France, her affair with Henry VIII, her marriages, and her relationship with the ambitious Boleyn family. Drawing on historical research, Weir distinguishes documented evidence from rumor and considers the longstanding question of whether Henry VIII fathered either of Mary’s children.

LIBRARY -  Soft cover, Very Good Condition ISBN 312950675, Author: Margaret George

A sweeping historical novel tracing the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, from her childhood in the French court to her turbulent reign in Scotland and eventual imprisonment and execution in England. Against a backdrop of religious conflict and political intrigue, Mary struggles to secure her throne while navigating marriage, betrayal, and her dangerous rivalry with Elizabeth I. Blending historical research with imagined scenes, George portrays a queen whose royal birthright brings both extraordinary privilege and devastating consequences.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, Excellent condition, Author: Jacques Kelly

A pictorial survey of Maryland’s first 350 years, combining historical photographs and explanatory text to portray the state’s development, traditions, landmarks, and distinctive character. Presents Maryland’s history through images and narrative, offering an accessible introduction to the state’s heritage.

LIBRARY - Soft cover in binder, Good condition, Ex-Lib, Author: John W. Heisey

A reference guide for genealogists and family historians researching Maryland ancestry.

 LIBRARY - Soft cover, like new condition ISBN 978-1-58297-458-3, Author: Maura D. Shaw

A guide to finding and evaluating information on the Internet for both beginning and experienced researchers. Covers basic and advanced search techniques, Boolean operators, effective search strings, reference websites, and methods for assessing websites for accuracy, relevance, and currency. Additional topics include researching people and places; locating images, audio, and video; conducting research for writing and publishing; and understanding permissions and copyright. Step-by-step instructions and screenshots illustrate techniques for conducting more efficient searches and recognizing when sufficient information has been gathered.

LIBRARY - Hardcover, Like New condition ISBN 0452284597, Author: Andro Linklater

A narrative history of how surveying, standardized measurements, and the sale of public lands helped shape the United States. Andro Linklater traces the surveying of lands west of the Ohio River and explores how the American system of measurement influenced property ownership, settlement, and the physical layout of the nation. Combining history and popular science, the book connects the surveyor’s chain and the grid of townships to broader developments in American commerce, culture, and democracy.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Like New condition, ISBN 9780998684468 Author: Beth Brown

A concise instructional guide to using Microsoft PowerPoint 2019 to create presentations. Provides step-by-step guidance and includes a tear-out quick-reference section for convenient access to instructions. Designed as a compact resource for learning and reviewing PowerPoint procedures.

LIBRARY - Soft Cover, Ex Lib, Excellent condition, ISBN 091133307x, Author: National Archives Trust Fund Board

A reference guide to selected National Archives microfilm publications documenting United States military service. The catalog covers compiled military service records, records relating to service in the regular U.S. military, veterans’ claims, and miscellaneous military-service records. Intended for genealogists, historians, and other researchers, it helps users identify relevant microfilmed federal records rather than reproducing individual service files.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Good condition ISBN 1-56884-606-1, Author: John R. Levine and Margaret Levine Young

An introductory guide to using the Internet, written for readers who want to move beyond basic online access. Explains how to choose and use Internet services, connect through commercial providers and direct-access systems, communicate online, locate information, and use emerging Internet tools. Includes coverage of technical topics such as packet switching, SLIP connections, Windows Internet software, file transfer, and web browsing, with advice intended to help users make effective use of online resources.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Like new condition ISBN 0806305622, Author: William Nelson

A collection of 224 biographies of colonial New Jersey residents, many containing extensive genealogical information. Revised and expanded by the author from material in the New Jersey Archives, the work also references approximately 1,000 additional colonists and their genealogical connections. It provides a reference source for research into colonial New Jersey individuals and families.

LIBRARY - Hard cover,Dust jacker, Excellent condition, ISBN 9780241895146, Author: Vernon Noble

A reference work on nicknames, examining their use in the past and present. Offers material of interest to readers researching personal names, naming traditions, and historical identities.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Very Good condition, Ex-Lib, ISBN 9780684804484, Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin

A sweeping history and intimate dual biography, No Ordinary Time examines Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s complex partnership and its influence on the American home front during World War II. Focusing on 1940–1945, the author traces the United States’ transformation from a Depression-weary, divided nation into a dominant economic and military power. While Franklin mobilized the country for war, Eleanor championed civil rights, social welfare, and the preservation of New Deal reforms. Drawing on diaries, interviews, and White House records, Goodwin interweaves national events with the Roosevelts’ private lives, revealing how their differing priorities and shared commitment helped reshape American society.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Like new condition, ISBN 978-0-7385-773-4, Author: Edward J. Russo and Curtis R. Mann

A photographic history of Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois, the burial place of Abraham Lincoln. Drawing on historic images from the Sangamon Valley Collection at Springfield’s Lincoln Library, the authors trace approximately 150 years of the cemetery’s development, from its dedication in 1860. The book explores its landscaped grounds, its significance in American landscape architecture, and its reflection of Victorian attitudes toward death and remembrance. It also presents the cemetery as a place of beauty and quiet reflection for the living.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, dust jacket, Like new condition ISBN 0-517-06986-5 Author: Nancy S. Grant

An illustrated history of the American flag, depicting historic flags and their roles in significant events. Explores the flag’s use as a theme in art and its presence at monuments, parades, and ceremonies, celebrating its place in American life.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Excellent condition, Signed by author ,ISBN 1-4016-0021-2 Authors: Pamela Boyer Porter and Amy Johnson Crow

A guide to using the Internet for family-history research. Explains effective online searching, evaluating the value of information found, and locating historical and contemporary records worldwide. Covers finding family photographs, contacting distant relatives, and using online resources to explore family history and heritage.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Good condition, Ex-Lib, ISBN 1-55870-511-2, Author: Sharon DeBartolo Carmack

A guide to organizing genealogical research and managing the papers, books, and other materials that accumulate during a family history search. Covers creating a family history filing system, arranging a home workspace, preparing for research trips, and preserving research materials. Emphasizes methods for keeping information accessible so researchers can spend less time searching through their files and more time tracing their ancestors.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, Excellent condition, Slip cover box, ISBN 9781435141582

A family-history record book intended for documenting a family tree and preserving genealogical information.

LIBRARY- Soft cover, Excellent condition ISBN 871951185, Author: Indiana Historical Society

A photographic and historical account of historian Reuben Gold Thwaites’s 1894 journey down the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers in the fifteen-foot skiff Pilgrim. Seventy photographs, accompanied by excerpts from his daily notes, document river communities, landscapes, industry, and everyday life along the approximately 1,100-mile route. Essays by Robert L. Reid and Dan Hughes Fuller place the journey and photographs in historical context, exploring Thwaites’s interest in the river’s pioneer past and the significance of his images as records of late-nineteenth-century river culture.

LIBRARY -  Soft cover, Like New condition, ISBN 0-671-22611-8, Author: Joanna Stratton

Drawing on a collection of approximately 800 memoirs gathered by her great-grandmother, Lilla Day Monroe,the author recounts the lives of women on the Kansas frontier from 1854 to 1890. Firsthand recollections interwoven with historical narrative illuminate the challenges of settlement, domestic and farm labor, isolation, extreme weather, and prairie life. The book also explores family and community relationships, schools, churches, frontier towns, and women’s involvement in temperance and suffrage, offering an intimate social history of women’s contributions to frontier settlement. Includes illustrations, bibliographical references, and an index.

LIBRARY - Practical Geealogy - $4.00 (Soft Cover, Excellent condition, ISBN 164611566X, Autho: Brian Sheffey

A beginner‑friendly guide that shows the through the entire process of investigating and documenting your family history in small, manageable steps. It focuses especially on helping researchers work with diverse and sometimes hard‑to‑trace lineages, including families affected by adoption, enslavement, migration, or name changes. The book is structured as 50 short steps that cover core skills: defining your research questions, organizing files, using major online databases, documenting sources, and building a research outline. It also introduces key record types—vital records, censuses, land, immigration, military, financial and church records—and explains how to interpret and correlate them in practice. The layout is designed to be accessible, using clear language, larger fonts, and easy‑to‑read charts and images so that older adults and true beginners can follow along comfortably over time.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, dust jacket, Excellent condition ISBN 0-916489-70-1, Author: Kory L. Meyerink

A comprehensive reference guide to locating, understanding, and using published materials for family history research. Organized into four major sections—background information, finding aids, published original records, and compiled records—the volume examines sources such as research manuals, atlases, vital records, county and family histories, and genealogical periodicals. It explains how and why these sources were created, the information they contain, their strengths and limitations, and where researchers can find them. Chapters include bibliographies; appendices cover CD-ROM resources, major U.S. genealogical libraries, and genealogical publishers and booksellers. Serves as both a practical research handbook and a bibliography of published genealogical resources.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Excellent condition, ISBN 9781501121470 . Authot: Tim Marshall

The journalist/author examines how geography shapes international politics, national security, and the choices available to world leaders. Through ten regional maps and accompanying essays, he explores how mountains, rivers, oceans, borders, and natural resources influence countries’ strengths, vulnerabilities, and relationships with their neighbors. Drawing on history and contemporary affairs, Marshall shows how physical landscapes help explain conflicts, alliances, economic development, and the global balance of power. Regions covered include Russia, China, the United States, Western Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and Pakistan, Japan and Korea, Latin America, and the Arctic.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Excellent condition, ISBN 0916489647, Author: Patricia Law Hatcher

A guide to turning genealogical research into an organized, readable, and attractive family history book. Covers planning and organizing material, writing family narratives, selecting typefaces, applying consistent grammar and punctuation, preparing bibliographies, and incorporating photographs and illustrations. Also addresses page and chapter layout, indexing, and preparing the finished work for printing. Suitable for both first-time authors and experienced genealogists.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, Like new condition ISBN 1-59331-166-4, Author: Alice Eichholz

A comprehensive reference guide to genealogical research in the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Arranged alphabetically by state, entries provide historical background and describe sources for vital, census, land, probate, court, tax, cemetery, church, and military records. Coverage also includes newspapers, manuscript collections, archives, libraries, genealogical societies, and online resources. County and town listings identify record availability, beginning dates, and repositories, while maps help researchers locate relevant jurisdictions. Includes bibliographical references and an index.

LIBRARY - Soft cover, Ex Lib, Excellent condition. ISBN 9781593312992. Author: Patricia Law Hatcher

A guide to tracing ancestors in colonial New England before 1776. The author introduces the historical world in which these ancestors lived and explains the records they left behind, helping family historians navigate the distinctive challenges of colonial-era genealogical research. Includes maps, a chronology, and an extensive list of research resources.

LIBRARY - Hard cover dust jacket, Like New condition, ISBN 9780307701220, Author: Joseph J. Ellis

An account of the pivotal summer of 1776, when the thirteen American colonies declared independence while facing a major British military campaign. The author/historian  interweaves the Continental Congress’s political deliberations with George Washington’s efforts to preserve the Continental Army, showing how decisions on each front shaped the other. Through portraits of Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and British commanders Richard and William Howe, Ellis explores the leadership, uncertainty, and improvisation that marked the nation’s founding.

LIBRARY -  3-ring binder, Good condition Author: Ruth Slevin

A genealogical reference compilation of will records from Ripley County, Indiana, covering 1821–1896. Provides source material for researching county residents, family relationships, and the distribution of estates during the nineteenth century.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, Excellent condition, ISBN 978-1298630636, Author: Ohio Adjutant General's Office

An official military roster identifying Ohio soldiers who served in the War of 1812. Compiled from the Adjutant General’s records, the volume presents unit rolls listing officers and enlisted men by name and rank. Provides a reference for researching individual soldiers, Ohio militia units, and the state’s participation in the war.

LIBRARY - Hard cover, dust jacket, Excellent condition, Ex-Lib, ISBN 9780743299114, Author: Ira Stoll

A biography of Samuel Adams that examines his pivotal role in organizing resistance to British rule and sustaining the American Revolution. Ira Stoll traces Adams’s work as a political writer, revolutionary organizer, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, emphasizing how his deep religious convictions shaped his commitment to liberty. Exploring both his public achievements and personal hardships, the book restores an often-overlooked Founding Father to a central place in the story of American independence.