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• The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy (third edition, ca. 2010), ed. by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (HTML at ancestry.com)

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• What Does America Mean to You? History and Genealogy (2 volumes; 1942-1962), by Evelyn Jeanette Miller Ownbey
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: page images at HathiTrust
• Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America, by American Historical Company (partial serial archives)
• Finding Your Forefathers in America (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft Co., 1957), by Archibald F. Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Mayo Genealogy (typescript; ca. 1963), by Jean May Mayo-Rodwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to the Legitimate Issue of Kings (second edition; Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1891), by Charles Henry Browning (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Magna Charta Barons and Their American Descendants With the Pedigrees of the Founders of the Order of Runnemede Deduced From the Sureties for the Enforcement of the Statutes of the Magna Charta of King John (Philadelphia, 1898), by Charles Henry Browning
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Travis (Travers) Family and its Allies: Darrocott, Lewis, Livingston, Nicholson, McLaughlin, Pharr, Smith, and Terrell, Including Royal Lines of Descent (c1954), by Robert J. Travis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families (Shelby, MS: Shelby Book Store, 1949), by M. M. Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Families Directly Descended From All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to 1932), and Mayflower Descendants (Burlington, VT: Free Press Printing Co., 1932), by Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book, ed. by John Matthews (partial serial archives)
• The Sloopers, Their Ancestry and Posterity: The Story of the People on the Norwegian Mayflower, the Sloop, "Restoration" (Broadview, IL: Norwegian Slooper Society of America, 1961), by Jesse Hart Rosdail (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jelke and Frazier and Allied Families (New York: De Forest Pub. Co., 1931), by Louis Effingham De Forest (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families (3 volumes; Greenfield, OH: Privately printed, 1932), by Charles Arthur Hoppin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy (third edition, ca. 2010), ed. by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (HTML at ancestry.com)

• The American Genealogical Index (48 volumes; Middletown, CT: Pub. by a committee representing the cooperating subscribing libraries, 1942-1952), ed. by Fremont Rider (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Genealogical-Biographical Index to American Genealogical, Biographical, and Local History Materials, contrib. by Fremont Rider (partial serial archives)
• The American Genealogical Index (48 volumes; Middletown, CT: Pub. by a committee representing the cooperating subscribing libraries, 1942-1952), ed. by Fremont Rider (page images at HathiTrust)

• Genealogy (1912-1930) (full serial archives)

• Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies (Pursuant to Statute 13 George II. c. 7) (Publications of the Huguenot Society of London v24; Manchester, UK: Printed by Sherratt and Hughes, 1921), ed. by M. S. Giuseppi (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register (based on a 1990s transcription by Robert Kraft), by James Savage
  • HTML with commentary at werelate.org
  • HTML at usgennet.org
• A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register (4 volumes; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1860-1862), by James Savage
  • Volume I (A-C): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (D-J): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (K-R): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (S-Z), and 1884 cross-index: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went From Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 (reprinted New York: Empire State Book Co., from a London edition of 1874), ed. by John Camden Hotten (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut (Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany, and Co., 1852; bound with Hinman supplement published in 1856), by R. R. Hinman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hale, House, And Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1978), by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut: Being the Ancestry and Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith (5 volumes; 1939-1958), by Herbert Furman Seversmith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Italians in Colonial Florida: A Repertory of Italian Families Settled in Florida Under the Spanish (1513-1762, 1784-1821) and British (1762-1784) Regimes; With a Brief Historical Outline, And an Appendix on The Contemporary Colonial Press (Jacksonville, FL: The Drew Press, 1940), by Bruno Roselli (page images at HathiTrust)

• A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1949), ed. by E. Merton Coulter and Albert Berry Saye (PDF at Georgia)
• The Strouds: A Colonial Family of English Descent (Lakeland, FL: The Child Printery, 1919), by A. B. Stroud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865 (6 volumes; 1959-1964), ed. by Lillian Henderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Register of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Iowa, by Sons of the Revolution; Iowa Society (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)

• A History and Genealogy of the Garreds, Jarretts of Kentucky, and Many Related Families (Whiting, IA: J. Holmes Pub. Co., c1957), by Ulysses Victoria Garred (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Lander family of Virginia and Kentucky (Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1926), by David Lander (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jacob Perkins of Wells, Maine and His Descendants, 1583-1936 (Haverhill, MA: Record Pub. Co., 1947), by Thomas Allen Perkins, ed. by Harold Clarke Durrell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Maryland Dents: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Judge Thomas Dent and Captain John Dent Who Settled Early in the Province of Maryland (Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1963), by Harry Wright Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hollyday and Related Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland: Including the Truman, Vaughan, Covington, Lloyd, Robins, Chamberlaine, Hayward, Carmichael, Murray, Bennett, Earle, Chew, Hemsley, Tilghman, Goldsborough, and Other Families (Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1962), by James Bordley, ed. by Walter B. Norris and Walter D. Sharp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cecil Family of Maryland: A Genealogy and History of Some Descendants of William Cecil, ca. 1665-1749, With Some Allied Ball Families (1963), by Walter V. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Flowering of the Maryland Palatinate: An Intimate and Objective History of the Province of Maryland to the Overthrow of Proprietary Rule in 1654, With Accounts of Lord Baltimore's Settlement at Avalon (Washington: The author, 1961), by Harry Wright Newman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Stones of Poynton Manor: A Genealogical History of Captain William Stone, Gent. and Merchant, Third Proprietary Governor of Maryland, With Sketches of His English Background and a Record of Some of His Descendants in the United States (Washington, DC: The author, 1937), by Harry Wright Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Ratcliff of Lancashire, England and Talbot County, Maryland and His Ancestors and Descendants, 1066-1988 (electronic edition, with supplements), by Clarence E. Ratcliff (PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (4 volumes; New York: Lewis historical Pub. Co., 1908), ed. by William Richard Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Genealogy of the Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, by the Names of Adams, Bullard, Holbrook, Rockwood, Sanger, Wood, Grout, Goulding, and Twitchell (Boston: Printed for the author, 1857), by Abner Morse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Family of Bray Wilkins, "Patriarch of Will's Hill", of Salem (Middleton), Mass. (Milford, NH: Printed at the Cabinet Press, 1943), by William Carroll Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of the Twitchell Family: Record of the Descendants of the Puritan, Benjamin Twitchell, Dorchester, Lancaster, Medfield and Sherborn, Massachusetts, 1632-1927 (New York: Privately printed for H. K. Twitchell, 1929), by Ralph Emerson Twitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of the Perrin Family (facsimile reprint; originally published 1885), by Glover Perin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Haverhill Emersons (2 volumes; Boston and Cambridge: Murray and Emerson Co., 1913-1916), by Charles Henry Pope
  • Part First: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part Second: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Hendrick Genealogy: Daniel Hendrick of Haverhill, Mass. and His Descendants, With An Appendix Containing Brief Accounts of Several Other Hendrick Families (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Co., 1923), by Chas. T. Hendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families; With Some Account of the Earlier Hyatt Families, a List of the First Settlers of Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass., etc. (Providence: Printed for the author by the Providence Press Co., 1871), by David Webster Hoyt (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri (St. Louis: Bryan Brand and Co., 1876), by William Smith Bryan and Robert Rose (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Smith, Grant, and Irons Families of New Jersey's Shore Counties, Including the Related Families of Willets and Birdsall (1955), by James W. Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Woolvertons: Early Legal Records of the Family in New Jersey, and the Descendants of Charles Woolverton (2) to the Seventh Generation (Philadelphia: Press of Harris and Partridge, 1932), by Emma Ten Broeck Runk (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Jersey Browns (1931), by Charlotte Cowdrey Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony (Bridgeton, NJ: G. F. Nixon, 1876), by Thomas Shourds
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey (5 volumes, later ones subtitled "Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants"; 1903-1932), by John E. Stillwell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
• My Folks: Story of the Forefathers of Oliver Francis Mershon, M.D. As Told by Himself, in the Words of Grace Lucile Olmstead Mershon (Rahway, NJ: Privately printed by Quinn and Boden Co., 1946), by Oliver Francis Mershon and Grace Lucile Olmstead Mershon (page images at HathiTrust)

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