New in the Genealogy Center
With books covering all 50 states and beyond, we’re constantly adding to the wealth of resources available to you and your ancestry journey. Take a look at the latest added to the Genealogy collection here on the blog.
General
- American migration routes: Indian paths, post roads, & wagon roads
- Personalities of the South
- Our Quaker ancestors
- “Wasteing my substance by riotous living”: New England runaways, 1778-1783
- Women’s diaries of the Westward journey
- Lay Down Body (African Americans)
- American Scots-Irish research (Irish)
- Irish American ancestors: using US strategies and records to identify origins (Irish)
Texas
- Texas Alpha 100 years of history: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, University of Texas Austin
- Pinch of this and a handful of that: historic recipes of Texas, 1830-1900
- Golden Spread: an illustrated history of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle
- Texas Maker: the heretofore unknown legend of Collin McKinney (Collin County, Texas)
- Journey toward prominence: the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at SMU, 1920-2005
- They came to stay: the story of the Jews of Dallas, 1870-1997
- Terrell tales: stories of the No. 1 BFTS told by students, instructors, and friends (Kaufman County, Texas)
- Lamar County Genealogy and History: Moments in Time, vol. 36, 2018
- Lamar County Genealogy and History: Snippets from a lost year, vol. 39, 2021
- Forever Menard: the lost stories (Menard County, Texas)
- Navarro County history, vol. 5
- Amarillo, Texas: the first hundred years (Potter County, Texas)
- Historic Austin: an illustrated history (Travis County, Texas)
United States
- Fayette County, Alabama index to marriage records, 1850-1970
- Fayette County, Alabama index to wills & estate records, 1850-1970
- Fayette County, Alabama cemetery records
- Goodspeed biographical and historical memoirs of western Arkansas
- Searcy Centennial, 1837-1937: history (White County, Arkansas)
- Greene County Iowa Cemetery Records: from Tomb stone readings of Greene County, Iowa
- Slaves and slave owners: Harford County, Maryland 1814
- Mayflower families in progress: Richard Church and his descendants for four generations
- Minneapolis portrait of the past: a photographic history of the early days in Minneapolis (Hennepin County, Minnesota)
- Six Flags over Mid-America (St. Louis County, Missouri)
- Streets of Elizabeth, New Jersey: an encyclopedia of Elizabethtown, New Jersey Street names and origins (Union County, New Jersey)
- Ring the bells for Olde Pen Aryl (Northampton County, Pennsylvania)
- Roadside history of South Dakota
- Seth Bullock’s the founding of a county (Lawrence County, South Dakota)
- Tennessee Regulars in the War of 1812
- Confederates of Prince Edward County, Virginia and deaths in Farmville Hospital, 1862-1865
Military
- American prisoners of war during the War of 1812: Birth, death, and parole records
- Over the top: veterans of the First World War
Europe
- 600+ wills & administrations of Belize 1750-1800s
- The people of Glasgow and Clydesdale at home and abroad, 1800-1850
- The people of North East Scotland at home and abroad, 1800-1850
- The people of South West Scotland at home and abroad, 1800-1850
- Discovering Irish origins using the records of Ireland
- Researching Scots-Irish ancestors: the essential genealogical guide to early modern Ulster, 1600-1800 (Ireland)
Family Histories
- Ancestors of Frances Maria Goodman (1829-1912) wife of Learner Blackman Harrison
- Montgomerys gone but not forgotten: obituaries, tributes, and editorials
About Genealogy Center
Plano Public Library has a Genealogy Center housed at Haggard Library. See the library website for details of this service including online archives, databases and in-house services. Head straight to our Genealogy Resources page for a list of databases and websites to help reach your ancestry mapping goals.
