Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission: Impossible! music here), is:
(1) Teresa at the Writing My Past blog wrote a post about her genealogy bookshelf, even showing photographs of the books on several of her shelves. Linda Stufflebean thought this was a good SNGF topic, so here we are!
(2) Tell us what books, or types of books, are on your genealogy bookshelf/ves in your home. Do you have a photo of them? Are there specific books that you use more than others?
(2) Tell us what books, or types of books, are on your genealogy bookshelf/ves in your home. Do you have a photo of them? Are there specific books that you use more than others?
(3) Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.
Well, I'm not only in the same boat as Randy, with too many books on too many shelves and impossible to gather in one photo, but I have lots more books not even on shelves — in boxes, in stacks on the floor, wherever I can fit them. That's partly because I still haven't finished unpacking after my move (yes, it was more than two years ago, but I have torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders, so moving boxes full of books is not an easy thing to do) but also because I still keep getting more books!
That said, I took a photo of several of the books currently closest to my desk. It's quite a random selection, as you will see.
Instead of laying them on a bed, I kind of organized them on the floor near my desk. The photo seems a little blurry to me, but I didn't feel up to arranging everything again, and so here we are.
Starting from the left and working across, we have:
• The California Register, 1954, Social Blue Book of California
• History of the Alpha Phi Fraternity, 1872–1902, Ruth Sanders Thomson
• Figures de la première génération: Les enfants du notaire Michel Roy et leur destin ("Important People of the First Generation: The Children of Notary Michel Roy and Their Lives"), Raymond Douville, in French
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
• Mary Mattoon and Her Hero of the Revolution, Alice M. Walker
• The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library, Johni Cerny and Wendy Elliott, editors
• Spirits of the Passage: The Translatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century, Madeleine Burnside and Rosemarie Robotham
• The Lanphere Family Research Aid, Shirley (McElroy) Bucknum, compiler
• The Southern Magazine: Mississippi Edition, April–May 1934, Volume I, Number 2
• Family Tree Factbook, Diane Haddad and editors of Family Tree Magazine
• The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race, & War in the Nineteenth Century, Martha Hodes
• Census Substitutes & State Census Records, Volume 1: Eastern States, William Dollarhide
• Census Substitutes & State Census Records, Volume 2: Western States, William Dollarhide
• These Hundred Years: A Chronicle of the Twentieth Century, as Recorded in the Pages of the Youngstown Vindicator
• Strange, Amazing, and Funny Events That Happened during the Revolutionary War, Jack Darrell Crowder
• The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society: New Perspectives on Civil War–Era Kentucky, Volume 110, Numbers 3 & 4, Summer/Autumn 2012
• Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869, Stephen E. Ambrose
• Legacy Family Tree User's Guide, Millennia Corporation
• A Directory of Old Boys of Trinity College School, 1865–1960, The T.C.S. Association
• The Mississippi Valley Historical Review: A Journal of American History, Volume XLIII, Number 1, June 1956
• МАЛЫЙ АТЛАС МИРА ("Small Atlas of the World"), in Russian
It is rather an eclectic lot, I admit.
Wow, what a variety, and not what most others have. Perhaps you should get your grandkids to help unpack your books.
ReplyDeleteWell, you know me, Lisa. How often do I do what most people do? :)
DeleteI like that idea about getting my grandchildren to help with the boxes, though. But how do I fit that into social distancing?
I see The Library among your collection. I had that book years ago when it was my dream to actually visit the FHL. I've been lucky enough to make many trips there. You have an eclectic mix!
ReplyDeleteI've also been lucky enough to visit the FHL many times. The Mecca for genealogists!
DeleteWhile self-isolating I inventoried my collection of genealogy books, all 90 of them. Then I sent a copy to the librarian of our genealogical society to see if he wants any of them, either now or as a legacy (hopefully much later). Strangely, none of the books you listed are in my collection!
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm surprised that you have only 90 books in your collection! Less surprised that none of the books on my list are in that collection. :) Although I'm sure you do have copies of several other of my books that are still in boxes.
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