Textbooks and Other Learning Resources
Master of Arts in Genealogical Studies
GEN 591: Foundations of Genealogy
Instructor and Author: Dr. Dave McDonald, CG
Required Textbooks:
- Val D. Greenwood, The Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy, Third Edition (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000). ISBN 0-8063-1621-7.
- Donald Lines Jacobus, Genealogy as Pastime and Profession, Second Edition, revised (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968). ISBN 0-8063-0188-0.
- Elizabeth Shown Mills, ed., Professional Genealogy (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001). ISBN 0-8063-1648-9.
- ----------, The Quick Sheet: Citing Online Historical Sources, Evidence Style, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007). ISBN 0-8063-1776-2. [red]
- A bible—preferably in the Revised Standard, New Revised Standard, Jerusalem, or Oxford New English translations.
Additional Texts: (if available, they make excellent additions to a professional genealogist’s library; most should be available through a sound genealogical collection nearby; multimedia may also be procured from a lending library)
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995). GPC now has this set available on CD-ROM.
Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis [three-volume set] (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996). ISBN 0-8063-1496-6. This set is now available on CD-ROM from GPC at quite a reduced cost.
David L. Greene, FASG, and Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, eds., The American Genealogist 72, Nos. 3-4. This particular issue is the 75th Anniversary number and is out-of-print.
Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence Explained: Citing Historical Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007). Undoubtedly, this is a resource that will be used throughout your studies. It is available for internet download in a .pdf file at a significant price reduction.
----------. QuickSheet: Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007). ISBN 0-8063-1749-6. [green]
Stefan Oliver, An Introduction to Heraldry (London: Quantum Books, 1997). ISBN 0-7858-1248-2. This volume may be out-of-print.
Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower (New York: Penguin, 2006). ISBN 0-670-03760-5. This book is very likely now available as a paperback.
The National Genealogical Society Quarterly, specifically: Volume 87, No. 3, “Evidence” [September 1999]. Volume 88, No. 4, “Putting Family History Into Context” [December 2000]. Volume 89, No. 3, “Jefferson-Hemings” [September 2001].
Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009).
Milton Rubincam, ed., Genealogical Research: Methods & Sources, Revised Edition (Washington: American Society of Genealogists, 1979). LC Catalog No. 79-90180.
Frederick A. Virkus, The Compendium of American Genealogy. Available on CD-ROM from Genealogical Publishing Company. *DO NOT* PURCHASE THIS MATERIAL. It is frequently a part of libraries’ genealogical collections; for our purposes, if it cannot be located in print format, pertinent sections can be supplied.
DVD/video: The Lion in Winter, (1968), UPC No. 027616858979 ($11.99 at Barnes & Noble).
Online resources: Free websites
The USGenWeb Project
Cyndi’s List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet
The National Genealogical Society
FamilySearch
Board For Certification of Genealogistis
Daughters of the American Revolution
William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services
Online resources: Commercial websites
ancestry.com
footnote
GenealogyBank.com
NewEnglandAncestors.org
GEN 502: Advanced Land and Property Records (3 credits)
Instructor: Gordon S. Harmon
Required Textbooks:
- Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Editor. Professional Genealogy, A Manual for Researchers, Writers and Editors, Lectures and Librarians. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2001.
- Slade, Carol. Form and Style, Research Papers, Reports and Thesis, 12th Edition. Boston: Houghton Miffin Company, 2001.
Additional Required Readings:
- Hone, E. Wade.Land and Property Research in the United States. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1977.
- Greenwood, Val D. Researcher’s Guide to American Genealogy, 3rd Edition. Chapters 18-19. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000.
- Board of Certification for Genealogist. Rubics. Washington, DC, 2008.
- Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Evidence! Citations and Analysis for the Family Historian. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997).
Supplemental and Suggested Readings
- Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Skillbuilding: Analyzing Deeds for Useful Clues. On Board, Board for Certification of Genealogists, January, 1996.
http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/skbld951.html
- Board of Certification for Genealogists Standards Manual Washington, DC, 2008.
GEN 510: Genealogical Writing Skills (3 credits)
Dr. Carolyn Earle Billingsley, Instructor
Program Director of Genealogical Studies
REQUIRED AND SUGGESTED STUDY MATERIALS:
Resources to purchase or own for your permanent library; every serious genealogist should own or have easy access to the following or be able to find at a local library:
- Billingsley, Carolyn Earle. Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier. University of Georgia Press, 2004.
- Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Available online by subscription (very reasonable) at www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.
- John Philip Colletta, "Building Context around Biographical Facts: A Process Illustrated by the Backcountry," NGSQ, Vol. 88 (December 2000): 293–298. (From the Special Issue—Putting Family History into Context; scan issue.)
- Colletta, “Tracking a Loner on the Move: J. W. Parberry Exposed by the Genealogical Proof Standard,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 93, June 2005: 94–109.
- Colletta, "Developing Family Narrative from Leads in Sources: The Case of James W. and Nancy Parberry," NGSQ, Vol. 94 (March 2006): 23–37.
- Curran, Joan F., Madilyn Coen Crane, and John H. Wray. Numbering Your Genealogy : Basic Systems, Complex Families, and International Kin, rev. ed. Arlington, Va., National Genealogical Society, 2008. [Also available for purchase as PDF file]
- The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America. Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, 2006.
- Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence!: Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.
- ______. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007.
- ______, ed. Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001.
- ______. QuickSheet: Citing Online Historical Resources
Szucs, Loretto Dennis and Sandra Hargreaves Liebking, eds.
- The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy. 1984; 3rd. ed., Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2006.
- Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
NOTE: Form and Style, Research Papers, Reports, Theses, by Carole Slade, 12th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003) is the standard style manual for Akamai University.
NOTE: Genealogy Software, such as Family Tree Maker, can be helpful
NOTE: You must either have a subscription to Ancestry.com or access to it through a library. No serious genealogist today can produce adequate work without using this resource. There are many other subscription databases containing important materials—Footnote.com, WorldVitalRecords, Heritage Quest, and GenealogyBank, for example. Many if not all of these can be accessed free through a local library or archives.
Assuming you are a member of the National Genealogical Society, you can access past articles online through the members-only section.
Resources provided by instructor:
Bibliography: Handouts distributed via email attachment to students or posted to Google Docs.
Historical & genealogical articles from periodicals, provided as needed by instructor
Other articles deemed useful for the student, as required.
GEN 512: Curriculum Development for Genealogy (3 credits)
Instructor: Dr. LaWanna Lease Blount
REQUIRED STUDY MATERIALS:
We will be discussing concepts and issues in the application of foundations and principles of curriculum using the SKPE Program. Please download the SKYPE at www.SKYPE.com. Download and obtain earphones and you will need a microphone.
WITH THE USE OF SKYPE WE CAN TELPHONE FREE OF CHARGE and discuss issues as needed as we work through the course.
Required Textbooks/articles (In order of priority):
- Brady,Laurie, Curriculum Development in Australia, Sydney: Prentice-Hall of Australia, Pty. Ltd. 1983. This is a straightforward practical text for a beginning course in Curriculum Development. Students are expected to buy this book. Used ones very reasonable and available at Amazon.com.
- Nicholls,Audrey and Howard, Developing a Curriculum, A Practical Guide, London: George Allen and Unwin, 1978. Another simple straightforward text for the beginner in curriculum development. Students are expected to buy this book. Used ones available at Amazon.com at a reasonable price.
- Taba,Hilda, Curriculum Development, Theory and Practice. New York: Harcourt Brace and World, N.C. 1962. This book should be in a library in your region. It has several excellent chapters on curriculum organization of content. Chapters 18 through 21.
- Wang,Victor C.X., ed., Curriculum Development for Adult Learners in the Global Community, Volume I, Strategic Approaches, “Principles of Instructional Design,” Ch. 1, pp.7-34.
- Blount, LaWanna Lease, Ph.D., “Determining the Evidence, The Objectives Based Model for Teaching Genealogy," APG Quarterly, December 2008, pp. 181-186. If you do not have this journal or article I will send you a PDF file of the Journal.
- _________________, Why I Became a Professional Genealogist, a Case Study, Bloomington: iUniverse, Inc. (in press, November 2009. ) This study provides the evidence that approximately 50% of the 91 professional genealogists who responded to the questionnaire teach and give presentations.
- Ornstein, Allan C. & Hunkins, Francis B., Chapter 7, Curriculum Development, Foundations, Principles, and Issues., New York: Pearson, Inc.,4th ed. 2004, pp.194-234.
- Mager, Robert, Preparing Instructional Objectives Atlanta: The Center for Effective Performance, Inc., 1997. All genealogists who teach would want this inexpensive book in their library.
- Bloom, Benjamin Ed.,The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives London: Longman Group, Ltd., 1956. (This book should also be in a library in your region.)
Reference Manuals
Slade, Carole, Form and Style, Research Papers-Reports-Theses. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. (twelfth edition or more current edition). This is the Standard Akamai Reference Manual; all students are required to purchase a copy. Besides excellent information on the process of writing research papers. it provides a general introduction to citations, and there are separate chapters on using the Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, APA and CMOS documentation as well as legal writing in research papers. All students will find this manual useful with the sample pages and instructions, when working on their MA thesis.
Turabian,Kate, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982 any of the more recent editions.
Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence, Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian,
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1997.
________________, Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyber Space, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1007.
Supplemental Materials:
Students in this course are encouraged to use many other books on Curriculum Development that are on the market. Visit your local library and Questia Media Library and the Akamai virtual Library to find these Curriculum books.
If you find that you cannot obtain any book even by requesting an interlibrary loan please let me know. Many excellent books in your reading list attached to this syllabus.
SOC 530: Sociology of the Family (3 credits)
Instructor: Dr. LaWanna Lease Blount
REQUIRED TEXTS
Cherlin, Andrew J.,Public and Private Families, An Introduction, Boston: McGraw Hill, fifth edition. 2008. (used available at Amazon.com)
_______________, Public and Private Families, A Reader, Boston: McGraw Hill, Fifth ed., 2008.
________________ , The Marriage Go Round: The State of Marriage and The Family Today, Boston: McGraw Hill, 2009.
Distributed by Instructor
Blount, LaWanna L. "Growing up on a Wisconsin Farm," unpublished paper, 2008.
Slade, Carole, Form and Style, Research Papers, Reports, Theses, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003. Late edition. (used available on Amazon.com ). The standard reference manual for Akamai University.
Additional Reference Manuals:
Mills, Elizabeth Shown, Evidence, Citation and Analysis, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.
_________________, Evidence Explained Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007
Turabian, Kate, L., A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. or (late edition)
SOC 531: History of the Family (3 credits)
Instructor: Dr. LaWanna Lease Blount
Texts are listed in order of priority.
Mintz, Steven and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions, A Social History of American Family Life, New York: The Free Press, 1988. Used ones at Amazon.com
Mintz, Steven, Hucks Raft, A History of American Childhood,Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. You should purchase this book. Used ones available at Amazon
Billingsley, Carolyn Earle,Communities of Kinship, Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
Demos, John, A Little Commonwealth, Family Life in Plymouth Colony,New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Used ones available at Amazon.com.
Hareven, Tamara K., Families, History, and Social Change, Life-Course and Cross-Cultural Perspectives,Boulder: Westview Press, 2000. You should try to obtain this book through interlibrary loan, as we will only be working with Chapter 2. You may also try to obtain the journal article from interlibrary loan: "The Dynamics of Kin in an Industrial Community", appears in American Journal of Sociology, 84, Supplement, 1978.
Reference Manuals.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown,Evidence, Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1997.
________ , Evidence Explained Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2007.
________ ,Quicksheet, Citing Online Historical Resources, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 2007
Slade, Carole,Form and Style, Research Papers, Reports, Theses,Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 or more recent edition. This book is the Akamai Standard Reference Manual.
Turabian, Kate L., A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 2003 or (late edition).
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