Resource Library (2025 archive)
Issues of the Appalachian Genealogy newsletter go deeper than names and dates, and the Resource Library is built to take you even further. Paid subscribers receive full access to a growing collection of research companions created specifically for Appalachian work — the kind of tools you carry into your courthouse visits, your interviews, and your long-form research sessions.
As a paid subscriber, you unlock two categories of materials:
1. Essential Research Series
These are full-length guides from Appalachian Press, each running 20–30 pages. Every volume tackles a single research problem with depth and clarity: burnt counties, Freedmen’s Bureau records, naming patterns, migration routes, and more. Inside you’ll find chapter-length strategies, state-by-state repository guides, case examples, and fillable worksheets. These are the guides you return to across multiple projects.
2. Issue Companions
Shorter working documents built alongside specific newsletter posts and podcast episodes. Reference sheets, field guides, courthouse checklists, and record-type primers — all designed for the terrain, history, and record-keeping patterns of the Appalachian region. These are the tools you print, mark up, and take with you.
What you receive as a paid subscriber:
Printable trackers and record sheets tied to specific posts
Research guides for Appalachian-specific sources and record types
Interview frameworks for capturing living family knowledge
Seasonal and practical planners rooted in mountain heritage
All current materials, plus every future addition
Paid subscribers only posts
Paid subscribers only discussions and chats
Everything in the library is included with one subscription: $7 a month or $70 a year.
Already a paid subscriber? Everything below is yours. Need a full description of the ever-growing library? Click here.
Note: Companions started in 2026, however, we did not wish 2025 to be left out. Therefore, we are going back issue by issue to create companions. Check in often for the growing list.
2025 Edition Companions
Premium Companions Volumes 1-10
Ink and Iron: The New Year’s Shift of Appalachian Responsibility Companion
Appalachian Food Preservation Research Companion
The Whiskey and Wills Research Companion
Civil War Deserters Research Companion
The Princesses, Melungeons, and Mountain Gold Research Companion
Land, Debt, and Kin: A Year-End Tax Record Research Companion
Before the Doctor Came: A Research Companion to Granny Midwife Records in Appalachian States
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Appalachian Genealogy is a home for the stories, records, and histories that shaped the mountains and the families who came from them. If you’re walking your own line back through time, you’re in the right place.
