Which ones are my favorites?
Randy’s suggestion for tonight was to take a photo of my genealogy books and post. I just cleaned out a bunch of books, and realize taking these photos, that I still have quite a few favorites. Mostly you can see the titles in the photos but here’s a few to mention:
General genealogy books. On the left is Overland in 1846 by Morgan detailing the wagon trains to Oregon. One of my family, Rice Dunbar captained a train. The orange one is The Genealogist's Google Toolbox by Lisa Louise Cooke - so helpful. Several books by Emily Croom. To the right of them are two books for writing (what else?) books: Publish Your Family History by Dina C. Carson and Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. This was super helpful, it's a way to document sources with parenthesis instead of little numbers. So much easier.
I love any books by W. Daniel Quillen are good resources. Of German Ways by Rippley is a very old book my husband bought about German traditions. (In the background are posters of my presentations.)
Lots of resources about countries Germany, France (the blue book French Genealogy From Afar by Anne Morddel) and Poland. The green book with the tiny wording is the book I wrote about my husband's family, The Ambellans from New York including Warren Spahn. The purplish book next to it is about Oberhoffen-sur-Moder, the town my husband's family came from. The horizontal books to the right are a recent French/English dictionary, a very old French dictionary (helps with archaic words) and a Dutch/English dictionary. You can see the orange German-English Genealogical Dictionary and another Ernest Thode book in the middle.
This is when I get into the details of my Luxembourg and Belgian histories. They are written in French. The book on the left is a children's story book in French.
Okay, if you want to know anything that was indexed by the Henry County, IL Genealogical Society, I have it! Eighteen books on births, marriages, deaths, cemeteries, wills, and naturalizations. I was fortunate that a cousin who co-researched our Hiram R. Dunbar with me in the 1990's, sent them, for which I am extremely grateful.
This was a very fun exercise! Hmmm...exercise, time to take my daily walk which is one of the few pleasures we are allowed to do in Illinois. (I am in agreement.) Stay safe everyone!
I've never seen W. Daniel Quillen's books. They look interesting.
ReplyDeleteYou have an interesting genealogy bookshelf. Most of those books I don't recognize, but look to be good resources for specific types of research.
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