The Ottawa Public Library has several genealogy research guides acquired in 2025.
Three books by Thomas MacEntee are on order:
- The Big Book of Genealogy Lists (2025) – 19 holds
- Ancestor Sketch: How to Turn Years of Genealogy Research Into A Captivating Family Story (2025) – 12 holds
- AI and Genealogy: A Practical Guide to Summarizing, Transcribing, and Translating Historical Documents (2024) – 9 holdsOthers are
- DNA: A Guide for Family Historians, edited by Graham S Holton (2025) – 10 holds
- Tracing Your Family History Using Irish Newspapers and Other Printed Materials: A Guide for Family Historians by Natalie Bodle (2024) – 4 holds
- World War I Genealogy Research Guide: Tracing American Military and Non-combatant Ancestors by Debra M. Dudek (2024) – 3 holds
- Tracing Your Marginalised Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Janet Few (2024) – 6 holds
- Searching for Your Chinese Birth Family by Wesley Hagood (2024) – 0 holds
- Irish Canadian Ancestors: Using Canadian Strategies and Records to Irish Identify Origins by Dwight Radford (2025) – 11 holds
- Storytelling for Genealogists by Doug Tattershall (2024) – 3 holds.
Thanks for that list…alas, the Radford one is waaaay to expensive for the library, especially as it’s soft cover…budget issues ☹️
The updated Holton book on DNA is one I’ve earmarked. I had to weed Bettinger’s book out as it’s no longer up-to-date.