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Greenwood, Val D. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. 2d ed. 1990. Reprint. 1997.

 

Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. 1997.

 

Sperry, Kip. Reading Early American Handwriting. 1998.

 

Black's Law Dictionary. 6th ed. 1990.

 

Simpson, J. A., and E. S. C. Weiner. The Oxford English Dictionary. 20 vols. 2d ed. 1989. Additions Series. 2 vols. 1993.

 

Cheney, C. R., ed. Handbook of Dates for Students of English History. 1978.

 

Dictionary of American History. [Ed. by James T. Adams, 1940.] 8 vols. Rev. ed. 1976-1978.

 

Atlas of American History. [Ed. by Kenneth T. Jackson, 1978.] 2d rev. ed. 1984.

 

Cappon, Lester J., and others. Atlas of Early American History: the Revolutionary Era, 1760-1790. 1976.

 

Thorndale, William, and William Dollarhide. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920. 1987. Reprint. 1995.

 

Sale, Randall D., and Edwin D. Karn. American Expansion: A Book of Maps. 1962. Reprint. 1979.

 

Abate, Frank R. Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America. 11 vols. 1991.

 

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives. Rev. ed. 1985.

 

Wehmann, Howard H. A Guide to Pre-Federal Records in the National Archives. Rev. ed. by Benjamin L. DeWhitt. 1989.

 

U.S. Library of Congress. Newspapers in Microform: United States, 1948-1983. 2 vols. 1984.

 

Periodical Source Index [PERSI], 1847-1985. 16 vols. 1988-1995. Continued by annual volumes, beginning with 1986.

 

Clegg, Michael B., ed. Bibliography of Genealogy and Local History Periodicals with Union List of Major U.S. Collections. 1990.

 

Horowitz, Lois. A Bibliography of Military Name Lists from pre-1675 to 1900: A Guide to Genealogical Sources. 1990.

 

Filby, P. William, comp. American & British Genealogy & Heraldry: A Selected List of Books. 3d ed. 1983; 1982-1985 Supplement. 1987.

 

Prucha, Francis. Handbook for Research in American History: A Guide to Bibliographies and Other Reference Books. Rev. ed. 1994.

 

Balay, Robert, ed. Guide to Reference Books. 11th ed. 1996.