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

• American migration routes: Indian paths, post roads, & wagon roads
• Personalities of the South
• Our Quaker ancestors
• “Wasteing my substance by riotous living”: New England runaways, 1778-1783
• Women’s diaries of the Westward journey
• Lay Down Body (African Americans)
• American Scots-Irish research (Irish)
• Irish American ancestors: using US strategies and records to identify origins (Irish)

Texas

• Texas Alpha 100 years of history: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, University of Texas Austin
• Pinch of this and a handful of that: historic recipes of Texas, 1830-1900
• Golden Spread: an illustrated history of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle
• Texas Maker: the heretofore unknown legend of Collin McKinney (Collin County, Texas)
• Journey toward prominence: the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at SMU, 1920-2005
• They came to stay: the story of the Jews of Dallas, 1870-1997
• Terrell tales: stories of the No. 1 BFTS told by students, instructors, and friends (Kaufman County, Texas)
• Lamar County Genealogy and History: Moments in Time, vol. 36, 2018
• Lamar County Genealogy and History: Snippets from a lost year, vol. 39, 2021
• Forever Menard: the lost stories (Menard County, Texas)
• Navarro County history, vol. 5
• Amarillo, Texas: the first hundred years (Potter County, Texas)
• Historic Austin: an illustrated history (Travis County, Texas)

United States

• Fayette County, Alabama index to marriage records, 1850-1970
• Fayette County, Alabama index to wills & estate records, 1850-1970
• Fayette County, Alabama cemetery records
• Goodspeed biographical and historical memoirs of western Arkansas
• Searcy Centennial, 1837-1937: history (White County, Arkansas)
• Greene County Iowa Cemetery Records: from Tomb stone readings of Greene County, Iowa
• Slaves and slave owners: Harford County, Maryland 1814
• Mayflower families in progress: Richard Church and his descendants for four generations
• Minneapolis portrait of the past: a photographic history of the early days in Minneapolis (Hennepin County, Minnesota)
• Six Flags over Mid-America (St. Louis County, Missouri)
• Streets of Elizabeth, New Jersey: an encyclopedia of Elizabethtown, New Jersey Street names and origins (Union County, New Jersey)
• Ring the bells for Olde Pen Aryl (Northampton County, Pennsylvania)
• Roadside history of South Dakota
• Seth Bullock’s the founding of a county (Lawrence County, South Dakota)
• Tennessee Regulars in the War of 1812
• Confederates of Prince Edward County, Virginia and deaths in Farmville Hospital, 1862-1865

Military

• American prisoners of war during the War of 1812: Birth, death, and parole records
• Over the top: veterans of the First World War

Europe

• 600+ wills & administrations of Belize 1750-1800s
• The people of Glasgow and Clydesdale at home and abroad, 1800-1850
• The people of North East Scotland at home and abroad, 1800-1850
• The people of South West Scotland at home and abroad, 1800-1850
• Discovering Irish origins using the records of Ireland
• Researching Scots-Irish ancestors: the essential genealogical guide to early modern Ulster, 1600-1800 (Ireland)

Family Histories

• Ancestors of Frances Maria Goodman (1829-1912) wife of Learner Blackman Harrison
• Montgomerys gone but not forgotten: obituaries, tributes, and editorials

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.