Books & Articles Published by Certified Genealogists — 2025 (July – December)

BCG associates prepare and present the free monthly webinars sponsored by BCG through Legacy Family Tree Webinars. They present lectures and workshops at both virtual and in-person events, and they write for scholarly journals.

These books, articles, and case studies offer a unique and permanent record of the methodology, research process, record sets, and writing skills used to solve difficult genealogical problems. They are invaluable to the family historian as guideposts to solving similar problems of identity, location, parentage, and relationships.

Anderson, Pam Pracser. “It’s a Family Affair: Tracking James P. Walters of New York, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (December 2025): 295–312.

Andrews, Jean Atkinson. “A Life Reclaimed: Joshua Atkinson (1774–1852), Maryland to Indiana.” Maryland Genealogical Society Journal 65, no. 2 (2024): 245–286.

Boumenot, Diane MacLean. “Family Ties Identify Parents for Edward Baldwin of Townsend, Massachusetts, and Amity, New York.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (December 2025): 245–264.

Bush, Pamelyn P. "A Mysterious Bishop of Salem County; Correcting a Craig Presumption." Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 100, no. 1 (2025): 3–14.

Carter, Kimball G. “Creating Maps to Complement Research, Step by Step.” NGS Magazine 51 (July–September 2025): 26–31.

Cross, Denise E. “The Massachusetts Origins of Jonas Brooks of Sudbury, Vermont, and Malone, New York. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 156 (October 2025): 295–302.

Cross, Denise E. “Mortgage Deeds Lodged in Grand Committee, 1787, Town of Newport." Rhode Island Roots 51 (December 2025): 206–209.

Daniel, Karen Stein. “Jim Miller, Apache Scout: Using Military Pension Records as a Research Tool.” New Mexico Genealogist 64 (June 2025): 52–58.

Fonkert, J. H. “Kentucky and Virginia Records Reveal the Parents of John and Ann S. Stephens of Monroe County, Missouri.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (September 2025): 179–195.

Fonkert, J. H. "North Sea Island to Midwest Prairie: Terschellingers to Illinois and Iowa." Generations 56  (Fall 2025): 16–21.

Georgas, Theodore. "Dr. Frederick Charles Hageman and The Midnight Raid." The Quarterly Journal of the Illinois State Genealogical Society 57 (Fall 2025): 170–174.

Graham, Paul K. “Joseph Lyon of Laurens District, South Carolina, and the Lyon House of DeKalb County, Georgia: A Corrected History.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (September 2025): 197–211.

Green, Shannon. “The 1784 Tax Lists for Queens County, New York.” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record156 (July 2025): 186–234.

Green, Shannon. “The 1786 Tax List for Newtown, Queens County, New York.” New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 156 (October 2025): 303–311.

Green, Shannon. “Stephen Hicks of Flushing, Queens County, New York: Identifying His Children Through Uncommon Sources." National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (September 2025): 165–178.

Hill, Ronald A. “The Descendants of the Audridge/Autridge Family of Michaelstow in Cornwall.” The Genealogist 39 (Fall 2025): 222–246.

Jones, Thomas with Roderick E. Mitchell. “Mixed-Race Heritage Rediscovered: DNA Leads to Mitchell and Overton Roots in Greene County, Georgia.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (December 2025): 265–278.

Little, Barbara Vines. “From the Records: The Story of Indian Joe, His Mother Priss, and His Siblings.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 63 (February 2025): 5–13.

Little, Barbara Vines. “Papers of Edward Dixon, Merchant, of Carolina County.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 63 (May 2025): 141–150.

Little, Barbara Vines. A Researcher’s Guide to Virginia’s Historical Records. Orange, Virginia: Virginia Genealogical Society: 2025.

Little, Barbara Vines. “Sorting Out Some of the Herndons of Virginia Phase One: The Family of James and Valentine (Haley) Herndon.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 63 (August 2025): 231–238.

Little, Barbara Vines. "Sorting Out Some of the Herndons of Virginia, Phase Two: Joseph Herndon of Fluvanna, Lost a Father and Gained a Wife." Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 63 (November 2025): 287–306.

Lyttle, Annette Burke. “Parents for Tillie: Matilda Adelheit (Cigrand) Little of Putnam County, Ohio, and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (December 2025): 279–294.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Your Stripped Bare Guide to Citing & Using History Sources: The Briefcase Edition of Evidence Explained: Citing Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2025.

Oneto, Piper R. "The Aste Family of Camogli, Liguria, Italy, and Hoboken, New Jersey." Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 100, no. 3 (2025): 131–153.

Palmer, Dana Ann. Ultimate Guide to Mastering FamilySearch. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 2025.

Peterson, Allen R. “Tristam⁴ Stafford of Derbyshire, England: Adventurer With Sir Walter Ralegh in Guiana.” The Genealogist 39 (Fall 2025): 202–221.

Posz, Darcie Hind. “Earlier Migrations of Poverty: Verifying the Parentage of Asa Chamberlain, ‘Native of South-Borough.’” The Genealogist 39 (Fall 2025): 266–279.

Ramage, Michael S and Catherine B. W. Desmarais. Forensic Genealogy: Theory and Practice. Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical Society, 2025. 

Saxbe, William B. “Three Cary Brothers, Three Ohio Counties: Part Two: Their Father’s Ancestry.” The Genealogist 39 (Fall 2025): 247–265.

Schott, Carolyn. “Finding the Father of Katharina Bohlander, a Black Sea German.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 113 (September 2025): 213–230.

Slater, Dawne. "The Bassett Family: Free Black Settlers in the Midwest Prior to the Civil War." Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Journal 44 (Summer 2025): 53-83.

Wilcox, Shirley. "Theophilus Neathery: One Arm, Six Wives, and a Herd of Goats." The California Nugget 18 (Fall 2025): 18-25.

Wood, Derek Doran. "Mary Stanton and Her Husband, Colonel Nathan Babcock of Westerly, Rhode Island." Rhode Island Roots 51 (December 2025): 189-202.

Zinck, Jennifer. “Using Logic in Genealogical Research.” NGS Magazine 51 (July–September 2025): 13–18.