📚 Genealogy

Family research as a craft: parish registers, census sheets, and the databases that turned it into a hobby industry.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject genealogy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The History of England from the accession of James the Second	Thomas Babington Macaulay	1800	214
	The peerage of England	Collins, Arthur	1709	25
	A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland	John Burke Esq.	1846	22
	Historical Southern Families	John Bennett Boddie	1957	12
	Genealogies of the families of Chezzetcook, N.S	F. J. Melanson	1981	12
	How to Argue With a Racist	Adam Rutherford	2020	10
	Ship Passenger Lists	Carl Boyer 3rd	1977	8
	Magna Carta ancestry	Douglas Richardson	2005	7
	A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England	Savage, James	1860	6
	A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland	Sir Bernard Burke	1899	6
	Me and My Family Tree (Me)	Joan Sweeney	1999	6
	A seed-bed of the Republic	Robert Douthat Stoner	1962	5
	Passports of Southeastern Pioneers, 1770-1823	Dorothy Williams Potter	1982	5
	A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation	Donald Whyte	1986	5
	Genealogías de Antioquia y Caldas	Gabriel Arango Mejía	1932	4
	A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the U.S.A.	Donald Whyte	1972	4
	Ancestral lines	Carl Boyer 3rd	1975	4
	A través de las centurias	José María Valdés Acosta	1923	3
	The Tenmile country and its pioneer families	Howard L. Leckey	1950	3
	Algunas familias maracaiberas	Kurt Nagel von Jess	1969	3
	The Stepp/Stapp families of America	Henry Preston Scalf	1974	3
	Founders of early American families	Meredith B. Colket	1975	3
	Burke's Irish Family Records	Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd	1976	3
	The Maxeys of Virginia	Edythe Maxey Clark	1980	3
	Genealogy of the French families of the Detroit River region, revision, 1701-1936	Christian Denissen	1982	3
	A family called Craft	Joella Craft Collier	1985	3
	Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830	David Dobson	1986	3
	Historial genealógico de familias caroreñas	Ambrosio Perera	1933	2
	Mabou pioneers	A. D. MacDonald	1950	2
	Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia - Vol 2	Folks Huxford	1951	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 07 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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