Foreign Research Guides Reprinted
October 16th, 1994FOREIGN RESEARCH GUIDES REPRINTED
Foreign research is a necessity if one is going to trace a family outside of the United States. Angus Baxter began a series of research guides over ten years ago that he has now brought up to date with new editions. The four volumes of his “In Search Of” series covers British and Irish Roots, European Roots, German Roots, and Canadian Roots. Each book has starting tips, explores the history and records keeping of the country or its earlier components, discusses archives and libraries, where they are located and how to visit or correspond by mail. All volumes are fully indexed. The European volume has chapters from Albania to Yugoslavia. While more is needed if that country is the source of your roots, the book’s chapters are at least a start. Other research guides as well as local genealogical associations are listed where applicable. The Canadian volume has a chapter for each of the provinces, and at 350 pages is the largest. Earlier editions are at many genealogical libraries. The new ones are available from Genealogical Publishing Co., 1001 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, Md. 21202. The German volume is $11.95, the others $16.95 each, all paperback, $3 postage for one book, $1 for each additional one.
ENGLISH RESEARCH
Joy Wade Moulton, a fellow genealogy columnist and one of the founders of the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History, compiled “Genealogical Resources in English Repositories” in 1988 with a 1992 supplement. I have recently used this book in conjunction with records available on microfilm through the Mormons’ Family History Center. The book is a great guide as to which records are found at a certain repository, such as the Society of Genealogists in London, and then the author marks which of those records are available on microfilm via the Mormons. The book has opened up a number of new sources for me. It is organized county by county, repository by repository. There is not much text to be read. There are maps which help one understand how London is divided up. The supplement ($4.75 plus $1 postage) brings the addresses and fees up to date. For information contact Hampton House, P.O.Box 21534, Columbus, Ohio 43221.
POLAND and RUSSIA
Atlantan Gary Palgon, V.P. of the Jewish Genealogical Society, has written that he has just returned from a genealogy research trip to Europe where he searched for his own ancestry in what is now Poland and the former Soviet republic of Belarus. He found that he had already had access to some Polish microfilm in the U.S. and thus saved time on his trip. At the National Archives of Belarus, he was shown original materials dating to the 1790s. Anyone interested in these two countries might contact him for advice at 2700 Claridge Ct., Atlanta, Ga. 30360.
TENNESSEE’S FIRST FAMILIES
To honor Tennessee’s 200th anniversary of statehood in 1996, the East Tennessee Historical Society has begun “First Families of Tennessee” to be made of direct descendants of anyone living there when it became a state. For details, contact the East Tenn. Historical Society, P.O.Box 1629, Knoxville, Tenn. 37901.