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Genealogy Resources: In Our Collection: In the Stacks

Items only located in the Circulating Collection

There are helpful works on genealogy which do not appear in any of our non-circulating collections. A few are listed below.

The genealogist's handbook : modern methods for researching family history / Raymond S. Wright, III.

Genealogy online : researching your roots / Elizabeth Powell Crowe.

Write it right : a manual for writing family histories and genealogies / by Donald R. Barnes and Richard S. Lackey ; introduction by John Frederick Dorman.

A student's guide to African American genealogy / by Anne E. Johnson and Adam Merton Cooper.

Bonded passengers to America / by Peter Wilson Coldham.

Government Documents

Being a selective Federal Depository Library, Scarborough Library has paper copies of government pamphlets that may be of interest to researchers, historians and genealogists. Below are a few titles from our catalog. Almost all paper government documents are in their own section, now outside Rm 310 (the West Virginia Archive), arranged in SuDoc order (according to publishing agency and government department.)

Using civilian records for genealogical research in the National Archives Washington, DC, area / National Archives and Records Administration.

Black family research : records of post-Civil War federal agencies at the National Archives / compiled by Reginald Washington.

My history is America's history : 15 things you can do to save America's stories / a millennium project of The National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with The White House Millennium Council.