Carnival of Genealogy - 56th edition - Part II

In part I of the Carnival, you read the individual submissions to our theme of the ten most essential books in your genealogical library. Now, in part II, we will look at the results of our exercise. Listings will be from most often mentioned to those appearing only once in a listing. All books mentioned are worthwhile or they would not have been included on someone's listing!

15 times

Mills / Evidence Explained

8 times

Mills / Professional Genealogy

6 times

Board of Certification for Genealogists / BCG Genealogical Standards Manual



Greenwood / The Researcher's Guide to Genealogy



One could also argue that The Source belongs here. Because of the different authors of different editions, it makes two appearances in the 3 times list.

5 times

Mills / Evidence!: Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian



Rose / Genealogical Proof Standard

4 times

Carmack / Your Guide to Cemetery Research



Eichholz / Red Book



Hansen / The Handybook for Genealogists

3 times

Carmack / Organizing Your Family History Search



Eakle & Cerny / The Source



Hoffman / Polish Surnames



Hone / Land and Property Research in the United States



McGinnis / Michigan Genealogy



Rising / The Family Tree Problem Solver



Shea & Hoffman / In Their Words



Szucs & Luebking / The Source

2 times

Carmack / You Can Write Your Family History


Croom /Genealogist's Companion & Source Book


Croom /Unpuzzling Your Past


Crowe / Genealogy Online


Dollarhide / New York State Censuses and Substitutes


DuMelle / Finding Your Chicago Ancestors


Geyh et al. / French Canadian Sources


Hatcher / Producing a Quality Family History


Hinckley / Your Guide to the Federal Census


Hoffman & Helon / First Names of the Polish Commonwealth: Origins & Meanings


Humphery-Smith / The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers


Morgan / How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy



Morgan / The Official Guide to Ancestry.com


National Genealogical Society / National Genealogical Society Quarterly


Shea & Hoffman /Following the Paper Trail


Sulimierski, Chlebowski & Walewski / Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich


Taylor /Preserving Your Family Photographs


Taylor / Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs


Thorndale & Dollarhide / Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920



One could also argue that The Everything Family Tree Book goes here. Different submitters gave different authors, but it may be the same title. It is listed once under each author in the "1 time" list.

1 time

Abbot / Our Company Increases Apace

Abbot & Abbot / A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of George Abbot, of Andover

Adolph / Tracing Your Family History

Akenson / Some Family

Allen / First Steps in Genealogy

Anderson / The Great Migration Begins (3 v.)

Anderson & Thode / A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Germanic Ancestors

Anderson, Sanborn, & Sanborn / Great Migration: Immigrants to New England (7 v.)

Armbruster / Brooklyn's Eastern District

Association of Gravestone Studies / AGS Field Guides

Baer & Breeze / Finding Indiana Ancestors

Baker / A Guide to Historic Plymouth

Barran / The Stadte-Atlas of Pommern (Pomerania)

Barrons / 301 Polish verbs

Barth / City People

Baxter / In Search of Your British & Irish Roots

Beard & Demong / How to Find Your Family Roots

Beider / A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire

Beider / Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names

Beider / Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland

Beider / Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galacia

Bell / Out of This Furnace

Benardo & Weiss / Brooklyn by Name

Bennett / Elaine

Bennett / Nell

Bentz / If I Can, You Can Decipher Germanic Records

Billingsley / Communities of Kinship

Bonnen / Sangre Judia

Boyd / Family Maps of Monroe County, Mississippi

Brandt / Germanic Genealogy

Brown / History of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary of the Woods

Burroughs / Black Roots

Burton-Cruber / Cemetery Markings: Itawamba County, Mississippi

Butler / History of the Town of Groton

Butler / Everyman's Dictionary of Dates

Byrne / The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

Carmack / Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists

Carmack / A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Immigrant and Ethnic Ancestors

Carmack & Gaunt / Carmack's Guide to Copyright and Contracts

Carter / Searching American Probate Records

Case / The Hollister Family of America

Cerny & Eakle / Ancestry's Guide to Research: Case Studies in American Genealogy

Chambers / Early Germans of New Jersey

Chavez / Origins of New Mexico Families

Chorzempa / Polish Roots

Christensen / Parishes and Registration Districts in England and Wales

Christensen / How Do I Prove It?

Clearfield Progress / A View From . . .

Clemensson & Andersson / Swedish Roots

Clifford / Becoming an Accredited Genealogist

Conwill / The Diary of Henry Jackson Lentz (1819-1869) of Limestone County, Alabama & Itawamba County, Mississippi Covering the Years 1847-1869.

County Dunham Environmental Education Curriculum / Coal Mining in Co. Dunham

Crichton / America 1900

Croom / Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook

Curran, Crane & Wray / Numbering Your Genealogy

Daniel / Genealogical Resources of New Mexico

Darrah / Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography

Dearden / The German Researcher, How to Get the Most Out of LDS FHC

Delorme Corp. / Mississippi Atlas & Gazetteer: Topo Maps of the Entire State

Drake / What Did They Mean By That?

Dunkle & Lainhart / The Town Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1647 to 1730

Eismann / Photoshop Masking & Compositing

Eismann & Palmer / Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching

Ellis & Evans / The History of Lancaster County

Esquibel & Colligan / The Spanish Recolonization of New Mexico

Evans / Mother Monroe

Faiguenboim / Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames

Feldblyum / Russian-Jewish Given Names

Filby / Bibliography of American County Histories

Fisiak et al. / Nowy słownik Fundacji Kościuszkowskiej = The new Kosciuszko Foundation dictionary.

Flanders / Atlas of American Migration

Forkner & Dyson / Historical Sketches and Reminsces of Madison County

Franks & Turner / An Itawamba Sampler: A Researcher's Guide to Itawamba County, Mississippi

Fretz / A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer

Gingerich & Kreider / Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

Gitlitz / Secrecy and Deceit

Gormley & Lord / The Official Guide to Rootsweb.com

Gorr / Jewish Personal Names

Greene County History Book Committee / Historic Greene County, Tennessee, and Its People: 1783-1992

Gronlund / Pioneer Register: Pioneers of British Columbia, Pre 1900

Grover / U. S. News & World Report Stylebook for Writers & Editors

Gutkind / Keep It Real

Gwin / Olden Times Revisited: W. L. Clayton's Pen Pictures

Hagstrom / Hagstrom's Pocket Atlas New York 5 Boroughs

Hakim / The History of US

Harding / Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations: Vol. 3: Family of George Soule

Hartley / The Everything Family Tree Book

Hatcher / Researching Your Colonial New England Ancestors

Heidgerd / The Freer Family

Herber / Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History

Hicks / Adventures of a Tramp Printer,1880-1890

Hill / History of Coshcocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881

Hinckley / Locating Lost Family Members and Friends

Hispanic Genealogical Research Center of New Mexico / Marriages: Socorro 1854-1900, San Ignacio, San Cristobal, San Marcial, La Jolla

Hoes / Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York, 1660-1809

Holt / Encyclopedia of Etiquette

Hornberger & Hudson / The Historical Atlas of New York City

Howe / Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America

Hunt / Historical Collections of Coshcocton County, Ohio, 1764-1876

Hunter / Marriages of Coshcocton County, Ohio, 1811-1930

Irwin / Robert Irwin’s Brothers and Sisters and their Families from County Cavan, Ireland to Fenelon Township, Ontario

Jackson / The Encyclopedia of New York City

Jaslan / Wiedza Powszechna Compact Polish and English Dictionary

Jonas / A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors

Jones / German-American Names

Kelly / Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire

King / King's Handbook of New York City

Knab / Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore

Kobbe / Kobbe's Guide to New York

Kriter, Kriter, Thompson, & Thompson / Monroe County, Mississippi, Chancery Court Record Index 1821-1900

Labrosse-Purcell / Researching Canadian Uncommon Sources

Lambert / A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries

Lehnhof & Kaiser / Zauberhafter Niederrhein, Eine Farbbildreise durch Landschaft und Geschichte

Lindberg / Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research

Lindsay / Mayflower Bastard

Linkman / The Victorians

Linkman / The Expert Guide to Dating Victorian Photographs

Loveland, Fremont & Loveland / The Genealogy of the Loveland Family in the United States of America from 1635 to 1892

Luthy / Amish in America

Mace / Collector's Guide to Early Photographs

Malka / Sephardic Genealogy

Mann / The Oxford Guide to Library Research

Markham Berczy Settlers Association / A Story of the Markham Berczy Settlers

Markham Historical Society / Markham, 1793-1900

Mautz / Biographies of Western Photographers, 1840-1900

McCulloch / Card Photographs

McCullough / Truman

McCutcheon / The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s

McWhorter / The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language

Melnyk / Family History 101

Melnyk / The Weekend Genealogist

Menk / Surnames

Merriman / Genealogy in Ontario

Merriman / United Empire Loyalists

Merriman / About Genealogical Standards of Evidence, A Guide for Genealogists

Meyerink / Printed Sources

Millennium Committee / Churches in the Diocese of Dunham

Minert / Deciphering Handwriting in German Documents

Mississippi Department of Transportation / Mississippi Road Atlas

Mokotoff, Sack & Sharon / Where Once We Walked

Moore / A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Austin of Kingstown, R.I.

Mullerowa & Zuchowska / Roman Catholic Parishes in the Polish People's Republic in 1984

Murff & Murff / The Descendants of Randolph S. Murff 1784-1955

National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution / Lineages Books of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution

National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution / DAR Patriot Index

National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution / Catalog of the Seimes Microfilm Collection

New England Historic Genealogical Society / New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Nugent / Cavaliers and Pioneers

O'Laughlin / Co. Kilkenny Ireland, Genealogy & Family History Notes

O'Laughlin / Book of Irish Families Great and Small

Olmstead / New Mexico Spanish & Mexican Colonial Censuses: 1790, 1823, and 1845

Olmstead / Spanish and Mexican Censuses of New Mexico 1750-1830

Palmquist & Kaibourn / Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide

Palmquist & Kaibourn / Pioneer Photographers of the Far West

Pearson / Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800

Pfeufer / New Mexico Baptisms: San Miguel de Socorro Church 1821-1853

Philbrick / Mayflower

Poles in Michigan / Poles in Michigan (vol. 1)

Poliniak / When Coal was King

Polking / Writing Family Histories and Memories

Polley & Thornton / Descendants of Richard Thornton

Pols / Family Photographs 1860-1945

Poucher, Terwilliger & Heidgerd / Old Gravestones of Ulster County

Powell / The Everything Family Tree Book

Proko, Kraska & Stickles / The Polish Community of Worcester (Images of America)

Putnam / Genealogy of David Putnam and His Descendants

Putnam / A History of the Putnam Family in England and America

Quillen / Secrets of Tracing Your Ancestors

Rael / Reading, Writing, and Researching for History

Rainer / Your Life as Story

Ramirez Alief et al. / New Mexico Censuses of 1833 and 1845

Reed / Itawamba: A History; Story of a County in Northeast Mississippi

Renick / Genealogy 101

Reynolds / Hudson and Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs

Riemer / The German Research Companion

Rineer / Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County

Risley / The Risley Family History

Romano / Per a Una Historia de la Girona Jueva

Rose / Courthouse Research for Family Historians

Rudisill, Sandweiss, & Palmquist / Photographers

Ryan / Irish Records

Sanborn & Sanborn / Vital Records of Hampton, N. H.: to the End of the Year 1900

Sanchez / San Miguel de Socorro, New Mexico: Marriage Records, 1821-1853

Schaefer / The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy

Schickel / The World of Carnegie Hall

Secall i Guell / Els Jueus de Valls

Severa / Dressed for the Photographer

Seversmith / Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut

Shanet / Philharmonic

Sherman, Sherman, & Wakefield / Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations: Vol. 13: William
White

Skulnick & Moorshead / 500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems

Skulnick & Moorshead / More Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems

Sledge / Monroe County Post Offices: 1827-1950

Smart / Index to Upper Canada Land Books

Smith & Weiser / Trinity Lutheran Church Records

Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Society / Pennsylvania Line

Spector / Encyclopedia of Jewish Life

Spence / Legacy

Sperry / Reading Early American Handwriting

Strangstad / A Graveyard Preservation Primer

Stratton / Applied Genealogy

Stratton / Plymouth Colony

Streidl / Häuserchronik der Stadt Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm

Streidl / Stadt Pfaffenhofen a.d. Ilm

Szucs / They Became Americans

Tademy / Cane River

Taylor / The Canadian Genealogical Sourcebook

Taylor / Scrapbooking Your Family History

Thiry & Dolader / El Libro Verde de Aragon

Thornton / New Hope Cemetery, Parham, Monroe County, Mississippi

Thornton / Index to Online Burials in Monroe County, Mississippi

Thornton & Thornton / The Thornton News

Tilden / History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886

Todd / First Alabama Cavalry USA

Torrey / New England Marriages: Prior to 1700

Treat / The Treat Family, A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt and Treat

Turner / 1850 Census, Itawamba County, Mississippi

Ueland / If You Want to Write- A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit

Valencia y Valdez et al. / Aqui se comienza

Vrabel / When in Boston

Wakefield / Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations: Vol. 18: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620

Warrilow / Tracing Your Ancestors in Bruce & Grey

Wheeler / Old Homes of Stonington

Wheeler / The History of Stonington, Connecticut

White / Guide to Quebec Catholic Parishes and Published Parish Marriage Records

White / White's Directory of Lincolnshire

Williams & Jaggar / Saving Stuff

Wood / Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations: Vol. 12: Francis Cooke

Woodtor / Finding A Place to Call Home

Wright / Lancaster County Church Records of the 18th Century

Yates / Publish Your Family History

Young & Miles / Itawamba County, Mississippi Families (1836-1986)

Zubatsky / Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories

The Denison Genealogy

German-English, English-German Dictionary

1864 Atlas of Lancaster County

The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Family Bible information included)

History of Wilsons Mills and the Magalloway Settlements

La Catalunya Jueva

Perpignan: L'histoire des Juifs dans la ville

La Via Judia en Sefarad

The Oxford Companion to United States History

United States Official Postal Guide

The New York Chronology

Deutsche Namenkunde

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language

Rand McNally Road Atlas

Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

Oscola Mills

100 Years in Brisbin and Houtzdale

75th Anniversary of Barnesboro

McCutchen Family Trace Newsletter

British Columbia War Memorials: An Index of Names

American Genealogist

Chicago Manual of Style

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

We also had a few non-specific resources mentioned such as a good history of the United States, an historical atlas of the United States, a good regional cultural history of whichever area in which you are researching, a cultural or social anthropology book, a current road atlas of the United States, and the Internet.

Call For Submissions! The topic for the next edition of the COG will be: I read it in the news! Newspapers can be a wonderful source of family history information. Share some aspect about your family history that you learned about in a newspaper. Articles, advertisements, obituaries, classified ads, photos... all are fair game if they appeared in a newspaper. What did you learn about your family from this information? Was the information accurate? How did you learn about this information... online search? Perusing old newspapers? A clipping saved by a relative? Fill us in on your family scoops... who in your family was in the news? The deadline for submissions is October 1st. The next edition will be hosted at the Creative Gene blog.



To All COG Participants: Please use a descriptive phrase in the title of any articles you plan to submit and/or write a brief description/introduction to your articles in the "comment" box of the blogcarnival submission form. This will give readers an idea of what you've written about and hopefully interest them in clicking on your link. Introductions for your articles will not be provided for you due to the volume of articles submitted. Thank you!