NGS Current Publications
Current publications focus on topics of general interest to family historians—from how to start a family search quest, to finding and understanding evidence, to writing a family history. Some of the newer NGS publications are available as downloadable PDF electronic books in addition to traditional print form.
How-to Guides
Old favorites on timeless topics are revised and updated regularly to reflect current standards and new resources, keeping in print valuable guidebooks for researchers.
Numbering Your Genealogy
Numbering Your Genealogy: Basic Systems, Complex Families, and International Kin, by Curran, Coen, and Wray, was updated in 2008 by editor Elizabeth Shown Mills and republished. Order Numbering Your Genealogy from the NGS online store.To learn how to research in a particular state, see the NGS Research in the States series.
NGSQ Reprints
Some theme issues of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly are so popular that NGS makes reprints available for sale as current publications. Examples are:NGSQ: Genealogy and Genetics
NGSQ: Your Family Health History
NGSQ: Law and Genealogy
NGSQ: Reassembling Female Lives
NGSQ: Perspectives on the Family Bible
NGSQ: NGS Centennial, Special Edition (2003)
Limited numbers of some back issues of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly are also available for purchase. To order any of the above special issues or other back issues, check the NGS online store. Don't forget—NGS members receive a discount on purchases.
