Genealogical How-To’s
A Selected List of Books Available at Maine State Library

Best, Laura. Genealogy for the First Time: Research Your Family History. New York: Sterling Pub. Co., c2003.
  Call No.: 929.1 B561g 2003

Crandall, Ruth. Shaking Your Family Tree: a Basic Guide to Tracing Your Family’s Genealogy. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.
  Call No.: 929.1 C891c 2001

Croom, Emily Anne. The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research. Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, c2000.
  Call No.: 929.1 C948s 2000

500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems. Toronto: Moors- 
head Magazines, 2003.
  Call No.: 929.1072 F565 2003

Galford, Ellen. The Genealogy Handbook: the Complete Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree. Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader’s Digest, c2001.
  Call No.: 929.1 G155g 2001

Morgan, George G. How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy. New York: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, c2004. 
  Call No.: 929.1 M848h 2004

Quillen, W. Daniel. Secrets of Tracing Your Ancestors. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Press, c2003.
  Call No.: 929.1 Q6 2003

Renick, Barbara. Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family’s History and Heritage. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, c2003.
  Call No.: 929.1 R413g 2003

Sperry, Kip. Reading Early American Handwriting. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, c1998.
  Call No.: 929 S751r 1998

Stockwell, Foster. A Sourcebook for Genealogical Research: Resources Alphabetically by Type and Location. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c2004.
  Call No.: 929.1072 S866s 2004

Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, eds. The Source: a Guidebook of American Genealogy. 3rd ed. Provo, UT : Ancestry, 2006. 
  Call No.: 929 S724 2006