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Edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills, the groundbreaking Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers & Librarians (ProGen) addressed not just genealogy sources but also strategies and analytical skills, best practices and standards for historical research, and how to conduct a genealogical business. It remains a go-to manual for genealogists.

Ann Lainhart’s inventory of state census records is the first comprehensive list of state census records ever published.

State by state, year by year, often county by county and district by district, she shows the researcher what is available in state census records, when it is available, and what one might expect to find in the way of data.

Lainhart has removed one of the last uncharted territories in American genealogy.

What's in a name? Everything You Wanted to Know

Guide to Naturalization Records in the United States