Resource Library
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
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Everything in the library is included with one subscription: $7 a month or $70 a year.
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2006 Edition Companions & Ebooks:
Essential Ebook Series Volumes 1-4
The Burnt County Survival Kit
The Freedmen’s Bureau Field Guide
The Appalachian Naming Pattern Protocol
Walking the Line: Metes and Bounds Decoded
2026 Premium Companions Volumes 1-10
WWI Draft Cards: Physical Descriptions Research Companion
Valentine’s and Marriage Bonds Research Companion
Guardian Bonds: The Minor’s Path Research Companion
Haint Blue and Porch Superstitions Research Companion
The 1890 Veterans Schedule Deep-Dive Research Companion
Old-Time Remedies and Healer Records Research Companion
Store Ledgers as a Census Substitute Research Companion
The Winter of the Deep Snow Research Companion
The Circuit Rider’s Journal Research Companion
The Legal Cold Shoulder: Finding Ancestors in “Warning Out” Records Research Companion
2026 Premium Companions Volumes 11-20
School Census Records: The Forgotten Resource Companion
The Beast of the Deep Hollows: Kentucky’s Tailypo Legend. What This Monster Teaches Us About Real Appalachian Life Companion Guide
The Language of the Hills: Archaic Terms Companion
The “Junior/Senior” Confusion (Not Always Father/Son) Companion
Raised from the Ridge Research Companion
The Bastardy Bonds Research Companion
Estray Books: Finding the Family Horse Research Companion
St. Patrick’s in the Peaks Research Companion
The Seed Keeper’s Companion
The 1950 Census Research Companion
2026 Premium Companions Volumes 21-30
The 1870 “New Voter” Registrations Research Companion
The Early Photography & Identifying the Unnamed Research Companion
The State Supreme Court Research Companion
The Beyond the Plow Research Companion
Foraging Records: Ginseng and Economic Survival in Appalachian Family History Companion
Spring Cleaning Your Digital Tree Companion
Using Mountain Ballads in Appalachian Genealogy Companion
The Names Next Door: A Census Proximity Research Companion
The Blooming Records Research Companion
First Acre, Last Sale: A State Land Grant and County Deed Research Companion
2026 Premium Companions Volumes 31-40
The Hidden Matriarchs Research Companion
The Deposition File: A Research Companion to NARA Pension Records M804
At the Counter: A Genealogist’s Guide to Appalachian Merchant and Store Records
The Labor and the Land: A Research Companion to Fort Negley, Old Stone Fort, and Tennessee Civil War Records
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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.
