Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy is a reference book published by Ancestry Publishing. The first edition was published in 1984 and was edited by Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny. A revised edition, edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, was published in 1997. The current edition, the third, was published in 2006 and was also edited by Szucs and Luebking.
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Critical Reception
When Ancestry published the first edition of The Source in 1984, it quickly became a standard reference in the field of genealogy and family history. That same year, it received the coveted 'Best Reference' award from the American Library Association. The 1997 edition, built upon the foundations laid down by its predecessor, sold more than 100,000 copies. A poll of librarians placed The Source, sometimes referred to as 'the genealogist's bible,' at the top of the 'Top 10 Genealogy Books' for the wealth of information it offers to beginning and experienced genealogists ('Top 10 Genealogy Books,' Family Chronicle 3, no. 3 (January/February 1999): 27'28).
The Source Online
In 2010, Ancestry.com digitized the content of Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources along with The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy and made it available in wiki format as one of the foundational sources for the Ancestry.com Wiki. Each chapter has been broken into one or more series of articles, links to which are found below:
Third Edition Table of Contents
Alabama Family History Research
Alaska Family History Research
Arizona Family History Research
Arkansas Family History Research
California Family History Research
Colorado Family History Research
Connecticut Family History Research
Delaware Family History Research
District of Columbia Family History Research
Florida Family History Research
Georgia Family History Research
Hawaii Family History Research
Indiana Family History Research
Kansas Family History Research
Kantucky Family History Research
Louisiana Family History Research
Maryland Family History Research
Massachusetts Family History Research
Michigan Family History Research
Minnesota Family History Research
Mississippi Family History Research
Missouri Family History Research
Montana Family History Research
Nebraska Family History Research
Nevada Family History Research
New Hampshire Family History Research
New Jersey Family History Research
New Mexico Family History Research
New York Family History Research
North Carolina Family History Research
North Dakota Family History Research
Oklahoma Family History Research
Oregon Family History Research
Pennsylvania Family History Research
Rhode Island Family History Research
South Carolina Family History Research
South Dakota Family History Research
Tennessee Family History Research
Vermont Family History Research
Virginia Family History Research
Washington Family History Research
West Virginia Family History Research
Wisconsin Family History Research
Wyoming Family History Research