http://www.genealogical.com/onlinebook.asp?afid= The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy Arguably the best book ever written on American genealogy, it is the text of choice in colleges and universities or wherever courses in American genealogy are taught. Of the dozens of textbooks, manuals, and how-to books that have appeared over the past twenty-five years, it is the one book that is consistently praised for setting a standard of excellence. Teressa Lenkey