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Genealogy Guide: United States

Reference Books

Dollarhide, William.  The Census Book: A Genealogist's Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules, and Indexes. Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 2000. Genealogy Institute  CS49 .D65

Eichholz, Alice. Red Book : American State, County and Town Sources. 3rd ed. Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004. 
Genealogy Institute  CS49 .R44 2004

Greenwood, Val. The Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy. (3rd ed.) Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 2000.
Genealogy Institute  CS47 .G79

Jensen, Howard M. Aid to Finding Addresses in the 1890 New York City Police Census: An Index of All Street Addresses in Manhattan and the West Bronx Found in the 894 Extant Books of the 1890 New York City Police Census. Bowie, MD: Willow Bend, 2003. Genealogy Institute  F128.25 .J46 2003

Lainhart, Ann S.  State Census Records. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Genealogy Institute  Z5313 .U5 L37

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. New York Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer. 1st ed., 2nd printing, with updates. New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2015. Genealogy Institute  F118 .N46 2014

Quillen, W. Mastering Census & Military Records. 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Press, 2013. 
Genealogy Institute  CS47 .Q549 2013