Genealogy and Family History: Print Books

Information on genealogy may be found under these Subject Headings:

• African Americans - Genealogy
• American Loyalists Massachusetts
• American Revolution (1775-1783)
• Archives
• Barbados - Genealogy
• Belize - Genealogy
• Bermuda Islands - Genealogy
• Bounties - Military - United States
• Cajuns
• Canada - Genealogy
• Cap Cod (Mass.) - Genealogy
• Cherokee Indians - Genealogy
• China - Genealogy
• Clans
• Cuba - Genealogy
• Dissenters, Religious - Great Britain - Genealogy
• England - Genealogy
• English Language - Etymology - Names
• Europe Genealogy
• European Americans Genealogy
• Families
• Family Archives
• Family History
• Genealogy
• Genealogy - Bibliography
• Genealogy - Computer network resources
• Genealogy - Fiction
• Genealogy - Methodology
• Genealogy - Portugal - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Genealogy - Problems, exercises, etc.
• Genealogy - Research
• Genealogy - Spain - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Genealogy - Textbooks
• Genetic Genealogy
• Georgia - Genealogy
• Georgia - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers
• German Americans - Genealogy
• Germany - Genealogy
• Great Britain - Genealogy
• Hawaii - Genealogy
• Heraldry
• Herkimer County (N.Y.) Genealogy
• Highlands (Scotland) - Genealogy
• Hispanic Americans - Genealogy
• Huguenots - Genealogy
• Ireland - Genealogy
• Irish Americans - Genealogy
• Jews - Genealogy
• Land Grants
• Land Owners
• Land Tenure
• Latin America - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Massachusetts - Genealogy
• Mayflower (ship)
• Military Pensions
• Names, Personal
• Nevada - Genealogy
• New England - Genealogy
• New Hampshire - Genealogy
• Normandy (France ) - Genealogy
• Norway - Genealogy
• Norwegian Americans
• Ohio - Genealogy
• Orphan Trains
• Personal Archives
• Photographs in genealogy
• Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
• Poll Tax
• Portugal - Genealogy
• Presidents - United States - Genealogy
• Puritans
• Quakers - Genealogy
• Registers of births
• Romanian Americans - Genealogy
• Salvation Army - United States - History - 19th Century
• Scotland - Genealogy
• Soldiers - Confederate States of America - Genealogy
• Spain - Genealogy
• Sweden - Genealogy
• Swedish Americans - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Tartans
• Taxation - Research - Methodology
• Tennessee - Genealogy
• Texas - Genealogy
• United States - Genealogy
• United States - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• United States - History - Revolution, 1775 - 1783 - Registers of the Dead
• United States - History - War of 1812 - Registers
• Virginia - Genealogy
• Women - United States - Genealogy
• World War, 1914-1918 - Military Records

Here is a sample book from the TMCC Library Catalog.

Library Reference Collection (location: 2nd floor)

Reference books are condensed, authoritative books such as encyclopedias.  Many reference books contain primary sources and original documents. 

General Collection  (location: 2nd floor)

Very large and very good collection, shelved mainly on the second floor of the Main Library.  Ask the Reference Librarians for assistance.  These books are allowed to leave the library.

Nevada Collection (location: 2nd floor)

A specialized collection on the history and people of Nevada.

Online Books in the Book and Video Catalog

These books are best searched through the direct link to the eBrary database.

Information on the subject of genealogy is most likely to be found in these call number areas:

• AM 145 .W55 2005 Saving Stuff: How to Care for and Preserve Your Collectibles
• BX 7791 A1 P37 2014 Thee & Me: a Beginner's Guide to Early Quaker Records
• BX 9454.2 .R4 2000 Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the United States, South Africa and Canada
• BX 9715 .M87 1994 Origins of the Salvation Army
• BX 9716 .M32 1995 Marching to Glory: the History of the Salvation Army in the United States, 1880-1992
• BX 9716 .T35 2001 Hallelujah Lads & Lasses: remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930
• BX 9718 .N7 W56 2000 Red Hot and Righteous: the Urban Religion of the Salvation Army
• BX 9743 .B7 G74 2005 The Life and Ministry of William Booth: Founder of the Salvation Army
• CD 976 .G64 2017 Create a Family Museum and Save Your History
• CD 976 .M39 2012 How to Archive Family Keepsakes
• CD 3460 .A35 Pioneer Families of the Oregon Territory 1850
• CR 21 .D4 The heraldic imagination
• CR 21 .F7 1976 The art of heraldry
• CR 21 .N482 1981 A guide to heraldry
• CR 21 .O44 1987 Introduction to heraldry
• CR 492 .W66 1988 The Oxford guide to heraldry
• CR 1612 .P5 1965 Heraldry, ancestry and titles; questions and answers
• CS 9 .H57 B45 Historical Newspapers Cheat Sheet
• CS 9 .H57 F36 Historical Maps Cheat Sheet
• CS 9 .I44 H33 Immigration Records Cheat Sheet
• CS 9 .P48 The genealogist's encyclopedia
• CS 14 .F58 2008 The dead horse investigation: forensic photo analysis for everyone 
• CS 14 .F58 2013 Forensic Genealogy
• CS 14 .J67 2017 Mastering Genealogical Documentation
• CS 14 .M34 2000 Complete Idiot's Guide to Online Genealogy
• CS 14 .P425 2011 Beyond the Basics: A Guide for Advanced Users of Family Tree Maker 2012
• CS 14 .P426 2010 The Companion Guide to Family Tree Maker 2011
• CS 14 .P427 2013 The Companion Guide to Family Tree Maker
• CS 14 .R57 2011 Family Tree Problem Solver
• Ref CS 16 .B47 Family history: a bibliography of bibliographies
• CS 16 .B53 2016 Writing Your Family History: A Guide for Family Historians
• CS 16 .E43 2018 Research Like a Pro, A Genealogist's Guide
• CS 16 .M69 2004 How to do everything with your genealogy
• CS 16 .M69 2012 How to do everything with your genealogy (3rd ed.)
• CS 16 .M686 2014 Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques
• CS 21 .B48 2016 The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and genetic genealogy
• CS 21 .B55 Black Genealogy
• CS 21 .D54 L48 Digitize Your Genealogy Cheat Sheet
• CS 21 .M65 2016 Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: 2016-2017 ed.
• CS 21 .R58 Finding our fathers: a guidebook to Jewish genealogy
• CS 21 .W456 2018  The Adoptee's Guide to DNA Testing
• CS 21.5 H4649 2017 Unofficial Ancestry.com workbook: A How To Manual for Tracing Your Family Tree
• CS 21.5 H4649 2018 Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com: How to Find Your Family History on the #1 Genealogy Website
• Ref CS 21.5 .P69 2011 The everything guide to online genealogy: use the web to trace your roots, share your history, and create a family tree
• CS 47 .C75 1994 The Genealogist's Companion & Sourcebook
• CS 47 .C76 2001 Unpuzzling Your Past
• CS 47 .G73 1990 The Researcher's Guide to American genealogy
• CS 47 .G79 2017 The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy (4th ed.)
• CS 47 .L36 H33 Land Deeds Cheat Sheet
• CS 47 .T733 Tracing your roots
• CS 49 .C35 1992 Scotch-Irish Family Research Made Simple
• CS 49 .K64  The grand-families of America, 1776-1976: patterns of origin, settlement, and growth of families with predominant surnames: a Bicentennial reference
• CS 49 .M333 Scotland: MacAlister Clann Alasdair
• CS 49 .R66 2004 Courthouse research for family historians
• CS 49 .R665 2011 Military Bounty Land, 1776-1855
• CS 49 .S322 1999 Hidden half of the family: a sourcebook for women's genealogy
• CS 68 .C48 2003 American Militia in the Frontier Wars, 1790-1796
• CS 68 .C484 1991 Index to U.S. Invalid Pension Records 1801-1815
• CS 69 .R59 2009 Ancestors of American Presidents
• CS 69 .S36 1980 Genealgoical Data from the Pennsylvania Chronicle 1767-1774
• CS 71 .D41 1929 Abstracts of English Records Principally Devonshire and Essex
• CS 71 .M163 1889 A History of the Clan MacLean From its First Settlement at Duard Castle
• CS 82 .B389 2000 In Search of your Canadian Roots
• CS 88 M.2896 P86 2011 Some Early Scots in Maritime Canada
• CS 88 .Y33 B76 2011 Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genealogies 
• CS 222 .C36 2000 Guide to Cuban Genealogical Research: Records and Sources
• CS 261 .B3 L36 2006 Tracing Ancestors in Barbados: A Practical Guide
• CS 415 .R387 2017 Tracing Your Church of England Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians
• CS 432 .D56 R39 2017 Tracing your Nonconformists Ancestors
• CS 403 .D65 2013 The Family Tree Guidebook to Europe: Your essential Guide to Trace Your Genealogy in Europe
• CS 432 .H8 C47 2012 Tracing your Huguenot Ancestors: a Guide for Family historians
• CS 432 .N7 L69 1975 The origins of some Anglo-Norman families
• CS 435 .S37 Tennessee Genealogical Research
• CS 464 .C67 1993 Tracing your Scottish ancestry
• CS 483 .F32 1981 Irish and Scotch Irish Ancestral Research
• CS 483 .G74 2012 Tracing your Irish Ancestors: the complete guide
• CS 483 .S26 2017 Family Tree Irish Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Ancestors in Ireland
• CS 614 .B45 2014 The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide
• CS 614 .B453 German Genealogy Websites Cheat Sheet
• CS 614 .H34 v. 1 The Atlantic Bridge to Germany, Vol. I
• CS 614 .H34 v. 2, The Atlantic Bridge to Germany, Vol. II
• CS 614 .H34 v. 3 The Atlantic Bridget to Germany, Vol. III
• CS 614 .H34 v. 4 The Atlantic Bridge to Germany, Vol. IV
• CS 922 .C57 2004 Your Swedish Roots: a step by step handbook 
• CS 943 .R97 1997 Finding your Hispanic roots
• CS 1080 .W67 1972 Studies in Asian Genealogy
• CS 2303 .L35 Our names, where they came from and what they mean
• Ref CS 2305 .R65 1994 Cassell Dictionary of Proper Names
• Ref CS 2367 .D83 1984 Facts on File Dictionary of First Names
• CS 2367 .D84 First Names First
• Ref CS 2385 .H27 1988 Dictionary of Surnames
• CS 2385 K46 2012 Surnames Handbook
• CS 2415 .M235 1972 Irish Families: their names, arms and Origins
• CS 2415 .M24 1985 Surnames of Ireland
• CS 2435 .B55 Surnames of Scotland: their origin, meaning and history
• CS 2465 .F45 1967 Surnames as a science
• CS 2487 .H66 1983 Family Names: the origins, meaning, mutations and history of more than 2,800 American names
• CS 2487 .J66 1995 German American Names
• CS 2501 .B35 1969 Family Names and their story
• CS 2505 .R39 2005 Dictionary of English Surnames
• CS 2505 .R43 2015 Surnames, DNA, and family history
• CS 2715 .F8 1987 Our Italian Surnames
• CS 2745 .P55 1996 Hispanic Surnames and family history
• CS 2970 .S35 1989 Islamic Names
• CS 2990 .C366 2000 In search of your Asian Roots
• Ref CS 2990 .L68 1998/2008 Chinese American Names: tradition and transition
• CS 3010 .G67 1992 Jewish Personal Names
• CS 3010 .K28 1996 Dictionary of Jewish Names and their history
• DA 880 .H6 C65 1989 Collins Guide to Scots Kith & Kin: a Guide to the Clans & Surnames of Scotland
• DA 880 .H76 M37 1992 Scottish Clan and Family Names: Their Arms, Origins and Tartans
• DA 880 .H76 W38 1994 Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia
• DS 135 .E5 W467 2014 Tracing your Jewish Ancestors: a Guide for Family Historians
• DU 624 .M67 2015 Handy Hawaii Genealogy Handbook
• D5 M55 2015 Evidence explanied: citing history sources from artifacts to cyperspace
• E 67 .B36 2003 The Winthrop Fleet of 1630
• E 85 .C72 2012 New England Captives Carried to Canada Between 1677 and 1760
• E 99 .C5 J63 1987 Cherokee by Blood: Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancesetry in the U.S. Court of Claims 1906-1910
• E 99 .C5 S73 2014 Starr Roll, 1894
• E99 .N36 American Indian Cheat Sheet
• E 159 .Y35 2008 The American Resting Place
• E 176.1 .B82 1975 Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America
• E 184 .F365 Italian Genealogy Cheat Sheet
• E 184 .G3 M644 2016 German Census Records: 1816-1916
• E 184 .I6 D44 2001 Irish Relatives and Friends: From "Information Wanted" ads in the Irish American, 1850-1871
• E 184. I6 S34 1999 Passengers from Ireland: Lists of Passengers Arriving at American Ports Between 1811 - 1817
• E 184 .J3 V3 2000 Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii 1850-1880
• E 184 .P3 P31 1980 Palatines to America
• E 184 .P7 A419 2016 The family tree: Polish, Czech & Slovak genealogy guide: how to trace your family tree in Eastern Europe
• E 184 .R8 W48 2002 Romanians in the United States and Canada: a Guide to Ancestry and Heritage Research
• E 184 .S2 F6 2002 A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States
• E 184 .S2 U4513 2010 Norwegians in America (3 vol. set)
• E 184 .S3 D63 2004 Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875
• E 184 .S3 D635 1991 Scottish-American Court Records: 1733-1783
• E 184.S3 E66 2018 The Family Tree Scottish Genealogy Guide
• E 184 .S9 F22 2007 Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies
• E 185.96 .G383 2007 Finding Oprah's Roots: Finding Your Own
• E 185.96 .S817 1986 Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies
• E 185.96 .S6514 2008 A genealogist's guide to discovering your African-American Ancestors
• E 186.99 .S5 A625 2012 National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861
• F 225 .G81 2008 Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666
• E 255 .A31 2011 Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama
• E 255 .P4 2004 Known Military Dead During the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
• E255 .U53 1991 The Pension List of 1820
• E 263 G.3 K65 2000 Georgia's Roster of the Revolution
• E277 .J77 2012 The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials, Petitions, and Claims
• E 281 .D17 2000 American Prisoners of the Revolution
• E 359.5.O2 R68 1999 Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812
• E 548 .O36 2006 Hispanic Confederates (3rd ed.)
• E 585 .A35 B58 1994 Black confederates in the U.S. Civil War: a compiled list of African-Americans who served the Confederacy
• E 612 .A5 018 2009 The U.S. Colored Troops at Andersonville Prison
• Ref F3 .A53 1995 The Great Migration Begins (3 vol. set)
• Ref F3 .A54 1999 The Great Migration 1634-1635 (7 vol. set)
• F 7 .E12 1992 Customs and Fashions in Old New England
• Ref F7 .G735 2017 The Great Migration Newsletter (vols. 1-25)
• F 33 .W72 1993 Inhabitants of New Hampshire, 1776
• F63 .R67 1990 Mayflower Marriages
• F63 .R678 1992 Mayflower births and deaths (2 vol set)
• Ref F 68 .A54 P55 2006 The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony, 1620-1633
• F 68 .B84 S53 1982 Pilgrim: a Biography of William Brewster
• F 72 .M7 1890 History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches
• F 74 .R28 E1 1874 Genealogical History of the Town of Reading, Massachusetts
• F 74 .S86 S43 1974 Stockbridge 1739-1974 
• F 106.D63 2002 Scots in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, 1635-1783
• F 127 .H5 B37 1986 Early Families of Herkimer County New York: Descendants of the Burnetsfield Palatines
• F 128.25 I57 1995 The New York Foundling Hospital: an index to its federal, state, and local census records
• F 148 .I83 1990 Pennsylvania Line: A Research Guide to Pennsylvania Genealogy and Local History
• F 131 .M947 2000 Prominent families of New Jersey (2 vol set)
• F 148 .P48 2015 Pennsylvania Vital Records (3 vol set)
• F 148 .P442 1983 Pennsylvania Line: A Research Guide to Pennsylvania Genealogy and Local History
• F 148 .S87 1982 Early Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages in Southeastern Pennsylvania 
• F 157 .W5 C53 1980 Surname Index to 52 Westmoreland County, PA Cemeteries, Vol. 1
• F 159 .E72 E7 1853 1853 City Directory Erie PA
• F 160 .G3 I74 2007 Pennsylvania German Marriages: Marriages and Marriage Evidence in Penn. German Churches
• F 160 .G3 S8 2009 Pennsylvania German pioneers: a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727-1808
• F 180 .B383 Maryland Marriages: 1778-1800
• F 185 .N48 1993 Maryland Revolutionary Records
• F 208 .S44 2005 In Search of Confederate Ancestors: the Guide
• F225 .G81 2008 Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666
• F225 .M125 2007 Virginia Immigrants and adventurers, 1607-1635
• F 225 .N842 2004 Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666
• F 277 .A2 P87 7500 Marriages from Ninety-Six and Abbeville District, S.C., 1774-1890
• F 277 .N6 Y6 1977 Abstracts of Old Ninety-Six and Abbeville District Wills and Bonds
• F 285 .A8893 2005 The Georgia Frontier (3 vol. set)
• F 325 .M33 1981 Marriage, Death and Legal Notices from Early Alabama Newspapers, 1819-1893
• F 350.5 .W35 2002 Pioneer Families of the Midwest
• F 380 .A2 B72 1996 The Founding of New Acadia
• F 385 .M84 Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846
• F 435 .B34 Obituaries and Marriage Notices from the Tennessee Baptist: 1844-1862
• F 435 .G748 2008 Earliest Tennessee Land Records  & Earliest Tennessee Land History
• F 435 .S57 1977 Early Tennessee Tax Lists
• F 435 .S58 1979 v. 1 19th Century Tennessee Church Records
• F 435 .S577 1984 Tennessee Mortality Schedules
• F 435 .T37 1978 Obituaries from Early Tennessee Newspapers 1794-1851
• F 443 .D2 L82 Marriage Record Book 1 January 2, 1789 - December 13, 1837 Davidson County, Tennessee
• F 443 .G35 W45 1982 Marriages of Gibson County, Tennessee 1824-1860
• F 450 .G46 Genealogies of Kentucky Families (3 vol set)
• F 450 .K455 Kentucky Marriage Records: from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
• F 497 .A7 D38 Ashland County, Ohio Cemeteries
• F 525 .D67 1983 Pioneer Ancestors of Members of the Society of Indiana Pioneers
• F 565 .S58 1969 Michigan Military Records: the D.A.R. of Michigan Historical Collections
• F 596.3 .P8 W37 2013 Land, As Far As The Eye Can See: Portuguese in the Old West
• F 840 .F47 1985  Nevada state cemeteries (in Nevada Collection)
• F 1447 .T44 2017 They came to Belize: 1750-1810
• F 1630.9 .M470 Bermuda Settlers of the 17th Century: Genealogical Notes from Bermuda
• Ref G 1201 .E27 F5 1998 Atlas of American Migration
• GN 289 .S94 2001 The Seven Daughters of Eve
• GN 290 G7 S95 2006 Saxons, Vikings and Celts: the genetic roots of Britain and Ireland
• GN 290 .U6 S95 2012 DNA USA: a genetic portrait of America
• Ref HA 217 .T46 1987 Map guide to the U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1920
• HB 1952 .D644 1997 Map guide to American migration routes, 1735-1815
• HD 194 .A6 1924 The Town Proprietors of the New England Colonies
• HD 211 .W4 S56 Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia
• HD 243 .K4 J5 2011 Kentucky Land Grants: Recorded in the State Land Office Frankfort, Kentucky 1782-1924 
• HJ 2362 G46 2007 The genealogist's guide to researching tax records
• HQ 513 .G53 1989 Marriage and family in the Middle Ages
• HV 8950 .U6 C65 2007 Emigrants in Chains
• HV 875 .U38 2015 The Ultimate Search Book
• HV 985 .O36 2001 Orphan Trains: the Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children he Saved and Failed
• HV 985 .R55 2005 Orphan Train Riders: a Brief History of the Orphan Train Era (1854-1929)
• HV 985 .R55 2006 Orphan Train Riders. Entrance Records from the American Female Guardian Society's Home for the Friendless in New York
• JV 6926 .A65 L44 2010 Angel Island: Immigration Gateway to America
• LB 2395 .S387 2015 How to Use Evernote for Genealogy: a Step by Step Guide
• QH 445.2 .R88 2017 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
• TR 147 .T39 2013 Family Photo Detective
• TR 465 .T35 P74 2010 Preserving Your Family Photographs: How to Care for Your Family Photographs
• UB 433 .B67 2011 Military Medals of the United States
• Z 1242 .D56 2009 Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era
• Z 1242 .H33 Civil War Genealogy Cheat Sheet
• Z 1309 .P37 1986 Nevada biographical and genealogical sketch index
• Z 5305 .U5 S73 The Vital Record Compendium 
• Z 6207 .E8 S29 1998 The great war: a guide to the service records of all the world's fighting men and volunteers
• Z 7164 .I3 L2 1963 A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists 1538-1825