Echoing elissa and others, I too find Greenwood timeles, because he deals mostly with what to do with information after its found, rather than where to find it. In a similar strain on a more advance level is Eugene A. Stratton, Applied Genealogy (Ancestry, Inc., 1988). To use these works in the new digital world, all that's needed is to add to the traditonal lists of documentary repositories--libraries, archives and record offices--the new web repositories of digitized data, both those specific to genealogy and the general ones like google.com, which have been described in earlier replies. The most striking development of the last five years, and the one that's hardest keep current in a printed work, is the vast array of images of records being made available from the documentary repositories that hold the originals. How to use these sources is what Greenwood and Stratton tell us. The methodological principles have not changed. We must still compare information from various sources, and where there are disagreements, assess the relative credibility of each one, as those authors explain. Donn Donn Devine, CG CG and Certified Genealogist are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluation, and the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office.