Genealogy Resources
Diaries, Journals and Letters
- Arksey, Laura, Nancy Pries, and Marcia Reed. American
Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published American Diaries
and Journals. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1987.
- Cyndi's List
- Diaries and Letters.
- Matthews, William, compiler. American Diaries in
Manuscript, 1580-1954: A Descriptive Bibliography. Athens,
Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1974.
- Smith, Philip C.F., editor. Bowen, Ashley, the Journals
of, 1728-1813, of Marblehead [Massachusetts], vol. I: 1728-1772.
Rockland, ME: Picton Press, 1973.
- Wagnerova, Alena and Julie Winter. In 1945 They Were
Children: Flight and Expulsion in the Life of a Generation.
Rockland, ME: Picton Press, 2008. Puts human faces
on the millions of German expellees of 1945-48, women, children,
old and young men -- an entire population "ethnically cleansed"
just because they were German.
- War Letters. The
Legacy Project preserves soldiers' letters from wars historical
and modern.