(See "3 Best Books" page for the most important history books for Bucklin researchers.)

Genealogy books that will help you!

RootsMagic.  If you want genealogy help organizing your family data,  this is what we recommend. Buy the genealogy computer program and the genealogy books recommended on this page.  If you only buy one thing, buy the RootsMagic genealogy computer program. (We think it is the easiest one to use, but it has lots of advanced features.) At the Joseph Bucklin Society, we have tried many genealogy computer programs throughout 30 plus years of using computers for genealogical research and preservation of data. RootsMagic is a "best choice".

RootsMagic is easy to understand and use.
It is extremely powerful, able to grow with you, even through years of research and even if you enter thousands of persons and facts about them.
RootsMagic  will let you input all sorts and amounts of data.
RootsMagic will give you organized family history printouts from your bits of information.
It is the best way to organize what you do have
It is the best way to add new information as you get more facts.
RootsMagic is what we use at the Society.

For books to read about general genealogy---the Joseph Bucklin Society recommends the following titles, in association with Amazon.com. 

More helpful books are listed below.  Order by clicking on the links. 

The Complete Beginner's Guide to Genealogy, the Internet and Your Genealogy Computer Program, by Karen Clifford.  This is a manual to show you how to get started in your family history research, how to enter information into a genealogy computer program so that you can easily manage, store, and retrieve your data; and how to organize and present your information for others.   This book contains guidelines for using public libraries and archives, and is the most complete of the many guides.  It is also great for experienced researchers.  Cost is about $25 using our link to Amazon above.

If you want a more elementary  beginning book on how to research and assemble the facts on your ancestors Family History Made Easy : A Step-By-Step Guide to Discovering Your Heritage by Loretto Dennis Szucs. is a fun and easy read, and is very inexpensive.  (This link to Amazon will show the book as not yet published, but it has been, just order it, even if the Amazon page for the book says it is not yet published.)

Cyndi's List: a Comprehensive List of Genealogy Links on the Internet .  Over 40,000 genealogy links in a book format!  If you want to search the internet, this is the list from which to launch your web surfing.

Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.: Three Generations of Settlers before 1690. Austin, John Osborne.  Albany, N.Y., 1887 ; reprint ed. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1978.

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