Continuing Resources
Genealogical & local history books in print. General reference & world resources volume.
Publication Information
Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1997-
Physical Description
v. ; 22 cm.
Summary
Includes such subjects as adoption, orphans, and heredity; Bible records; biographies and diaries; birth/baptism records (on a nationwide basis); cemetery, burial and death records; census records; church records; Colonial and early American records; genealogical computer programs; courthouse records; general publications of the Church of Jesus of Latter-Day Saints' family history library; genealogy for children and young adults; heraldry; history, social history, and folklore; humor; British, Canadian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern European, English, European, French, German, German-Russian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian,Russian, Scottish,Swiss, and U.S. immigration, emigration and migration records; land records; library, archival, and other institutional records; lineage and hereditary societies/ lineaage records; Loyalists; maps,atlases, and gazetteers; marriage records and laws (on a nationwide basis); Mayflower and Pilgrim records.
Includes military records for Bacon's Rebellion, Civil War, colonial wars, forts and posts, French and Indian War, frontier wars/Indian wars, King Philip's War, Mexican War, navy, pension records, Revolutionary War, Spanish-American War, and the War of 1812; naturalization records; passenger lists, ships, and ship arrival records; probate records; records for such religious and ethnic groups as Acadian/Cajun, African American, Amish, Anabaptist,Asian American, Baptist, Belgian, British, Catholic, Chinese, Church of the Brethren, Congregationalist, Czech and Slovak, Dutch, English, Episcopal, Estonian/Latvian, French/French Canadian, German, Hispanic, Huguenot, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jewish, Lutheran, Melungeon, Mennonite, Methodist, Moravian, Mormon, Native American/Indian, Palatine, Polish, Presbyterian, Protestant, Puritan, Quaker, Scandinavian, Schwenkfelders, Scots-Irish, Scottish, Spanish, Swiss, and Welsh.
Includes world resources for such countries as: Australia; Austria; Barbados; Bermuda; Canada; China; Cuba; Curaçao; Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia; Denmark; Eastern Europe; Estonia/Ethnic Estonian; Europe; Finland; France; Germany; Great Britain---England,Scotland, Wales; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Japan; Korea; Latin America; Lithuania; Mexico; The Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Philippines; Poland; Russia; Scotland; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; and the West Indies.
Notes
Vols. for 5th ed. [1997]- compiled and edited by Marian Hoffman.
Companion publication to: Genealogical & local history books in print. Family history volume; and: Genealogical & local history books in print. U.S. sources & resources volume.