Sign up for Genealogy Pointers »

The Handybook for Genealogists is THE best-selling book in American genealogy. Since 1947 the first ten editions of this valuable research aid have been purchased by over a million people!

The new 11th edition integrates the winning formula of the previous editions with a number of important new features.

What’s New in the 11th Edition

• Updated county-by-county data, including information about vital records, repositories, and jurisdictions.
• Updated descriptions of the major record collections available in each state, and addresses that help you go straight to the source.
• Updated Internet and mailing addresses for societies, archives, and libraries in all 50 states.
• Updated bibliography of books for each state
• A CD (for PC/Mac). The complete book is word searchable and maps can be downloaded and printed. (Note: You can also purchase The Handybook without the accompanying CD.)

Standard Features

• Full-color maps of each state show ever county in the U.S. Map coordinates help you locate the county you’re looking for.
• A tracker for every county shows how boundaries have changed over the years. Your ancestor may have lived in several different counties without ever moving. This feature will save you hours of research.
• Migration trail maps give detailed descriptions of the paths your ancestors traveled.
• Histories for each state help you understand how settlements, wars, territory, and statehood affected their creation.
• Maps, county histories, addresses of record repositories, website addresses, and lists of records are completely up to date.

The genius of The Handybook is its capacity to provide the researcher with at-a-glance genealogical guidance for every county in the U.S. At the heart of each state chapter is an alphabetically arranged table of counties keyed to a corresponding state map. For each county, the table furnishes a map index number, the date of the county’s creation, the name of the parent county or territory from which it was created, and the address and phone number for the appropriate county court.

Everybody’s favorite genealogical reference book, the new 11th edition of The Handybook is an essential addition to your reference shelf, whether you own a previous edition or not!