Genealogy and Family History: Print Books

Information on genealogy may be found under these Subject Headings:

• African Americans - Genealogy
• American Loyalists Massachusetts
• China - Genealogy
• Europe Genealogy
• European Americans Genealogy
• Genealogy
• Genealogy - Bibliography
• Genealogy - Computer network resources
• Genealogy - Fiction
• Genealogy - Methodology
• Genealogy - Portugal - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Genealogy - Research
• Genealogy - Spain - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Great Britain - Genealogy
• Heraldry
• Herkimer County (N.Y.) Genealogy
• Highlands (Scotland) - Genealogy
• Ireland - Genealogy
• Jews - Genealogy
• Latin America - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Names, Personal
• Nevada - Genealogy
• Normandy (France ) - Genealogy
• Norway Genealogy
• Presidents - United States - Genealogy
• Registers of births
• Scotland - Genealogy
• Swedish Americans - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• United States - Genealogy
• United States - Genealogy - Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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:

• 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
• 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 .P48 The genealogist's encyclopedia
• CS 14 .F58 2008 The dead horse investigation: forensic photo analysis for everyone 
• CS 14 .F58 2013 Forensic Genealogy
• Ref CS 16 .B47 Family history: a bibliography of bibliographies
• CS 16 .M686 2014 Advanced genealogy research techniques
• 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 .M65 2016 Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: 2016-2017 ed.
• CS 21 .R58 Finding our fathers: a guidebook to Jewish genealogy
• 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 .G73 1990 The Researcher's Guide to American genealogy
• CS 47 .G79 2017 The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy (4th ed.)
• CS 47 .T733 Tracing your roots
• 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 .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 .C484 1991 Index to U.S. Invalid Pension Records 1801-1815
• CS 69 .R59 2009 Ancestors of American Presidents
• CS 82 .B389 2000 In Search of your Canadian Roots
• CS 222 .C36 2000 Guide to Cuban Genealogical Research: Records and Sources
• CS 261 .B3 L36 2006 Tracing Ancestors in Barbados: A Pracitcal Guide
• 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 .G74 2012 Tracing your Irish Ancestors: the complete guide
• CS 614 .B45 2014 The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide
• CS 922 .C57 2004 Your Swedish Roots: a step by step handbook 
• CS 943 .R97 1997 Finding your Hispanic roots
• 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 99 .C5 J63 1987 Cherokee by Blood: Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancesetry in the U.S. Court of Claims 1906-1910
• E 159 .Y35 2008 The American Resting Place
• E 184 .P7 A419 2016 The family tree: Polish, Czech & Slovak genealogy guide: how to trace your family tree in Eastern Europe
• E 184 .S2 F6 2002 A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States
• E 184 .P7 A419 2016 The Family Tree Polish, Czech & Slovak Genealogy Guide
• E 184 .S3 D635 1991 Scottish-American Court Records: 1733-1783
• E 184 .G3 M644 2016 German Census Records: 1816-1916
• 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
• E255 .U53 1991 The Pension List of 1820
• E277 .J77 2012 The Loyalists of Massachusetts: Their Memorials, Petitions, and Claims
• E 281 .D17 2000 American Prisoners of the Revolution
• 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
• F63 .R67 1990 Mayflower Marriages
• F63 .R678 1992 Mayflower births and deaths (2 vol set)
• 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 131 .M947 2000 Prominent families of New Jersey (2 vol set)
• F 148 .P48 2015 Pennsylvania Vital Records (3 vol set)
• 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 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 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 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 435 .B34 Obituaries and Marriage Notices from the Tennessee Baptist: 1844-1862
• 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 840 .F47 1985  Nevada state cemeteries (in Nevada Collection)
• F 1447 .T44 2017 They came to Belize: 1750-1810
• 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 243 .K4 J5 2011 Kentucky Land Records: 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
• QH 445.2 .R88 2017 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
• 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 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