Ongoing research by qualified historians means that new resources are added to our bibliography on a continual basis. Source materials used to research this history have been chosen for their reliability and authenticity. Exaggerated or fictionalized information has been excluded from the scrolls and any information that can be attributed to legend or folklore is clearly stated as such. In general, events and people are only cited if supportive evidence is available.
This bibliography includes the most frequently used sources and is designed as an aid to further your personal research. The following resources directly or indirectly influenced the authors who have compiled the ever-growing library of family histories. Sources are listed by the main nationality for which they are used; however, many books apply to more than one area of research.

BRITAIN

A Constitutional History of Modern England
Age of Conquest – Wales
Agrarian History of England and Wales
An Heraldic Alphabet
An Ordinary of Arms – Scotland
Assize Rolls
Bede's Histories
Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia
Book of Kells
Book of Ulster Surnames
Brights of Suffolk
Burke's Commoners, Landed Gentry, Peerage, and others
Cabinet of Irish Literature, I-III
Catholic Directory for Scotland
Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem
Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands
Court records
Crozier's General Armory
Curia Regis Rolls
Dictionary of Irish History
Domesday Book
Elvin's Mottoes Revised
English Historical Facts 1603-1688
European Society 1500-1700
Falaise Roll
Family Names of County Cork
Fox-Davies various works
General Armoury, Burke's
Highland Clans, Moncreiffe & Hicks
Highland Clearances
History of Congleton
History of England volumes I-VII
History of Scotland, Browne volumes I – VIII
Hundred Rolls
In Search of Your British and Irish Roots
Inquisitio Favidus
International Who's Who
Ireland and her People
Irish Families, MacLysaght
Irish Pedigrees I & II
Kennedy's Book of Arms
Key to Parochial Registers of Scotland
Knights of England
MacLysaght – The Surnames of Ireland
Manorial Rolls
More Irish Families
National Biography
Norton Encyclopedia of Music
Oxford Companion to Sports and Games, John Arlott
Papworth's Ordinary of British Armorials
Pipe Rolls
Regesta Regum Scottorum
Roll of the Battel Abbey
Scotch-Irish I & II
Scots Heraldry, Innes
Scots Kith and Kin
Scottish Clan and Family Names
Scottish Family Histories
Surname dictionaries by Bardsley, Reaney, Lower, Black, Hanks
and Hodges
Tartans of the Clans and families of Scotland
The Angle-Saxon Chronicle
The Celts
The High Kings
The Pictish Chronicle
The Wace Poem
Various Family Genealogies
Various Passenger Lists
Welsh Surnames, Morgan

GERMANY

Abhandlungen zur Namesforschung, Bahlow
Bayerisch Stammenbuch von den alten abgestorbenen Fuerten
Deutsches Namenlexikon, Bahlow
Die lippischen Familiennamen
Familiennamen der Ostschweiz
Familiennamen im badischen Oberland
Familiennamen in Ostfalen
Familiennamen in Tirol
Faenkische Familiennamen
Grosses Wappen Bilder Lexicon
Habsburg Monarchy
Kneschke, Deutsches Adeis Lexicon I-IX
Mecklenburgisches Namenbü chlein, Bahlow
Mittelhochdeutshes Namenbuch nach schlesischen Quellen,
Bahlow
Nebst Tarneller, Tirolen Familiennamen
Niederdeutsche Familiennamen
Oxford Companion to German Literature
Reitstap's Armorials
Scwabische Geschiechisnamen, Kapff
Wuerttemberg Emigration Index

FRANCE / QUEBEC

Ancien Regime
Census Tables for the French Colony of Louisiana From 1699 –
1732
Coming of the French Revolution, The
Complement au Dictionnaire Genealogique Tanguay
Dictionary of Canadian Biographies
Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Francais
French Canadians, The volumes I & II
Genéalogie des Familles de Terrbonne
Genéalogies des Familles de Saint-Simon, 1600-1900
Huguenot Ancestry
La France Moderne-Grand Dictionnaire Genéalogique
La Noblesse aux Etats de Bourgogne de 1350 à 1789, Beaune
et D'Arbaumont
Le Grand Arrangement des Acadiens au Québec
Le livre d'or du Lyonnais
Les Noms de Famille de France, Albert Dauzat
Les Vieux Noms de France, Puymege
Noiliaire de France
Nos Origines en France
Nouvelle Biographie Generale 1850-1860
Oxford Companion to French Literature
Quebec and its Historians
Répertoire des Mariages de L'Ile D'Orléans
Richelieu's Desmarets and the Century of Louis XIV
Various surname dictionaries including works by Dauzat
Who's Who in France

SPAIN / LATIN AMERICA

Apuntes de Nobiliaria y Nociones de Genealogia y Heraldica
Elenco de Grandezas
Encyclopedia of Latin America
Nobiliario Espanol, Julio de Atienza
Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature
South America, Central America and the Caribbean
Who's Who among Hispanic Americans
Y Titulos Nobiliarios Espanoles

CANADA

Canadian Almanac and Directory
Canadian Heraldry
Carleton Saga
Census Records for the 19th Century
Colombo's Canadian Quotations
Cornwall – From Royal Township to Industrial City (Ontario)
Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before
Confederation, Whyte
Families of the South of Bonne Bay
Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland
Loyalists in Ontario, Reid
Old United Empire Loyalists Lists
Scottish Tradition in Canada
Who's Who in Canada

OTHER COUNTRIES

Americans of Royal Descent
Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists
Boltons American Armory
Debretts Texas Peerage
Fatal Shore, Hughes
Irish Emigrant Experience in Australia
Library of Congress American and English Genealogies
Various American Who's Who