New in the Genealogy Center
With books covering all 50 states and beyond, we’re constantly adding to the wealth of resources available to you and your ancestry journey. Take a look at the latest added to the Genealogy collection here on the blog.
General
What’s in a Name? Everything you Wanted to Know new, revised, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Texas
Murder & Mayhem on the Texas Rails by Jeff Campbell and the Interurban Railway Museum
Collin County (TX) Historical Marker Book, County Markers 2019 Collin County Historical Commission
Hangings and Lynchings in Dallas County, Texas 1853-1920 by Terry Baker
A Sesquicentennial History of Richardson, Texas, vol. 1 Rural roots, 1841-1924 by Steven R. Butler
A Weekend in September (Galveston, TX hurricane of 1900) by John Edward Weems
Gone – But Not Forgotten: a Survey of Cemeteries in Boerne and Surrounding Areas, 2 vols. Boerne Area Historical Preservation Society
Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth’s Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s by Ann Arnold
Sheppard Air Force Base (Wichita County, TX) by SMSGT Norman Wayne Brown
Wichita Falls (Wichita County, TX) by Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.
United States
Genealogist’s Handbook for New England Research 6th ed. Edited by Rhonda R. McClure
White Slave Children in Colonial America: Supplement by Richard Hayes Phillips
Our People: Carpatho-Rusyns and Their Descendants in North America Paul Robert Magocsi
Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810 2nd edition by Paul Heinegg
DNA for Native American Genealogy Roberta Estes
Obituaries from Barbour County, Alabama Newspapers 1890-1905 Helen S. Foley
Connecticut Divorces: Superior Court Records for the Counties of Litchfield 1752-1922 and Hartford 1740-1849 compiled by Barbara B. Ferris and Grace Louise Knox
Simpson County, Kentucky Vital Statistics by Dorothy Donnell Steers
Simpson County, Kentucky Cemeteries Simpson County Historical Society
Simpson County, Kentucky Families Past and Present Simpson County Historical Society
Early Families of Frederick County, Maryland and Adams County, Pennsylvania by Steve Gilland
Westward of Fort Cumberland Military Lots Set Off for Maryland’s Revolutionary Soldiers (Allegany County) by Mary K. Meyer
Rose Hill Cemetery Cumberland, Maryland (Allegany County) Genealogical Society of Allegany County, MD., Inc.
Abstracts of Carroll County Newspapers, 1831-1846 (Maryland) by Marlene Bates & Martha Reamy
Frederick County, Maryland Land Records Abstracts (3 vols., 1778-1792) by Patricia Abelard Andersen
Frederick County (Maryland) Backgrounds by Steve Gilland
Montgomery County, Maryland Deed Books (4 vols. 1803-1827) by Patricia Abelard Andersen
The History of Dickerson, Mouth of Monacacy, Oakland Mills, and Sugarloaf Mountain (MD) by Dona L. Cuttler
Dorchester (MA) Births, Marriages and Deaths to the End of 1825 Record Commissioners of the City of Boston
Gravestone Inscriptions and Records of Tomb Burials in the Granary Burying Ground Boston, Massachusetts by Ogden Codman
Records of Randolph County, Missouri, 1833-1964 by Sherida K. Eddlemon
Fort Kearny on the Platte (Nebraska) by D. Ray Wilson
A History of Bridgetown Cemetery: Quietly Serving Cincinnati’s Western Hills for over 150 Years (OH) by Joe Flickinger
History of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania (2 vols.) by J. Simpson Africa
Bedford County (PA) Marriage Records Oct. 1885 – April 1890 by Michael A. Hengst
Records from the Past: Funeral Home Records Fairchance, Fayette County, Pennsylvania by Kathryn Cooley Miller
Cemeteries of Fayette County PA, vol. 1 by Rose Yaniga and John J. Yaniga Jr.
Shenango Valley Cemetery, book 1, 1882-1913 by Mark S. Painter
Early Families of York County, Pennsylvania, vol. 1 by Keith A. Dull
Chester County, South Carolina Deed Abstracts, vol. 1-2, deed books A-F and G-M, 1785-1807 by Brent Holcomb
Some Slaves of Caroline County, Virginia: Will books 19, 29, 30, 31, and 32 and Guardian’s Book by Sandra Barlau
Madison in Focus: a City’s Story Told Through Photography from Wisconsin State Journal
Europe
The People of Perth and Kinross, 1800-1850 (Scotland) by David Dobson
Palatine Church Visitations, 1609 (Germany) by Ricardo W. Staudt
About Genealogy Center
Plano Public Library has a Genealogy Center housed at Haggard Library. See the library website for details of this service including online archives, databases and in-house services. Head straight to our Genealogy Resources page for a list of databases and websites to help reach your ancestry mapping goals.