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These are some of the books we have found that are related to genealogy. Please come back often and visit for updates. If you have suggestions for other books or for improvements to our bookshelf, please let us know.

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Genealogy for Kids:

Genealogy is a great subject for kids, it teaches them about history, family, culture and it's fun!

All About Me: A Keepsake Journal for Kids

More About Me: Another Keepsake Journal for Kids

Climb Your Family Tree : A Genealogy Detective's Kit

Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Off-line Genealogy for KidsGreat for beginners of all ages.

If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island

My Family Tree Workbook : Genealogy for Beginners

Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors

Who's Who in My Family?

The Italian American Family Album (The American Family Albums)

Genealogy and computers:

These books to help you use your computer for doing your genealogy research.

Finding Your Roots Online

Genealogy Online, 7th Edition

Online Roots: How to Discover Your Family's History and Heritage

Planting Your Family Tree Online

The Genealogists Computer Companion

Digitizing Your Family History

The Unofficial Guide to Online Genealogy

Genealogy Online for Dummies

The Internet for Genealogists : A Beginner's Guide (4th Edition)

Netting Your Ancestors : Genealogical Research on the Internet

The Everything Online Genealogy Book

Plugging into Your Past: How to Find Real Family History Records Online

The Official Guide To Family Tree Maker 2005

The Official Guide To Family Tree Maker 2006

Virtual Roots 2.0: A Guide to Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web

Genealogy for Beginners:

These books explain in simple terms how to get started with your research.

Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family's History and Heritage

First Steps in Genealogy: A Beginner's Guide to Researching Your Family History

How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy

Organizing Your Family History Search:
Efficient & Effective Ways to Gather and Protect Your Genealogical Research

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy (Complete Idiot's Guide To...)

The Everything Family Tree Book; Finding, Charting, and Preserving

The Organized Family Historian

The Weekend Genealogist: Timesaving Techniques for Effective Research

To Our Children's Children : Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come

Unpuzzling Your Past : A Basic Guide to Genealogy

The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook : Essential Forms and Letters for all Genealogists

Your Guide to the Family History Library
Time saving tips for using the Salt Lake City Family History Center

They Came in Ships : A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Ship

This author also wrote Finding Italian Roots : The Complete Guide for Americans

They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins

Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway

Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources

Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures

Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian

Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists: The Essential Guide to American County and Town Sources

Finding Answers in U.S. Census Records

Hidden Sources

Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical Records

The Family Tree Problem Solver: Proven Methods for Scaling the Inevitable Brick Wall

The Handybook for Genealogists : United States of America

The Source : A Guidebook of American Genealogy

Your Guide to Cemetery Research

Journals and Memory Books:

Once you have gathered your data, it's nice to make keepsake books to preserve the information

Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs

Preserving Your Family Photographs:
How to Organize, Present, and Restore Your Precious Family Images

Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents

Saving Stuff : How to Care for and Preserve Your Collectibles,
Heirlooms, and Other Prized Possessions

Family Tree Page Ideas For Scrapbookers

The Complete Guide to Creating Heritage Scrapbooks

Creating Keepsakes Scrapbooking Family Heritage

Crafting Your Own Heritage Album

Scrapbooking Your Family History

Producing a Quality Family History

You Can Write Your Family History

The Book of Myself : A Do-It-Yourself Autobiography in 201 Questions

Grandmother Remembers a Written Heirloom for My Grandchild

The Grandparents' Treasure Chest:
A Journal of Memories to Share with Your Grandchildren

History of Our Family

Our Family History

Our Family Treasury

Our Family Tree

Our Family Tree Record Book

Italian Topics:

PIE is a mailing list for Italian Genealogy but also includes discussions on food, culture and customs of Italy.

Cooking and culture:

PIE list members, like all good Italians, love to talk about food. Here's just a few cookbooks to get you started in case you get hungry while you are reading messages. Food is an important part of Italian culture. Whether you call it sauce or gravy enjoy!

The Authentic Italian Kitchen : Pasta

Bruculinu, America : Remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn,
Told in Stories and Recipes

Bugialli's Italy : Traditional Recipes from the Regions of Italy

Cucina Di Calabria: Treasured Recipes and Family Traditions from Southern Italy

Cucina Siciliana

Eat This Too : It'll Also Make You Feel Better

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

The Fine Art of Italian Cooking

Italian-American : The Scorsese Family Cookbook

Italian Cooking for Dummies (For Dummies)

Molto Italiano 327 Simple Italian Recipes

Papa Andrea's Sicilian Table:
Recipes and Remembrances of My Grandfather

Sicilian Feasts

The Silver Spoon - the most influential and successful cookbook in Italy.

The Talisman Italian Cookbook: Italy's bestselling cookbook adapted for American kitchens

Italian Genealogy:

Here's some books that are specific to doing research on your Italian roots.

Finding Italian Roots : The Complete Guide for Americans
- John Philip Colletta also wrote They Came in Ships

A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Italian Ancestors:
How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage

Italian Genealogical Records -This book by Trafford R. Cole
is considered by many to a primary reference for Italian genealogy research.

Italian-American Family History :
A Guide to Researching and Writing About Your Heritage

Our Italian Surnames
Special Order item

Travel Help

Rick Steves' Italian Phrase Book & Dictionary

Webster's New World Italian Dictionary: Italian/English, English/Italian

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Italian Phrases

Sicilian-English/English-Sicilian Dictionary and Phrasebook

Italian for Dummies (With CD-ROM)

Fodor's Italian for Travelers (CD Package)

The Marling Menu-Master for Italy:
A Comprehensive Manual for Translating
the Italian Menu into American-English

Eating & Drinking in Italy:
Italian Menu Reader and Restaurant Guide - 4th edition

Italy for the Gourmet Traveler

Eating in Italy: A Traveler's Guide to
the Hidden Gastronomic Pleasures of Northern Italy

Italy Laminated Map

Michelin Italy Map

Michelin the Green Guide Italy

Michelin Red Guide 2006 Italia: Hotels & Restaurants

Italy (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Rick Steves' Italy 2006

Rick Steves' Italy 2007 - pre-order now

Fodor's Italy 2007 - available now

Frommer's Italy 2006

Frommer's Italy 2007 - available now

The Rough Guide to Italy

Frommer's Italy's Best-Loved Driving Tours

Italy: A Complete Guide to 1,000 Towns and Cities
and Their Landmarks, with 80 Regional Tours

Living, Studying, and Working in Italy

Rome (Eyewitness Travel)

Rick Steves' Rome 2007 - available now

Rick Steves' Venice 2006

Rick Steves' Venice 2007 - available now

Venice for Pleasure

Insideout Venice

Streetwise Venice

Florence & Tuscany (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Rick Steves' Florence and Tuscany 2006

Rick Steves' Florence and Tuscany 2007 - available now

Insideout Florence

Streetwise Florence

Fodor's Naples, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast

Naples & the Almalfi Coast (Eyewitness)

Sicily (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

Frommer's Sicily

Sicily: A Complete Guide to the Island

Rick Steves Best of Travels in Europe - Italy - DVD

Visions of Italy DVD

My Voyage to Italy DVD

Immigration, History and Traditions

A Concise History of Italy

Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy

Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us

Boston's North End: Images and Recollections of an Italian-American Neighborhood

Brunelleschi's Dome

In the Shadow of Vesuvius : A Cultural History of Naples

Italian Renaissance Art

Italians in Chicago

Italians in New Orleans

La Storia: Five Centuries of the Italian American Experience

Little Novels of Sicily - first published in 1883

Learning to Forget: Schooling and Family Life
in New Haven's Working Class, 1870-1940
- includes analysis of Italian Americans in New Haven

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

Passage to Liberty:
The Story of Italian Immigration and the Rebirth of America

Sicily: An Illustrated History

The Golden Milestone: Over 2500 Years of Italian Contributions to Civilization

The Italian American Family Album (The American Family Albums)

The Italian Renaissance

The Italians

Una Storia Segreta :
The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation
and Interment During World War II

More Books

A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988

A Thousand Days in Tuscany

A Thousand Days in Venice

Calabrian Tales

Christ in Concrete

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Dances with Luigi : A Grandson's Search for His Italian Roots

Don't Tell Mama!: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing

Extra Virgin: A Young Woman Discovers the Italian Riviera

Florence: A Portrait

From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana

Growing Up Italian in Chicago

In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu

Italian-American Folklore

Italian Days

Italian Education - same author as Italian Neighbors

Italian Neighbors - reflections of living in Italy today

Italian Pride: 101 Reasons to Be Proud You're Italian

Italy and Its Discontents: Family, Civil Society, State 1980-2001 -
written by the same author as A History of Contemporary Italy

Living la Dolce Vita: Bring the Passion, Laughter
and Serenity of Italy into Your Daily Life

Midnight in Sicily

Miracle at St. Anna - set in the village of St. Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany.

On Persephone's Island : A Sicilian Journal

Pietro's Book : The Story of a Tuscan Peasant

Rosa: The Life of an Italian Immigrant

Seasons in Basilicata

Sicilian Odyssey

Sometimes I Dream in Italian

The Authentic Story of Pinocchio of Tuscany

The City of Falling Angels

The Dark Heart of Italy

The Fortunate Pilgrim - Mario Puzo

The Hills of Tuscany

The Italian American Reader: A Collection of Outstanding Stories,
Memoirs, Journalism, Essays, and Poetry

The Italian Way

The Last Cannoli

The Leopard

The Miracles of Santo Fico: A Novel

The Reluctant Tuscan

The Stone Boudoir: Travels through the Hidden Villages of Sicily

The Stones of Florence

Too Much Tuscan Sun : Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide

Umbertina : A Novel

Under the Southern Sun

Under the Tuscan Sun

Unto the Sons

Vanilla Beans And Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany

Vita: A Novel (English translation)

Were You Always an Italian?:
Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America

Mysteries:

Aurelio Zen series:
Ratking (Aurelio Zen series)
Vendetta (Aurelio Zen series)
Cabal : Aurelio Zen Series
Dead Lagoon (Aurelio Zen)
Cosi Fan Tutti (Aurelio Zen)
A Long Finish (Aurelio Zen)
Blood Rain (Aurelio Zen)

Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries:
Through a Glass Darkly -pre-order now May 06
Acqua Alta
Blood from a Stone
Death At La Fenice
Death in a Strange Country
Doctored Evidence
Dressed for Death
A Noble Radiance
Uniform Justice
Wilful Behaviour

Inspector Montalbano Mysteries:
Excursion to Tindari (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery)
The Smell of the Night (An Ispector Montalbano Mystery)
Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)
The Terra-Cotta Dog: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery
The Shape of Water (An Ispector Montalbano Mystery)

DVD Movies:

Cinema Paradiso DVD

Il Postino DVD

Italians in America - Our Contribution DVD

Life Is Beautiful DVD

The Bicycle Thief DVD

Italians to America Series (20 Volumes):

"A reference series that contains passenger list information in chronological order on the first major wave of Italian migration to the US during the last two decades of the 19th century."

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York January 1880 - December 1884 (Vol 1)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York, January 1885-June 1887 (Vol 2)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899: Passengers Arriving at New York July 1887-June 1889 (Vol 3)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899: Passengers Arriving at New York July 1889-October 1890 (Vol 4)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York November 1890-December 1891 (Vol 5)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York, January 1892-December 1892 (Vol 6)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York, January 1893-September 1893 (Vol 7)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York October 1893-May 1895 (Vol 8)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York June 1895-June 1896 (Vol 9)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York July 1896-June 1897 (Vol 10)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York July 1897- May 1898 (Vol 11)

Italians to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, 1880-1899 : Passengers Arriving at New York May 1898-April 1899 (Vol 12)