Modeled on our other popular Genealogist’s Handbooks, this is the first essential guide to finding your ancestors from mainland Portugal, the Azores, and Madeira.

Advances in DNA research over the last decades have had huge implications for the field of genealogy. By testing your DNA and comparing the results to a database of other individuals, you can better understand your origins, confirm lines of descent, test hypotheses, and connect with distant relatives. When it comes to studying your own DNA, understanding your options and test results are crucial.

This guide is designed to help you through the challenging process of locating your African American ancestors. It provides tips for getting started, summarizes the various documents and records you should consult, and shows you how to read the elements of a slave schedule. This helpful guide also features a chart showing where you can locate the different types of records described.

The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.

By Meaghan E. H. Siekman, Ph.D.

This updated edition provides genealogists with the latest tools for locating New York State probate records from the past 350 years. A user friendly design, inclusion of online sources, appendixes, and maps help researchers easily navigate this important group of records.

By Gordon L. Remington
Published: January 2011

In Genealogist’s Handbook for Irish Research, American Ancestors Irish genealogy experts Marie E. Daly and Judith Lucey offer tips for navigating the sometimes challenging course of finding Irish ancestors. Using real-life examples and offering many illustrations of records and techniques, they take a step-by-step approach to using American records to trace Irish ancestors in this country, with the goal of finding the place of origin. They then explain how to use Irish records to learn even more.