New Genealogy Books & CDs

Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company publish hundreds of genealogy books and genealogy CD-ROMs every year, with new releases coming off press monthly. Featured below are some new and noteworthy titles. We urge you to check out this page at the start of every month to learn what's new from America's leading publishers of genealogy and family history!

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Pritchett Southside Virginia Genealogies [CD] Southside Virginia Genealogies is a compilation of several hundred family histories, each of which, typically, extends back to the colonial period in Southside Virginia. It includes nearly 400 autobiographical narratives of residents of Southside Virginia--the area of Virginia south of the James River, east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and north of the North Carolina border. Altogether Southside Virginia Genealogies contains more than 67,000 citations, including references to about 10,000 marriages, 9,000 wills, 10,000 deeds, 3,800 land patents and grants, and 5,000 census reports, with notes on more than 1,000 members of the Virginia legislature, 230 members of Congress, and hundreds of veterans of the Revolution and the Civil War. The full-name index alone contains more than 90,000 entries, and all this information is instantly accessible via the popular Adobe Acrobat Reader platform. System Requirements: Windows: Pentium-class processor; Microsoft Vista, Windows 98SE, ME, NT4 (Service Pack 5 or 6), 2000, or XP; 64 MB of RAM; and, 70 MB of available hard disk space. Macintosh Classic: PowerPC processor; Apple Mac OS 8.6, 9.0.4, 9.1, or OS X 10.0.4; 32 MB of RAM; and, 40 MB of available hard disk space. Macintosh OS X 10.2.2 or higher: PowerPC G3 or later processor; Apple Mac OS X 10.2.2, 10.2.4 or higher; 64 MB of RAM; and, 70 MB of available hard drive space. Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to access this CD. Price: $39.99

Coldham The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1776 [CD] With approximately 140,000 names, this CD contains the most comprehensive list ever published of the men, women, and children who emigrated from England to America between 1607 and 1776. Combining Peter Wilson Coldham's four-volume Complete Book of Emigrants and The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage and its Supplement, this CD contains virtually every reference to English emigrants that can be found in contemporary English records such as port books, shipping registers, apprenticeship lists, plantation records, Treasury and Chancery records, and records of forced transportation and exile. Price: $39.99

Coldham British Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1788 [CD] British Emigrants in Bondage is the definitive record of 48,000 felons carried from the jails of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland to help populate colonial America. For this CD, Peter Wilson Coldham, England's foremost authority on 17th- and 18th-century emigration to America, abstracted from every surviving record the names and histories of all those sentenced in England and Ireland to be transported to America for their alleged crimes. Also included on this CD are a separate section on transported Irish felons and runaways; a history of the British transportation system; an exhaustive account of the records used in this work; and a complete list of convict ships that sailed to America between 1671 and 1788. Price: $39.99

Immigrants to Pennsylvania [CD] Because of its unique immigration policy--a policy that encouraged Quaker and foreign immigration, in particular--Pennsylvania led the way in colonial America in the ethnic diversity of its early settlers, among whom we find English, Irish, and Dutch Quakers; German and Swiss Mennonites, Anabaptists, and Pietists; and Ulster Presbyterians, the Scotch-Irish frontiersmen of folklore and legend. This Family Archive CD provides information on the earliest settlers of the Keystone State. Based on books published by the Genealogical Publishing Company--deriving for the most part from ships' passenger lists, oaths of allegiance, records of indenture, and Quaker meeting records--this CD contains data on places of origin, dates of arrival, places of residence, ages, occupations, names of wives and children (with details of births, marriages, and deaths), and a host of other details derived from nine respected Pennsylvania reference works. This CD contains a single electronic name index of 200,000 entries which allows you to search all the volumes quickly and effortlessly. Price: $39.99

Scottish Immigrants to North America, 1600s-1800s. The Collected Works of David Dobson [CD] David Dobson has been trolling for the names of Scottish immigrants to North America for over twenty years. From original records and printed sources in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, he has amassed information on all known Scottish immigrants to North America, the majority of whom arrived in America from the earliest colonial times up to the Revolutionary War. Now, in this new Family Archive CD, which captures the page images of all his publications, the fruit of Mr. Dobson's research is available in a nano-second, and at a fraction of the cost of the original publications. Thanks to David Dobson's arduous labors in record offices and archives throughout Great Britain and America, we have information pertaining to the identity of approximately 75,000 of these early Scots immigrants. Price: $39.99

German and Swiss Settlers in America, 1700s-1800s [CD] Beginning with a trickle in the 1680s and growing into a virtual flood by the 1720s, immigrants from Germany's Rhineland area and the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland arrived in southeastern Pennsylvania by the thousands. This was the first "ethnic" migration to be officially documented--mainly in the form of ships' passenger lists, records of indenture, naturalization records, land records, tax lists, and sundry church records. Including the earliest passenger arrivals at Philadelphia in 1683, the Swiss and Rhineland arrivals at Philadelphia from 1727 onward, the Palatine immigrants in New York in 1710, the Salzburgers in Georgia in the 1730s, the Texas-Germans of the 1840s, and a host of other groups, as many as 300,000 German and Swiss immigrants and settlers have been identified in a score of books published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, all of which appear on this CD, united by a single electronic index. These are the most authoritative works on German and Swiss immigration, and include the famous Pennsylvania German Pioneers, the most complete collection of colonial passenger lists ever published, as well as several works devoted to Palatine immigration and the later emigration from the port of Bremen. Price: $39.99

Pennsylvania Vital Records, 1700s-1800s [CD] From The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Originally published in three volumes by GPC, this is a collection of every article about births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths that ever appeared in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine.The records date from 1701 to 1882 and cover all regions of Pennsylvania. Price: $39.99

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy [CD] This Family Archive CD contains all six volumes of William Wade Hinshaw's renowned Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Painstakingly developed from these monthly meeting records, Hinshaw's Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy is the magnum opus of Quaker genealogy. In its production, thousands of records were located and abstracted into a uniform and intelligible system of notation. The data gathered in these volumes of the Encyclopedia are arranged by meeting, then alphabetically by family name, and chronologically thereunder. Price: $59.99

Virkus The Compendium of American Genealogy [CD] The Genealogical Encyclopedia of the First Families of America This Family Archive CD contains images from the pages of all seven volumes of Virkus's Compendium of American Genealogy. The CompendiumCompendium spans at least eight or nine generations. Price: $49.99

Ricker The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut [CD] Based on the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records and Other Statistical Sources The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut, compiled and edited by Jacquelyn Ladd Ricker, consists of an alphabetized and edited list of vital statistics and other information bearing on the inhabitants of the towns of early Connecticut. This new CD is based extensively on the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, the chief resource in Connecticut genealogy. Containing 1.2 million records of births, marriages, and deaths from over 135 Connecticut towns, plus another 300,000 records from cemeteries, probate records, tax records, and family Bibles, the Barbour Collection is by far the largest collection of Connecticut town records ever assembled in one place. In addition to the celebrated Barbour Collection, this compilation also includes vital statistics from several Connecticut towns not included by Barbour, as well as information gleaned from lists of source records, Bibles, and church records held in the Connecticut State Library in Hartford. Also, it includes tombstone transcriptions from over 400 cemeteries which were originally published in The Connecticut Nutmegger, a publication of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists formerly edited by Jacquelyn Ricker. The search engine, based on the popular Adobe Acrobat Reader platform, allows you to search the records by name or keyword. Price: $59.99

Early Kentucky Settlers, 1700s-1800s [CD] You may not know it, but you could very well have Kentucky ancestors. Why? Kentucky was the great "feeder state" for countless ancestors who migrated westward from Virginia and the Middle Atlantic states from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. Our CD, Early Kentucky Settlers, contains the records of approximately 225,000 individuals who settled in or passed through Kentucky during this period. This unique collection of court, marriage, military, probate, and obituary records originally appeared in twelve Kentucky reference works published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Indexed. Price: $39.99

Virginia Colonial Records, 1600s-1700s [CD] p>This is the largest and most complete collection of Virginia colonial records ever assembled on CD-ROM, representing the combined efforts of several generations of talented and dedicated genealogists. Anyone with suspected colonial Virginia ancestry will almost certainly find something of interest here in the form of original source records, manuscripts, lineage records, or family histories. Price: $39.99

North Carolina Wills, 1665-1900 [CD] (Note: See System Requirements below before placing your order.) Originally published by GPC, the four titles reproduced on this Family Archive CD name approximately 135,000 individuals who are cited in wills, administrations, and inventories recorded in the probate records of North Carolina between 1665 and 1900. Probate records are among the very best genealogical sources because they provide "proof" of family relationships. The four titles contained herein may be accessed via the electronic index found on this CD Price: $39.99

Southern Genealogies [CD] This CD contains images of the pages of two classic works on Southern genealogy, namely, John Bennett Boddie's 23-volume Historical Southern Families and Zella Armstrong's 6-volume Notable Southern Families. The combined works deal with hundreds of Southern families and provide information on approximately l50,000 individuals. Price: $39.99

Colonial New Jersey Source Records, 1600s-1800s [CD] This Family Archive CD includes the records of approximately 330,000 individuals in a unique collection of church, court, marriage, land, military, and probate records. Made up of images of the pages of nine New Jersey reference works published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, and accessed by a single electronic index, this CD is the entry point for genealogical research in colonial New Jersey. Among the many valuable reference works included on this CD you"ll find the most frequently consulted book in New Jersey genealogy, William Nelson's New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800, as well as Nelson's invaluable Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey, 1664-1703. Price: $39.99

Immigrants to the New World, 1600s-1800s [CD] This CD contains images of the pages from five books originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Each book contains a complete collection of articles on ships' passenger lists which originally appeared in America's most prestigious genealogical periodicals. All articles identified by Harold Lancour in his celebrated Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists, 1538-1825 can be found on this CD. These books refer to approximately 58,000 individuals who arrived in New England or the Mid-Atlantic states between 1572 and 1878. Price: $39.99

Lineages of Hereditary Society Members, 1600s-1900s [CD] The best lineage books have been published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, and they are all now available on this CD, which also contains an electronic index to all 440,000 persons named! Like other CDs, it is designed to simplify genealogical research by combining the images of pages of selected volumes published by GPC with a single name index, which allows you to search all the volumes quickly and effortlessly. A search on a single name will turn up all references to that name found in any of the twenty-five volumes contained herein. Price: $39.99

Mills, ed. Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians Professional Genealogy is a manual by professionals for everyone serious about genealogy. For family historians who want to do their own study, reliably, it describes the standards. For hobbyists, attorneys, and medical scientists who seek professional researchers, it's a consumer guide that defines quality and facilitates choices. For librarians who struggle to help a whole new class of patrons, it provides a bridge to the methods, sources, and minutiae of "history, up-close and personal." For established genealogical professionals, it offers benchmarks by which they can advance their skills and places their businesses on sounder footing. And for all those who dream of turning a fascinating hobby into a successful career, Professional Genealogy details the preparation and the processes. Price: $59.95

Punch Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853 Despite the flow of Irish through Atlantic Canada, the early records of these immigrants are fewer and less informative than those of New England and New York from the same period. Erinâ€™s Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761â€“1853 goes a long way toward rectifying this problem. Author Terrence M. Punch has combed through a wide-ranging and disparate group of sourcesâ€”including newspaper articles and advertisements, local government documents and census records, church records, burial records, land records, military records, passenger lists, and moreâ€”to identify as many of these pioneers as possible and disclose where they came from in the Old Country. These sources often contain details that cannot be found in Irish records, where few census returns survived from before 1901, and where Catholic records began a generation or more after their counterparts in Atlantic Canada. Erinâ€™s Sons not only sheds light on many of the Irish immigrants who resided in Atlantic Canada between 1761 and 1853 but also provides an invaluable tool for U.S. researchers, since many New England Irish families can trace their ancestry through Atlantic Canada. For easy reference, a Surname Index and Ship Index are included. Price: $30.00

Punch Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853. Volume II The 2nd volume in this unique immigration series Volume II of Erin's Sons covers the same time period as its predecessor and the same geographic area--the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia--and it lists an additional 7,000 Irish arrivals in Atlantic Canada before 1853. What is remarkable about this second volume is the rich variety of information derived from hard-to-find sources such as church records of marriages and burials, cemetery records, headstone inscriptions, military description books, newspapers, poor house records, and passenger lists. Price: $30.00

Bentley County Courthouse Book Third Edition The County Courthouse Book is a concise guide to county courthouses and courthouse records. It is an important book because the genealogical researcher needs a reliable guide to American county courthouses, the main repositories of county records. Now in its third edition, this is the first edition to provide websites and e-mail addresses. Besides its obvious genealogical uses, the County Courthouse Book can also be used for land title searches, legal investigations, questions of property rights and inheritance, and indeed personal searches and investigations of all kinds. But it is the genealogist who stands to benefit most from the book because it offers a concise guide to the county courthouses and courthouse records which are the main focus of his research. Price: $49.95

Bentley The Genealogist's Address Book Sixth Edition The Genealogistâ€™s Address Book is the answer to the perennial question, â€œWhatâ€™s out there in the world of genealogy?â€ What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentleyâ€™s Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogistâ€™s Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups. Price: $69.95

Kemp International Vital Records Handbook. 5th Edition At one time or another all of us need copies of birth, marriage, or death certificates for driver's licenses, passports, jobs, social security, family history research, or for simple proof of identify. But the requirements and fees needed to obtain copies of vital records vary from state to state and from country to country, often requiring a time-wasting exchange of correspondence before the appropriate forms can be obtained. The International Vital Records Handbook puts an end to all that, as it offers complete, up-to-date information on how and where to request vital records. It also includes copies of the application forms, where available, thus simplifying and speeding up the process by which vital records are obtained. This new 5th edition of the International Vital Records Handbook contains the latest forms and information for each of the fifty states and also furnishes details about records that were created prior to statewide vital records registration. In addition, it identifies vital records collections, online databases, and institutions of interest to genealogy researchers. Then, in alphabetical sequence, it covers the other countries of the world, giving, where available, the current application forms and instructions, as well as the key addresses of repositories or embassies that might help you obtain copies of vital records. A number of searchable, free databases containing vital records are now available online, and many of these too have been noted in this book, as have specific repositories containing vital records collections that are accessible by genealogists. Price: $49.95