The Researcher's Guide To American Genealogy
by Val D. Greenwood

The genealogy textbook that rises above all the rest in stature and authority. See for yourself why Library Journal recommends it as "the most comprehensive how-to book on American genealogical and local history research." And The Virginia Genealogist says it is "impossible to recommend this book too highly."

This completely revised second edition, updated to include all major developments in the field, is an essential text for the present generation of researchers in American genealogy. While it instructs the researcher in the timeless principles of genealogical research, it also identifies the various classes of records employed in that research, groups them in convenient tables and charts, gives their location, explains their uses, and evaluates each of them in the context of the research project.

623 pp., paperback, 2nd edition, 1990, ISBN 0-8063-1267-X