Genealogy: Books

This volume provides easy step-by-step instruction for researching slave and free black ancestors pre- and post-Civil War. It introduces a systematic approach that should help eliminate months or years of aimless wondering.

Guide to genealogical research in the National Archives of the United States / edited by Anne Bruner Eales and Robert M. Kvasnicka.

How 19 extraordinary African Americans reclaimed their past

This is a non-circulating government document in the reference section at Delgado's Westbank library.

The land Grant generation, circa 1800 -- The village generation, circa 1825 -- The farm generation, circa 1850 -- The livestock generation, circa 1875 -- The homestead generation, circa 1900 -- The school generation, circa 1925 -- The exodus generation, circa 1950 -- The anglicized generation, circa 1975 -- The present generation, circa 2000 -- The next generation, circa 2025.

Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, first Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives, and images, the current incumbent of the seat, Robert Sackville-West, paints a vivid and intimate portrait of the vast, labyrinthine house and the close relationships his colorful ancestors formed within it.

The Hammill family in Scotland and Ireland -- Charles County, Maryland 1725-1778 -- Prince William County, Virginia 1778-1845 -- Prince William County, Virginia 1845-1896 -- The Hammill family in the far northwest 1880-1928.

Four generations in the life of a Vietnamese family.