(See "Bucklin
Roots" page
for the most important history books for Bucklin researchers.)
Genealogy Research Help!
Suggestions for Persons New to Researching Their Family
If you want genealogy help organizing your family
data, this is what we recommend: the genealogy computer program and the
genealogy books recommended on this page.
 RootsMagic. If you only
buy only one thing to help you with researching and recording what you find
about your family --- buy the RootsMagic computer program.
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.
RootsMagic is the
easiest way to record your
information. as you find it.
RootsMagic will
let you input all sorts and amounts of data. Even photos and documents can
be "attached" to a persons.
RootsMagic will
organize (and display) your family history from your bits of information.
RootsMagic is powerful, able to grow with you, even through years of
research and even if you enter hundreds of persons and thousands of facts about them.
Awarded "Editor's Choice" by Heritage Quest
Magazine. RootsMagic is an easy to use family tree program with extensive
family history reports, multiple navigation views, photos, publishing, and
website creation features. RootsMagic supports unlimited people, families,
events, notes, and photos. Users can print complete books (where the
program writes the sentences for each event), spectacular charts, forms,
lists, and even create custom reports. Create shareable CDs of your data and photos to send to
your family and friends.
Helpful books are listed below.
Karen Clifford is a renowned professional genealogist and instructor on
genealogy research. Her guidebook is 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. (Despite its
subtitle, it is not a guide for using the internet, unless you are a novice
on using your owns computer.)
Books
about using the internet become dated quickly, but Crowe's book is very
recent and is written so that it should stand the test of being able to be
used for a decade. This is written for beginners using the internet
for genealogy research, but even experienced researchers will benefit from
some of Crowe's lists of internet resources.
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