A Professional Researcher's Most Used Genealogy Books

[@AncestryAimee]

Here's my video on my most used websites... kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJWYfXWkjZZ_jrc

[@SdhHutton]

Very informative, Aimee! Thank you for educating me in so many ways!

[@AncestryAimee]

Thank you!

[@phh1789]

Very informative. I will be looking into some of the books on your list. I have a couple of the Mills books already and they have been very helpful, but some of your suggestions are of interest to me. Thank you. Small suggestion--I would have liked to have seen the covers of some of the books, and you put them down so fast without showing us.

[@AncestryAimee]

Glad it was helpful! And thanks for the suggestion! I will do that next time. There are links to the books in the show notes under the video so you can find them. Hope that helps!

[@shirleygold5152]

I am afraid I was a little too confident and ambitious when I volunteered to research my son in laws black ancestry. I knew it would be hard but I was looking forward to the opportunity to try. I didn't expect it to get so difficult as did by the 1940 census AND I am no where close to the Civil War. The fact this group of people were so undervalued in Arkansas has me lost and wondering where to go next. I am going to find the church records book you have, maybe that will be helpful. Thank you for this great information, I now have a new haystack to look at.

[@AncestryAimee]

Ari Wilkins is amazing and has a presentation coming up which is free through the Dallas TX library. dallaslibrary.librarymarket.com/events/researching-african-americans-census-records. Maybe it will be of help.

[@sammott8557]

I'm confused. I clicked to link to Elizabeth Shown Mill's book (the 2nd choice) but taken to another book.

[@AncestryAimee]

I'm so sorry Sam - I thought I had checked all links and obviously did not. I appreciate you bringing it to my attention! Here's the link (it's also corrected in the video) amzn.to/3I215Bp. The older edition, the one I have is at amzn.to/3gYfNgK.

[@sammott8557]

@@AncestryAimee Tku. Mistakes happen. If anything, I appreciate all you are sharing in this and your other videos; its moving me fwd in this project.

[@AncestryAimee]

@@sammott8557 so glad to hear the videos are of help to you!

[@skanoot]

Great information! Thank you.

[@AncestryAimee]

Glad it was helpful!

[@christycarpio647]

Hello and thank you for sharing your resources for genealogy! I appreciate your information on African American descent. My test shows very little African American in my genealogy. I am adopted and I really connected with my feelings of displacement, when you were mentioning the difficulties of research for African Americans. Especially the mention of not being valued as a person. I was born in SLC, Utah (1962). Utah is still closed and sealed adoption records. I find this extremely frustrating and biased that genealogy resources hold records and have made them publically accessible. Though it provides clues for many, it doesn't satisfy the unfairness of not knowing biological parents names, ancestry and medical information. My birth mom will not divulge the name of my birth father. She's 85 years and I feel uncertain if I should press the issue with her. I don't want to upset her yet at the same time I feel the strong desire of wanting to discover ancestry and medical information on my biological father's side. I'm wondering if you would know of any resources or ways for me to find out how to get information. I often feel like the voice of adoptees is unheard and many people don't want to acknowledge and help adoptees. I don't speak for all adoptees, only the ones who feel like they have no voice! Thank you kindly for whatever help and guidance you are able to provide. All my best - Chris

[@AncestryAimee]

I’m so sorry. It is so difficult and have helped some clients find their adoptive parents. Have you done a DNA test? They are on sale now for Mother’s Day. I would recommend Ancestry’s Autosomal test. They have the largest database of matches.

[@christycarpio647]

@@AncestryAimee Thank you for responding and for your kind compassion! I have done Ancestry and 23&me DNA tests. It's like trying to straighten out a big mess of tangled yarn! LOL I'm wondering if there are any resources that are available for adoptees. Thank you!

[@AncestryAimee]

@@christycarpio647 first I would say to understand how to learn how to examine your Ancestry results (23&me doesn't help much with matches because they don't have trees). Here's a quick video on this topic kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJ2vdZaihsRof9k. I'm a fairly new channel and haven't had time to do more. Family History Fanatics have some good videos too as does GenealogyTV. You need to separate your matches to see what comes from your dad. You can also visit Ancestry's help page for tutorials. If you can get your mom to do a DNA test, that would help too.

[@gopherlyn]

I have Mastering Genealogical Proof, Genealogy Standards, & The family Tree Guide to DNA Testing & Genetic Genealogy, I have not been able to purchase the books by Elizabeth Shown Mills as much as I would like to, I just can't afford them at the moment. I am currently taking Genealogy courses through the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, I'm just starting the Intermediate Level.

[@AncestryAimee]

That’s terrific! I understand about those books! Some are so expensive. Sometimes you can find them cheaper at genealogy conferences. Rootstech is coming up - it’s free virtually. Check that out.

[@roberthopgood1894]

Don't you have any books for people OUTSIDE the US?? rather ethnocentric of you

[@AncestryAimee]

Sorry - I talk about what I know and I do professional U.S. research. If you have suggestions, please put them in the comments for others. I'd appreciate it!

[@andreadavis9273]

Professional genealogist are regionally certified, that’s why their areas are listed when you hire one. Your comment was rude, accusatory and unnecessary. If the content isn’t pertinent to you then find a different channel that is. Genealogy is too vast a topic to know everything about every region across the globe. If the genealogist works in a particular country it only makes sense that the information they provide would be specific to that area.