New Arrivals

This is a list of new books recently added to the genealogy collection at the Santa Clara Public Library.

New books are first displayed on the shelves facing the computers next to the Heritage Pavilion. After a month or two, the books are moved to the open shelves at the appropriate number. If the book you are looking for is not on the New Book Shelf, check the return cart, the open shelves, and the catalog to see if it is checked out.

Revised October 2025

2025

  • Tracing Our Roots Reclaiming Our Legacy: An Essential Guide to African American Genealogy, Heritage Travel, and Heritage Preservation; Rahman, Dr. Alisha LaDon Abdul
  • My Best Genealogy Tips: Finding Formerly Enslaved Ancestors; Foster, Robin R.; 929.1072 F75
  • Researching One’s Chinese Roots in Hawaii; Lai
  • Tracing Your Cherokee Roots: Updated Edition: A Guide to Discovering Your Cherokee Ancestor; Reece, Joseph Robert
  • Discover Your Hispanic Heritage; Flores, Norma P
  • How Our Ancestors Died: A Guide for Family Histories; Wills, Simon
  • A Practical Guide to Swedish Church Records; Morris, Geoffery Froberg
  • Explore your Swedish Heritage; Skogsjo, Hakan
  • Exploring Norwegian Genealogy; Christensen, Liv Brigit
  • German Immigrants in American Church Records vol 17, 41-45

Older acquisitions

2024
  • Mayflower Families Vol 1; GR 929.2 K29 V 1
  • Mayflower Families Vol 3; GR 929.2 K29 V 3
  • Delving into My Bitterroots: How I Resurrected My Enslaved Ancestor, Granvill, and So, Can you
  • Research In the District of Columbia; 929.3753 S27
  • Roots for Kids: Finding your Family Stories; Beller, Susan Provost; Juv 929.1 B44
  • Roots for Kids: A Genealogy Guide for Young People, Susan Provost; Juv 929.1
  • German Immigrants In American Church Records, vol 16, 18, 26-40
  • A to Zax: A Comprehensive Dictionary for Genealogists & Historians; Evans, Barbara Jean; GR 929.103 E92
  • DNA and Genealogy Research: Simplified; Szabados, Stephen; 929.1072 S99
  • DNA Q&A: Real questions from Real People About Genetic Genealogy; Lee, Andrew; 929.102 L47
  • Find your Czech and Slovak Ancestors; Szabados, Stephen; 929.3437 S99
  • Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist’s Guide; Elder, Diana; 929.1072 E37
  • Research Like A Pro with DNA: A Genealogist’s Guide to Finding and Confirming Ancestors with DNA Evidence; Elder, Diana; 929.1072 E37
  • A Guide to Chicago and Midwestern Polish-American Genealogy; Kruski, Jason; 929.348 K94
  • Your DNA Guide, The Book; Southland, Diahan; 929.1072 S72
  • Your Swedish Roots: A Step by Step Handbook; Clemensson, Per; 929.3485 C62
  • The Genealogist’s Guide to Y-DNA Testing for Genetic Genealogy; Vance, J. David; 929.1072 V22
  • Gleanings From Rhode Island Town Records: South Kingstown Town Council Records, 1743-1772; GS 929.3745 M42
  • Beginners Guide to Get Started With Your Family Genealogy; Family Tree; 929.1072 B41
  • Essential Skills for the Occasional Genealogist: Beyond beginner Genealogy; Patterson Dondero, Jennifer; 929.1 D67
  • Roots and Branches: A Guide to Building Your Family Genealogy Tree; Lefemine, James; 929.1 L48
  • More Genealogy Tip of the Day; Neill, Michael John; 929.1 L41
  • Getting the Most Out of Roots Magic 10; Buzbee, Bruce; 929.1028 B99
  • World War I Genealogy Research Guide: Tracing American Military and non-Combatant Ancestors, 3rd ed; Dedek, Debra M
  • Big Basin Redwood Forest: California’s Oldest State Park; Bliss, Traci; 979.471 B64
  • California Ranchos, Second ed.; Burgess, Michael and Mary Wickizer
2022
  • Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation; by Maud Newton; 929.2 N56
  • Baptism index of the German church records, Lutheran and Reformed of Fayette County and Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1783-1806; by Paul Miller Ruff; 929.3748 R92 Index
  • Berks County, Pennsylvania church records of the 18th century. Volume 4; by F. Edward Wright; GS 929.3748 W94 v.4
  • Butler County, the second hundred years; by Ralph Goldinger; 974.891 G61
  • DNA for Native American genealogy; by Roberta Estes; 929.1072 E79
  • Early history of western Pennsylvania : western Pennsylvania pensioners for Revolutionary services rejected and suspended pension applications of western Pennsylvania residents, especially edited for inclusion in this reprint; 974.8 E12
  • French Canadian sources : a guide for genealogists; 929.3714 F87
  • Frontier ways : sketches of life in the old West; by Edward Everett Dale; 978.02 D13
  • The Germans in colonial times; by Lucy Forney Bittinger; GS 973.0431 B62
  • Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska Civil War veterans : compilation of the death rolls of the departments of Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, Grand Army of the Republic, 1883-1948; by Dennis Northcott; 973.76 N87
  • Keeping house : women’s lives in western Pennsylvania, 1790-1850; by Virginia K Bartlett; 929.3748 B29
  • The land laws of Pennsylvania; by Thomas Sergeant; 929.3748 S48
  • List of free African Americans in the American Revolution : Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware : (followed by the French and Indian Wars and colonial militias); by Paul Heinegg; 929.375 H46
  • Macon County, Illinois, inscriptions, Decatur Greenwood Cemetery; 929.3773 D29
  • Monroe County, Ohio newspaper abstracts : 8 March 1844 – 25 August 1852; by Rita A. Bone Kopp; 929.3771 K83
  • Monroe County, Ohio newspaper abstracts : The spirit of democracy, 7 January 1868 – 31 May 1870 and 7 June 1870 – 31 December 1892; by Rita A. Bone Kopp; 929.3771 K83
  • Monroe County, Ohio newspaper abstracts : Woodsfield Republican, 14 September – 21 September 1860, and the Spirit of democracy, 31 December 1862-31 December 1867; by Rita A. Bone Kopp; 929.3771 K83
  • The New Hampshire genealogical record. whole no. 125, Winter 2022, vol. 34, no. 1; 929.3742 N53 2022
  • Overland to California with the Pioneer Line : the gold rush diary of Bernard J. Reid; by Bernard J. Reid; 978.02 R35
  • Passenger and immigration lists index. Supplement; GR 929.373 F47
  • Pioneer life in western Pennsylvania; by J. E. Wright; 974.8 W95
  • Power of the spirit : a Portuguese journey of building faith and churches in California; by Joe Machado; 979.4 M149 Records of pastoral acts at the Lutheran and Reformed congregations of the Muddy Creek Church, East Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1730-1790; GS 929.3748 R311
  • Reproduction map of Butler County, Pennsylvania 1858; by Violet M Covert; 929.3748 C87
  • Researching Scots-Irish ancestors : the essential genealogical guide to early modern Ulster, 1600-1800; by William J. Roulston; 929.1 R859
  • Santa Clara Valley : images of the past; by Donald O. DeMers, Jr; GR 979.473 D37
  • Scottish genealogy : the basics and beyond; by David Dobson; 929.3411 D63
  • Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church family album; GR 285.0979 P92 2009
  • Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church family album; GR 285.0979 P92 2013
  • U.S. military records : a guide to federal and state sources, colonial America to the present; by James C Neagles; GR 929.1 N33
  • A Vestibule to heaven : Five Wounds Portuguese National Parish; by Miguel Valle Ávila; 263.0979 A95
  • Worsham & Washam family history; by Dorothy G Tuttle; 929.2 W93
  • 16 x Mom : sixteen children : inspiring and compelling life story : Mom, Rose; by Barbara Olivo Cagle; 929.2 OL49 Case
  • California pioneer register and index, 1542-1848 : including Inhabitants of California, 1769-1800, and List of pioneers; by Hubert Howe Bancroft; 979.4 B21 Case