Kitsap Regional Library has over 250 items that deal with the subject of genealogy. This is a short list of recent and/or significant titles. Books about genealogy and its related topics begin in the 929.1 call number area. Also included are books of fiction which would appeal to genealogists.

Books for check-out

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Reference Books (for use in the library)

The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America / 2002. R 929.1072 EVERTON

The Ancestry Family Historian’s Address Book / by Juliana Szucs Smith, 1997. A Comprehensive list of local, state, and federal agencies, institutions and ethnic and genealogical organizations. R 929.1025 SMITH.

Ancestry’s Red Book / 1997. American state, county and town sources. R 929.1072 ANCESTR

County Courthouse Book / 1995. Offers current addresses, phone numbers and contact persons; dates of coverage and costs for vital records; probate, land, and naturalization records; dates of county information, names of parent counties, and former names; and alternative locations of records. R 929.373 BENTLEY

Directory of Family Associations / 1996. Offers addresses, contact names and phone numbers for family associations, reunion committees, one-name societies, surname exchanges, family newsletters and surname databases. R 929.2025 BENTLEY

 The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women’s Genealogy / by Christina K. Schaefer, 1999. R929.1082 SCHAEF

Passenger and Immigration Lists Bibliography: 1538-1900 / 1988. Identifies and provides full bibliographic information for more than 2,550 published passenger and immigration lists. R 929.373 FILBY

They Became Americans / by Lorenzo Dennis Szucs, 1998. A guide to finding naturalization records and ethnic origins. R 929.1072 SZUCS  

U.S. Military Records / by James C. Neagles, 1994. A guide to federal and state sources covering colonial America to the present. R 929.3097 NEAGLES