Montrose FHC Book List

MONTROSE FAMILY HISTORY CENTER RESOURCES

ATLASES

Map Guide to American Migration Routes - William Dollarhide
Der Neue Grosse Shell Atlas
Philimon Atlas of Parish Registers –Cecil Humphrey Smith
Hammond Award World Atlas
Rand McNally Readers World Atlas
Atlas of American History
Rand McNally Atlas –Goode’s Edition
1920 Historical Atlas –American Series –William R. Shepard
This Land is Your Land - -Geographic Evaluation of U.S.—S. Swartz
A Genealogical & Historical Atlas of United States of America –E.K.Kirkham

AUSTRALIA

Dress and Insignia of the British Army in Australia & New Zealand 1770 – 1870
Sidney’s First Four Years
The Second Fleet – Britain’s Grim Convict Armada of 1790
How to trace Your Family Tree – A Janet Reakes Guide for Australia and New Zealand
Ships’ Deserters 1852- 1900 Jim Melton
The Founders of Australia Mollie Gillen
Tracing Your Family History in Australia – Nick Vine Hall

CANADA

• Elgin county, Ontario
• Early Ontario Settlers - Norman Crowder
• 1979 Phone Book - Haute, Yamaska, Quebec, Haut, Richelieu, Quebec
• Huron County, Ontario -  Cemeteries
• Land Records in Ontario Registry Offices -A. David & Jean McFall
• The McCabe List -Bruce S. Elliott
  
•  Links to Your Canadian Past , Tome 1 -Acadia & the Maritimes -Peter Gagne
  
•  Family Reseach in Waterloo and Wellington Counties (Ontario) Ryan Taylor
• Your Ancient Canadian Family Ties - Reginald L. Olivier
• Tracing Your Ancestors in Canada - Patricia Kennedy
  
• Court of Probate - Registers & Estate Files in the Archives of Ontario (1793- 1859) B. Zuefelt
• In Search of Your Canadian Roots - Angus Baxter
• The Canadian Genealogy Handbook - Eric Jonasson
• The Little Immigrants - Kenneth Bagnell
• Barnardo Children in Canada - Gail H. Corbett
• The Home Children - Phyllis Harrison
• Checklist of Parish Registers 1981 - Public Archives Canada
• Catalog of Census Returns 1666 - 1881
• Major Genealogical Record Sources for Canada - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
• List of Publications of the Public Archives of Canada
  
• Genealogical Research in Nova Scotia - Terrence M. Punch
  
• Erin's Son's - Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1751-1858 - Vol. 1,2 & 3 - Terrence M. Punch
  
• Genelaogists Handbook for Atlantic Canada Research - Terrence M. Punch
  
• The Old United Empire Loyalist List - Milton Rubincam
  
• Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867 - Leonard H. & Norma H. Smith
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COLORADO

• Curicanti Ranch - Donna M . Freeman
• Cabins and Clotheslines - Laura S. Clock
• The Encyclopedia of Colorado, Vol # 1 & 2 - Colorado Historical Society
• Colorado Resource Handbook
• Dedication of Montrose Stake Center
• Marriage Records of Mesa County 1883 - 1912
• Mesa Dwellers - Mesa County Genealogical Society
• A Century of Saints - Twilla Bud
• A History of Paonia Ward - Paonia Ward History Committee
• Land Entries Under Uncompahgre Valley Water Project 1891 - 1906
• Ghost Towns of the West - Lambert Florin
• Where Eagles Winter - Wilma C. Banktop
• First Governor, First Lady - Joyce B. Lehoe
• Smith Ranch - Donna M. Freeman
• 100 Years of Montrose - Donna M. Freeman
• Opportunities and Challenges - James Mahn & Harrison Stuart
• San Juan Silver - Arthur W. Monroe
• The Colorado Brand Book - E, D, Singleton
• 1963 City Directory - Montrose, Colorado
• Last Dollar Ranch, Hastings Mesa - Donna M, Freeman
• Grand County Historical Association Journals - 1981 - 1985
• This Was Estes Park - Rich Stouffer
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DAR

DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition Part 1 - A - F, Part 2 - G - O, Part 3 - P - Z
Colorado DAR Member & Ancestor Index 1981
DAR Library Catlog Vol 1 65 Volume
Surname Index to 65 Volumes of Colonial & Revolutionary Pedigrees - Crowther
The 1982 Supplement to the DAR Patriot Index

DICTIONARIES

• The Prestige Visual Dictionary of Signing
• Websters English/Hispanic Dictionary
• A Comprhensive Dictionary for Genealogists and Historians
• University of Chicago English / Spanish Dictionary
• Bulgarian Phrase Book
• Spanish Language Guide
• Tabalog Language Guide
• Russian for a Schilling
• Russian Grammer Simplified List
• Portuguese Conversation Simplified
• Websters New World Dictionary
• Websters Geographic Dictionary
• A to Z (Comprehensive Dictionary) for Genealogists and Historians
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EUROPE

Guide to the Genealogical Resources of Italy – Region of Sicily - George E. Ott
Handy Guide to Italian Genealogical Records - Phyllis Pastore and Floren Preece
Italian American Family Album –Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler
Italian Roots –John Philip Calletta
Polish Parish Records of the Roman Catholic Church – Gerald A. Ortell
Central European Genealogical Terminology – Jared H. Suess
Handy Guide to Austrian Genealogical Records – Dagmar Senekovic
Tracing Your Czech and Slovak Roots – Maralyn A. Wellauer
Handy Guide to Hungarian Genealogical Records – Jared H. Suess
Poland – A Historical Atlas – Iwo C. Pogonowski
Tracing Your Polish Roots –Maralyn a. Wellauer
Tracing Your Swiss Roots –Maralyn A. Wellauer
Cradled in Sweden –Carl Erick Johanson
Church Records of Denmark –Genealogical Society Series D. #7
The Military Levying Rolls of Denmark –Genealogical Society Series D # 9
Napoleon –Anthony Masters
Europe From Renaissance to Waterloo—Robert Ergang
Passport to Paradise –Morman Passenger Lists -1872-1877
In Search of European Roots –Angus Baxter
Foreign Language Ward Lists

Where Once We Walked "A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust" Gary Mokotoff

                        and SallyAnn Amdur Sack

"WOWW" Companion - a Guide to the Communities Surrounding Central & Eastern European Towns -                        Gary Mokotoff

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy -Vol 1 - sources in the US & Canada - Arthur Kurzweil &                            Miriam  Weiner

FAMILY HISTORIES

Descendants of Robert Rose (Ship Francis 1634) -Christine Rose
Family of Jacob & Hezekiah Adkins of Wayne County, West Virginia
A Bellows Genealogy 1806 1949 –James C. Martine
Family Memorials –Bradshaw Family –Antoinette B. Shattuck & John H. Bradshaw
Cox Heritage – Janet M. Damm
The Ancestry of Harvey Dunn –Judith M. H. Luedemann
Hesses Across America – Mary Whitney
Despain Log Cabin , Vol. 4, June 1970 –Wilford
The Barker Family Heritage Book – Beatrice Bayley
Jones Journeys – 1981-1984
A Noble Son, Spencer W. Kimball A Curious Combination of Cousins
A Lot of Cousins –Jewel C. Lott
Lovell, Our Pioneer Heritage –Rosa Vida Biscoff Black
Meek Genealogy –William Hastings Meek, Jr.
Miller Family Newsletter – includes Allen, Camsey, Fullbright Gladdens, Griffens
The Popejoy Family in American 1700- 1976 –Charles l. “Jack” Popejoy
The Parsons Family in England and America
The First Nothslein Family History 1750 – 1950
The John Payne Family in America of Charleston, South Carolina 1766- 1813 F.W. Payne
The Lineage of the Amos Ragan Family –Elizabeth H. Ragan
The Stanley Family of Quaker Friends of Ye Old Golden Times – James P. Bell

GERMANY

German – English Genealogical Dictionary – Ernest Thode
A Guide to German Parish Registers – Vol 1 Baden, Bavaria, Wuerttemberg – Johni Cerny
Research8ng the Germans form Russia – Michael M.. Miller
German Towns in Slovakia and Upper Hungary – Duncan B. Gardiner
Handy Tips to Your Genealogical Research in Germany
The German Researcher –Fay Dearden
The Atlantic Bridge to Germany –Vol V. –Charles M. Hall
Active German –Leamann Reader –Schultz Behrend
Finding Aids /Survey/ German –Ronald Smelser
German English Dictionary –Langenshceidts
The Alsace emigration Book –Vol1 –Cornelia Schrader Muggenthaler
German Immigrants 1847 – 1854 –Zimmerman & Wolfert
German Immigrants 1855-- 1862 –Zimmerman & Wolfert
German Immigrants -1863- 1867 –Zimmerman & Wolfert
German Immigrants – 1868 – 1871 –Zimmerman & Wolfert
The Wuertemberg Emigration Index Vol. 1 –Trudy Schenk
The Wuertemberg Emigration Index Vol. 6 –Ruth Froelke
Focus of German –Shaw, Winter, Shaw
A Guide to the Collection –Fort Hays State University
In Search of Your German Roots –Angus Baxter
Germany –Margaret Krug Paley
German American Names –George F. Jones

GREAT BRITAIN

In Search of the Forlorn Hope - A comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and their Records 1640- WWI vol 1, 2 and supplement
The Handy Book to English Genealogy –Rachael Mellen
Pre-1841 Census & Population Listings in the British Isles –Colin R. Chapman
The Ancient Parish Registers of England and Wales –Arthur Meredith Burke
A Guide to ANCESTRAL Research –London—Phillip B. Dunn
Tracing Ancestors in Northamptonshire –Colin R. Chapman
Beginning Your Family History in Great Britain—George Pelling
Record Repositories in Great Britain
How to Trace Your English Ancestors –Janet Reakes
Parish and Vital Records Listings 1977
Ancestral Trails –Complete Guide to British Genealogical & Family History –Mark D. Heeber
Book of British Ancestors –Gerald Hamilton Edwards
In Search of British Ancestry – Angus Baxter
British of British Topography –John P. Anderson
Queen Elizabeth I –Beyka Zamoyska
Genealogical Research in England & Wales Vol. II –Smith & Gardner
The Thirty Year War –Geoffrey Parker

Book of British Topography - John J. Anderson

Genealogical Research in England's P R O - J. Prowse Reid & Simon Fowler

IRELAND

How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors – A Janet Reakes A-Z Approach
Flight From Famine – The Coming of the Irish to Canada – Donald MacKay
Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy – Brian Mitchell
The Workhouses of Ireland - John O’Connor
The Irish Roots Guide – Tony McCarthy
Finding Your Irish Ancestors – a Beginners Guide—David S. Ouimette
Irish Family Histories – Ida Grehan
Handbook on Irish Genealogy
A Guide to Irish Parish Registers – Brian Mitchell
Discovering Your Irish Ancestors –Dwight Radford and Kyle Betit
Surnames in Ireland – Sir Robert Matheson
Irish Passenger Lists 1847- 1871—Brian Mitchell
Irish Emigration Lists 1833- 1839 –Brian Mitchell
The Irish in New England – the Kennedys of Massachusetts –Thomas H. O’Connor
Tracing Your Irish Roots –John Grenham
Irish Church Records –James G. Ryan
Land Owners in Ireland 1876 –
Guide to copies and Abstracts of Irish Wills –Rev. Wallace Clark
Story of the Irish Race –Seumas MacManus
A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland –Brian Mitchell
A Short History of Ireland – John O’Beirne Panelagh

MILITARY

• US Military Records - James C. Neagles
• Civil War Union Monuments - Barrich & Beckman
• Uncle, We Are Ready - John J. Newman
• Locating Your Revolutionary War Ancetors - James & Lila Neagles
• Index of Revolutionary War Pension Records - National Genealogical Society
• How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in The Military - Lt. Col. Richard S. Johnson
• Tracing Your Civil War Ancestors - Bertram Groene
• The American Revolution - Three Views
• Colonists & Patriots - Sarles & Shedd
• Confederate Research Sources - James C. Neagles
• WW II Military Records - Deborah Johnson Knox
• A User's Guide to the Official Records of the American Civil War - Allan & Barbara Aimone
• Military Records of the Latin American - Lyman D. Platt
• Military Service Records - National Archives
  
• Searching American Military Records - Fran Carter
  
• How to Locate Anyone Who is or has Been in the Military - Lt. Col. Richard S. Johnson
  
• Confederate Research Sources - James C. Neagles
  
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• MISCELLANEOUS
• Latin American Census Records - Lyman D. Platt
• African American Genealogy at the Denver Public Library
• Hispanic Genealogy at the Denver Public Library
• Mexican & Spanish Family Research - J. Konrad
• Research in Mexico City - Lyman D. Platt PhD
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NATIVE AMERICANS

• How to Research American Indian Blood Lines - Cecelia S. Carpenter
• The Delaware and Shawnee Admitted to Cherokee Citizenship - Toni J. Prevost
• Tracing Ancestors among the Five Civilized Tribes - Rachal Mills Lennon
• Early History of the Cherokees - Emmet Starr
• Utahs of the Rocky Mountains - Ernie Rose
• Eastern Cherokee Applications - FHL Catalog
• Researching Your American Indian Ancestors at the Denver Public Library
• Indian Soldiers for the Gray Army - William H. Graves
• Answers to Your Questions about American Indian - National Archive Microfilm
• A Guide to Finding Your Native American Ancestors - Larry S. Watson
• Cherokee West  1790 - 1839 - Emmett Starr
• Cherokee Old Settler Roll - 1851 - Larry S, Watson
• Indians of the Pacific Northwest - Robert Ruby & John A. Brown
• Our Native Americans, Their Record of Genealogical Value -  Vol 1 & 2 - E. Kay Kirkham
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QUAKERS
Friends in the Carolinas - J. Floyd Moore
My Ancestors Were Quakers – Edward Milligan and Malcolm Thomas
Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682- 1750 – Albert Cook Myers
Our Quaker Ancestors - Ellen and David Berry
Carolina Quakers Three Hundred Years – Seth Hinshaw
Quaker Marriage Certificates – North Carolina 1677- 1800 Gwen Bjorkman
Quaker Genealogies: A Selected List of Books – Willard Heiss and Thomas Hamm
Quaker Records of Southern Maryland – 1658 – 1800 –Henry C. Peden Jr.
Our Quaker Ancestors – Ellen and David Berry
The Friendly Virginians – America’s First Quakers –jay Worrall, Jr.
Abstracts of the records of the Society of Friends in Indiana Vol. I and II and Part 6 – Willard Heiss

RESEARCH AIDS

Map Guide to the US. Federal Census Records 1795 - 1920 - William Dollarhide

American Heritage - 1965

Index to Bibles and Family Records of US, Vol 2 - E. Kay Kirkham

Redbook , American State, County & Town Sources

County Courthouse Book - Elizabeth P. Bentley

Searching American Church Records - Fran Carter-Walker

Genelaogical Research at the National Archives

Handy Guide to Records (Searching in Large Cities of the US) - E. Kay Kirkham

Hidden Sources (Family History in Unlikely Places - Laura Szucs Pfeiffer

Family Names - J n Hook PhD

Finding your Forefathers in America - Archibald Bennet

American Surnames - Elsdon C. Smith

Following the Paper Trail - Jonathon Shea & William Hoffman

The Census Book - Willam Dollarhide

Cite Your Sources - Richard Lackey

Handbook of Denominations in the US - Frank S. Mead

International Vital Records Handbook - Thomas J. Kemp

Directory of Historical Organizations in the US and Canada - Mary B. Wheeler

American Naturalization Records - 1790 - 1990 - John J. Neuman

American Expansion Maps - Sale & Karn

American Naturalizaion Processes & Procedures - John J. Neuman

Searching American Land & Deed Records - Fran Carter

Ameica's Best Genealogical Research Centers - Bill Dollarhide & Ron Bremner

The Sleuth Book for Genealogists  Emily Anne Croom

Land and Property Research in the U.S. - E. Wade Hone

When Your Ox is in the Ditch – Genealogical How-to Letters –Vera Mcdowell
Guide to Local and Family History at the Newberry Library –Peggy Tuck Sinko

State Census Records - Ann S. Lainhart

SCOTLAND
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland Vol. I—–Samuel Lewis
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland –Vol. II -Samuel Lewis

UNITED STATES
Connecticut 167 Census – Jay Mack Holbrook
A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia –E. Merton Coulter and Albert B. Saye
Index 1860 Georgia Federal Census –Family Tree

30,638 Burials in Georgia - Jeannette H. Austin

History of Lowndes Co. Georgia - 1825 -1941 - Mrs. Fred Hodges
Georgia Families (Biographic Listing) --Donald M Heber
Coffee County Georgia Cemeteries 1837- 1978 –Regional Library –Douglas, Georgia
Illinois Libraries-Mar –Apr 1988 Vol 7. No. 3-4 –Newspapers in Ill State
Chicago, Cook County Gen & Historical Guide –Loretta Dennis Szucx
Origin and Evolutions of Illinois counties –Jessie White
Kentuckians in Illinois –Stuart S. Sprague
Census of Iowa 1895 –W.M. McFarland
Hawkeye Heritage – Iowa Genealogical Society
Illustrated Historical Atlas - Des Moines Iowa—A. T. Andreas
Passport of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823 –Dorothy W, Potter
Kentucky Colonization in Texas –A History of the Peters Colony—Seymour V. Connor
Kentuckians in Ohio and Indiana –Stuart Seely Sprague
Biographical Sketches from Kentucky – 1867—W. H. Perry
Benedict Pioneers in Kentucky –Marvin J. Pearce Sr.
Maryland Genealogical Research –George K. Schweitzer

Plymouth Colony 1620 - 1691 -Eugene a. Stratton
Michigan Surname Index –Vol. I and Vol. 2 –Michigan Genealogical Council
The Book of Minnesotans –Albert Nelson Marquis
Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors –Anne S. Lipscomb & Kathleen S. Hutchinson
Marriage Records, Randolph County, Missouri –Elisabeth Prather Ellsberry
Paxton Funeral Home Records (1871 -1900) Springfield, Missouri –Ozark Gen. Society
Kentuckians in Missouri –Stuart Seely Sprague
Will and Administration, Randolph County, Missouri –Elisabeth Prather Ellsberry
A Guide to County Records on Microfilm—Missouri State Archives
Newspaper Extracts 1865 – 1888- Ozark Gen. Society
Missouri Marriage before 1840 –Susan Ormesher
History of Hitchcock County, Nebraska –Curtis Media Corp.
New England History – C. P> Bromley
Planters of the Commonwealth –Charles Edward Banks
New England Marriages –Torrey
New Hampshire Census 1732 – Jay Mack Holland
Heads of Families –First Census -1790 New Hampshire
New Hampshire Marriage Licenses –Pauline Johnson Oesterline
New Mexico Colonial Families –Totah Gen. Society
Researching Your Roots in New York –Arlene H Eakle
Genealogical Resources, New York Metropolitan ---Estelle M. Gozick
All Name Index, New York State

Long Island Genealogy - Mary P. Bunker
Hayward County, North Carolina Families –Alice R. Cook
North Carolina Taxpayers- 1679- 1790—Donald E. Ratcliff
North Carolina Taxpayers -1701 -1786 –Clarence Ratcliff
North Carolina Genealogical Research – George K. Schweitzer
Guide to Private Manuscript Collections in the North Carolina State Archives – Barbara T. Cain
State Census of North Carolina 1784- 1787 Alvaretta Register
North Carolina - Levi Absher Ledger—Wilkes Gen. Society
Indexes and Abstracts of Obituaries for Individuals with Ties to Ohio –Colorado Chapter Gen Society
Ohio Lands –Thomas E. Ferguson
Annals of Adams , Muskingum County—Ohio Hist. Society
Central Pennsylvania Marriages 1700-1896 –Charles A. fisher
Early Pennsylvania Birth 1675 – 1875 –Charles A. Fisher
Pennsylvania Area Key – Genealogical Sources of Pennsylvania
Colonial & Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania Vol. I –John W. Gordon
Colonial & Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania Vol. II –John W. Gordon
The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania –Oscar Kuhns
Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania- the Early Settlers –Charles H. Browning
Who’s Your Hoosier Ancestor—Mona Robinson
Emigrants to Pennsylvania -1641- 1819—Michael Tepper
Pennsylvania German Immigrants 1709-1786 –Don Yoder
Mother Cumberland – Tracing Your Ancestors in S. Central Pennsylvania –Raymond Bell
South Carolina Genealogical Research—George K. Schweitzer
South Carolina Marriages -1688-1799 - Brent H. Holcomb
1850 Census of Horry County, South Carolina –Janet H. Wood
Tennessee Genealogical Research – George K. Schweitzer
Collins Chronicles of Texas – Collins County Genealogical Society

Genealogical Records in Texas - Imogene K. & J. Leon Kenney
Builders of Uintah –Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
Genealogical Records --Laureen R. Joussi & Gloria D. Chaston
Piedmont Lineages , Vol. 1 & 2 - Piedmont Genealogical Society
Marriages of Goochland County, Virginia 1173 -1815 –Kathleen Booth Williams
Old Virginia and her Heighbors, Vol 1 & 2 –John fiske
Key to Southern Pedigrees , Vol. III –Crozier
Marriage Bonds of Bedford County, Virginia 1735-1800 –Dennis & Smith
Virginia Genealogical Research – George K. Schweitzer
Virginia Genealogy – Sources and Resources –Carol McGinnis
Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County – Virginia –John B. Boddie
Gleanings of Monroe County, West Virginia History – Charles B. Motley
North Prairie – Wisconsin 1834 – 1950 –Donald J. Kabitzke
Cemetery Inscriptions of Sauk County, Wisconsin—Myrtle E. Cushing

MISC - UNITED STATES
U.S. Catholic Sources – Virginia Humling
Searching American Church Records – Fran Carter-Walker
Fanning’s Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States
Morton Allan Directory –of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals –
Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas –Christina K. Schaefer
Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the 18th Century to the American Colonies –Albert B. Faust
A Bibliography of American County Histories –P. William Filby
American Heritage , Vol. XVI # 2Research in American Genealogy – E. Kay Kirkham
American Origins –L.G. Pine

Migration Trails Map - Everton Publication

Immigrants to the Middle Colonies - Michael Tepper

The Origin of Certain Place Names in the US - Henry Gannett

Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)