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Lending Library

For Members: Our Lending Library is a small collection of borrowable books. Check out the items available, listed below:

Reference Books & Research Guides

  • The Complete Book of Emigrants 1661-1699 | by Peter Wilson Coldham

  • The Complete Book of Emigrants 1700-1750 | by Peter Wilson Coldham

  • Printed Sources: A Guide to Genealogy Records | by Kory L. Meyerlink

  • Map Guide to the U.S. Censuses 1790-1920 | by William Thorndale

  • Land and Property in the U.S. | by E. Wade Hone

  • Index to American Genealogies with Supplement | by Munsell

  • Tracing Your Irish Ancestors | by John Grenham

  • 500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems | by Moorshead Magazine
  • Complete Idiot’s Guide to Genealogy  |  by Christine Rose & Kay Germain Ingalls
  • Dozens of Cousins: Blue Genes, Horse Thieves, and Other Relative Surprises in Your Family Tree  |  by Lois Horowitz
  • Finding Your Roots  |  by Jeane Eddy Westin
  • New World Immigrants Vol. 1 | by Michael Tepper
  • Land and Property Research | by E. Wade Hone

Non-Fiction

  • Reunited - An Investigative Genealogist Unlocks Some of Life’s Greatest Mysteries | by Pamela Slaton with Samantha Marshall

  • Annie’s Ghosts | by Steve Luxenberg

  • Paper and Spit - Family Found: How DNA and Genealogy Revealed my First Parents Identity | by Don Anderson

  • Swabbed and Found – An Adopted Man’s DNA Journey to Discover His Family Tree | by Frank Billingsley

  • Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love | by Julie Klam

  • Buried Secrets of the Copper Locket | by D. L. Bush

  • Reunion: A Search for Ancestors | by Ryan Littrell

  • Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family | by Rachel  Jamison Webster

  • The 13 Original Clan Mothers | by Jamie Sams

  • Family Medical History: Unknown/Adopted | by Nancy Kacirek and Rebecca Crofoot

  • Torn Lilacs: a World War II Story of Love, Defiance and Hope | by Henry MichalskiAlex Tres

  • The Soul of the Family Tree | by Lori Erickson

  • The Foundling | by Paul Joseph Franczak and Alex Tresniowski

  • In Search of William Wolfskill | by Craig A. Steffen

  • A Broken Tree: How DNA Exposed a Family Secret | by Stephen P. Anderson

  • Finding Family  |  by Richard Hill

  • Murder and Mayhem in the Napa Valley | by Todd L. Shulma

  • Betty Lou | by Steven Phillips

  • OB Diary: Ocean Beach in the Longhorn Years | by Steven Phillips

  • Unlocking Your Genetic History | by Thomas H. Shawker

  • The Lost Fifty-Seven | by Ron Williams

  • Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases | by Paul Holes

  • I Know Who you Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever | by Barbara Rae-Ventor

Fiction

  • Death in Reel Time | by Brynn Bonner
  • Paging the Dead | by Brynn Bonner
  • The Family Tree | by Carole Cadwalladr
  • Only a Few Bones | by John Philip Colletta

  • Irish Inheritance | by Paula Martin

  • Isle of Canes | by Elizabeth Shawn Mills

  • Death Finds a Way | by Lorine McGinnis Schulze

By Nathan Dylan Goodwin:

  • The Foundlings
  • The Wicked Trade and the Suffragette's Secret
  • The Sawtooth Slayer
  • Hiding the Past
  • The Orange Lillies
  • The Lost Ancestor
  • The American Ground
  • The Sterling Affair
  • The Missing Man
  • The Spyglass File
  • The Hollywood Strangler

 

See all books available for members to borrow: Visit our library soon!


 

Napa Valley Genealogical Society

Library & Mailing Address:

1701 Menlo Ave

Napa, CA 94558

Corner of California Blvd and Menlo Ave
Street parking  |  Main entrance on Sonoma St

Info@NapaGenSoc.org

(707) 252-2252

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