The JGSS has assembled an outstanding library of genealogy-related books, video tapes, and other media, including journals and newsletters from around the world. All of these materials are available for checkout by members at meetings.

The following table lists many of the books and maps that are in the JGSS library as of June 2011. The “TOPIC” column indicates the location of the material in the library. Or, you can simply search on a topic, such as “Lithuania”, to find out which books pertain to that subject.

TITLE AUTHOR TOPIC Finding Your Canadian Ancestors... Bourrie; Doris Canada Researching Canadian census records Bourrie; Doris B Canada Researching Canadian Vital Statistics Records--: Births Marriages and Deaths Murphy; Sharon L. Canada A Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry 1909-1914: From the Canadian Jewish Times Tapper; Lawrence F. (Editor) Canada Canada's Jews: A People's Journey Tulchinsky; Gerald Canada The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collection Altschuler; David (Editor) Czechoslovakia Jewish Surnames in Prague: (15th-18th Centuries) (15th-18th Centuries) Beider; Alexander Czechoslovakia A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names : Their Origins Structure Pronunciations and Migrations Beider; Alexander Dictionary Jewish Personal Names: Their Origin Derivation and Diminutive Forms Gorr; Shmuel Dictionary German-American Business Biographies: High Finance and Big Business Haller; Charles R. Dictionary The Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Ethnic DNA Origins for Family History: How Ashkenazi Sephardi Mizrahi & Europeans Are Related to Everyone Else Hart; Anne DNA A Dictionary Of Jewish Surnames From Galicia Beider; Alexander Galicia Remembering Ottynia Spiegel; Philip Galicia The Galitzianers: The Jews of Galicia 1772-1918 Suzan; F. Wynne Galicia Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide Wynne; Suzan F. Galicia Research Guide to German-American Genealogy Bellingham; Mary Germany The German Minority Census of 1939: An Introduction and Register (Avotaynu Monograph Series) Edlund; Thomas Kent Germany Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy (Avotaynu Monograph Series) Ellmann-Kruger; Angelika G. Germany The Jews of Germany : A Historical Portrait Gay; Ruth Germany Jews in Germany: From Roman Times to the Weimar Republic Gidal; Nachum Tim Germany Finding Your German Ancestors : A Beginner's Guide [ILLUSTRATED] Hansen; Kevan M Germany A Dictionary Of German-Jewish Surnames Menk; Lars Germany The German research companion Riemer; Shirley J Germany Auswandererhafen Hamburg : = Emigration port Hamburg Schmoock; Matthias Germany Overseas Emigration and Family Research (Veroffentlichungen Aus Dem Staatsarchiv Der Freien Und Hansestadt Hamburg Bd. 18.) Sielemann; Jurgen (Editor) Germany Jewish Ancestors?: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany and Austria Skyte; Thea Germany Atlas of the German Empire 1892 Thomsen's Genealogical Center Germany How to Trace Your Family Tree in England Ireland Scotland and Wales Chater; Kathy Great Britain Family Roots: Discovering the Past in the Public Record Office Colwell; Stella Great Britain Broughton and Cheetham Hill in Regency and Victorian Times Dobkin; Monty Great Britain Tales of Manchester Jewry and Manchester in the Thirties Dobkin; Monty Great Britain The Jewish Immigrant in England 1870-1914 Gartner; Lloyd P. Great Britain A Beginner's Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Great Britain and Ireland Wenzerul; Rosemary Great Britain Manchester Jewry A Pictorial History 1788 - 1988 Williams; Bill Great Britain Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews Hoffman; Eva History William Alexander Leidesdorff - First Black Millionaire American Consul and California Pioneer Palgon; Gary History Konin : One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community Richmond; Theo History The Lurie Legacy: The House of Davidic Royal Descent Rosenstein; Neil History Yearning to Breathe Free: The Story of the Vinik Mason and Gatkin Families Cohen; Shirley Mason History - Genealogies The Oreckovsky family =: Orekhovskaia sem§ia : from Russia to America Traubman; Len History - Genealogies Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors 2000 Given; No Author Holocaust French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial Klarsfeld; Serge (Editor) Holocaust Denying the Holocaust Lipstadt; Deborah E. Holocaust The Unwanted : European Refugees in the Twentieth Century Marrus; Michael R. Holocaust How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust: Documenting Victims Locating Survivors (Avotaynu Monograph) Mokotoff; Gary Holocaust Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust Mokotoff; Gary Holocaust The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust Spector; Shmuel (Editor) Holocaust Gathering the Generations - A guide to Family Reunions Better Homes and Gardens Family Network How to Help ! There's A Skeleton in my Closet Bourrie; Doris How to Organizing Your Family History Search: Efficient & Effective Ways to Gather and Protect Your Genealogical Research Carmack; Sharon How to A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors : Special Strategies for Uncovering Hard-To-Find Information About Your Female Lineage Carmack; Sharon Debartolo How to A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Immigrant & Ethnic Ancestors: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage (Genealogist's Guides to Discovering Your Ancestor...) Carmack; Sharon DeBartolo How to Genealogy Online 5th Edition Crowe; Elizabeth Powell How to How to Trace Your Jewish Roots: Discovering Your Unique History David; Rabbi Jo How to Managing a Genealogical Project Updated Edition Dollarhide; William How to The Handy Handbook for Genealogists Everton; George. B.; Sr. (Editor) How to Scattered Seeds: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy Freedman-Morris; Mona How to How to Locate Anyone Anywhere: Without Leaving Home Gunderson; Ted L. How to Where to Find Your Arab-American or Jewish Genealogy Records : Also: Mediterranean Assyrian Iranian Greek & Armenian Hart; Anne How to Your Guide to the Federal Census: For Genealogists Researchers and Family Historians Hinckley; Kathleen How to Locating Lost Family Members & Friends : Modern Genealogical Research Techniques for Locating the People of Your Past and Present Hinckley; Kathleen W. How to International Vital Records Handbook (International Vital Records Handbook) Kemp; Thomas Jay How to How Healthy Is Your Family Tree? A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Family's Medical and Behavioral History Krause; Carol How to From Generation to Generation : How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History Kurzweil; Arthur How to Cite Your Sources: A Manual for Documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records Lackey; Richard S. How to Doing Research at the Library of Congress: A Guide to Subject Searching at a Closed Stacks Library Mann; Thomas How to Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy Mokotoff; Gary How to Guide to genealogical research in the National Archives of the United States No author How to Going to Salt Lake City to Do Family History Research Parker; J. Carlyle How to Keeping Family Stories Alive: A Creative Guide to Taping Your Family Life & Lore Rosenbluth; Vera How to Finding our fathers: A guidebook to Jewish genealogy Rottenberg; Dan How to Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States Schaefer; Christina K. How to Guide to Jewish Cemeteries Schlossberg; Bruce Cemeteries Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide Shea; Jonathan D. How to In Their Words . . .: A Genealogist's Translation Guide to Polish< German Latin and Russian Documents: Russian Shea; Jonathan D. How to Genealogical Resources in Northern California Smith; Lester (Editor) How to Protect Your Precious Documents St Denis; Louise J. How to Tracing Your Jewish Roots Stern; Malcolm H. How to Birthright : The Guide to Search and Reunion for Adoptees Birthparents and Adoptive... Strauss; Jean A. S. How to Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway Szucs; Loretto Dennis How to Finding Answers in U.S. Census Records Szucs; Loretto Dennis How to American Passenger Arrival Records A Guide to the Records of Immigrants Tepper; Michael How to Making the Most of your Research Trip to Salt Lake City Warren; Paula Stuart How to The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy: Sources in the United States and Canada (Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy) Weiner; Miriam (Editor) How to Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories Zubatsky; David S. How to Genealogical Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary Auslander; Jordan (Editor) Hungary Guides to the Archives in Israel Volume 1 Alsberg; P.A. (Editor) Israel A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel Sack; Sallyann Amdur Israel A guide to Jewish genealogy in Latvia and Estonia : no. 3 in series - a guide to Jewish genealogy Beare; Arlene Latvia - Estonia The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-1945: A Book of Remembrance Vol. 1-3 Cohen; Rose Lerer and Issrof; Saul Lithuania Jewish Vital Records: Revision Lists And Other Holdings In The Lithuanian Archives (Avotaynu Monograph Series) Rhode; Harold (Compiler) Lithuania Preserving Our Litvak Heritage - A History of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania Rosin; Josef Lithuania Vilniaus getas: Kaliniu sarasai   Lithuania Czechoslovakia -    The East Central Provinces: Bohemia Moravia & Silesia 1844 M8 Unknown Maps Czechoslovakia - The Kingdom of Bohemia with Silesia Moravia &  Lusatia 1794 M19 Unknown Maps Poland 1799 M28 Unknown Maps Poland Between the Wars Unknown Maps Russia in Europe 1845 2 sheets X10 Unknown Maps Russia in Europe West 1835 M29 Unknown Maps South-West Russia 1860 M30 Unknown Maps The Austrian Empire 1875 2 sheets M21 Unknown Maps The Baltic States 1845 M7 Unknown Maps The German Empire  1875  2 sheets X11 Unknown Maps A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland Beider; Alexander Poland Polish Roots Chorzempa; Rosemary A. Poland A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents: (Birth Marriage and Death Records) Frazin; Judith R Poland Russian Language Documents from Russian Poland Shea; Jonathan Poland From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem (Corporate Author) Poland Polish Jews Vishniac; Roman Poland Sources On Polish Jewry At The Central Archives For The History Of The Jewish People Volovici; H. Poland The Lands of Partitioned Poland 1795-1918 (History of East Central Europe) Wandycz; Piotr S. Poland Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories Weiner; Miriam Poland Jewish Bialystok And Surroundings in Eastern Poland Wisniewski; Tomasz Poland Finding Home: In The Footsteps Of The Jewish Fusgeyers Culiner; Jill Romania - Transylvania Evreii din Transilvania în epoca emancipæarii : 1790-1867 = The Jews of Transylvania in the age of emancipation : 1790-1867 Gyemant; Ladislau Romania - Transylvania Evreii din Transilvania. Destin istoric/The Jews of Transylvania: A Historical Destiny Gyemant; Ladislau Romania - Transylvania The Wayfarers Tower; Stuart Romania - Transylvania A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Revised Edition (volumes 1 and 2) Beider; Alexander Russia History of the Jews in Russia and Poland: From the Earliest Times Until the Present Day Dubnow; S. M. Russia Russian-Jewish Given Names Feldblyum; Boris Russia Migration from the Russian Empire Lists of Passengers (all volumes) Glazier; Ira A. (Editor) Russia JEWS IN RUSSIA (The Struggle for Emancipation) (Studies in the Life of Women) Greenberg; Louis Russia Russia Eurasian States and Eastern Europe 1997 (28th ed) Shoemaker; M. Wesley Russia Dicionário Sefaradi De Sobrenomes/Dictionary Of Sephardic Surnames: Inclusive Cristaos-Novos Conversos Marranos Italianos Berberes E Sua Historia Na ... Christianized Jews Converso Faiguenboim; Guilherme Sephardic To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico Hordes; Stanley M. Sephardic Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World Malka; Jeffrey S. Sephardic Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel Tagger; Mathilde A. Sephardic The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs : 193 Views 1897-1927 Miller; William H.; Jr. Ships Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals For the Years Morton; Allen Ships Ocean Liners of the 20th Century Newell; Gordon Ships Some Archival Sources for Ukrainian Jewish Genealogy (Avotaynu Monograph Series) Kronik; Aleksander (Editor) Ukraine Jewish Cemeteries Synagogues and Mass Grave Sites in Ukraine United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad Ukraine Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories Weiner; Miriam Ukraine The Genealogist's Companion & Sourcebook (Genealogist's Companion & Sourcebook) Croom; Emily Anne United States Ancestry's Red Book: American State County and Town Sources 2nd Edition Dollarhide; William United States From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America Grunberger; Michael W. (Editor) United States State Census Records Lainhart; Ann S. United States We Lived There Too: In Their Own Words and Pictures Pioneer Jews and the Westward Movement of America 1630-1930 Libo; Kenneth United States Who was Who in America With World Notables: Index 1607-1985 Marquis Who's Who United States Uncle we are ready!: Registering America's men 1917-1918 : a guide to researching World War I draft registration cards Newman; John J United States National Yellow Book of Funeral Directors No Author United States Western Jewish History Center: Guide to Archival and Oral History  Collections Rafael; Ruth Kelson United States Pioneer Jews: A New Life in the Far West Rochlin; Harriet United States American Jewish Yearbook Vol. 41 Schneiderman; Harry  (Editor) United States American Jewish Year Book 1991 Singer; David United States United States Military Bases during World War II and as of 1947 Williams; Dorothy Lazelle United States Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area Blatt; Warren United States - Boston A Traveler's Guide to Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries of the California Gold Rush Morris; Susan United States - California Pioneer Jews of the California Mother Lode 1849-1880 an annotated bibliography Sara C. Cogan United States - California The Jewish Settlement in Sacramento: A Pictorial History Wyatt; Brett United States - California Chicago and Cook County: A Guide to Research Szucs; Loretto Dennis United States - Chicago New York State Censuses and Substitutes Dollarhide; William W. United States - New York New York State Census Records 1790-1925 Douglas; Marilyn United States - New York Genealogical Resources in New York Guzik; Estelle M. (Other Contributor) United States - New York Aid to Finding Addresses in 1890 New York City Police Census Jensen; Howard M. United States - New York Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area Jewish Genealogical Society of New York United States - New York New York State Probate Records: A Genealogist's Guide to Testate and Intestate Records Remington; Gordon Lewis United States - New York New York Genealogical Research Schweitzer; George K. United States - New York Hadassah Austin TX 1990 Yearbook of Known Jewish Families Austin Chapter of Hadassah United States - Texas How to Organize and Operate a Small Library Bernard; Genore H.   Zelig's Odyssey Camiel; Shimon   Searching for your Pre-1800 Ancestor Carter-Walker; Fran   Ancestry's Guide to Research: Case Studies in American Genealogy Cerny; Johni   The Penguin Historical Atlas of Russia Channon; John   California Holocaust Memorial Week Book Cohn; Rebecca; ed.   They Came in Ships: Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Arrival Record Colletta; John Philip   Shaking Your Family Tree: A Basic Guide to Tracing Your Family's Genealogy Crandall; Ralph   Long-Distance Genealogy Crawford-Oppenheimer; Christine   The Sleuth Book for Genealogists Croom; Emily   Skeletons in Your Closet: Deciding the Fate of Family Secrets Earnest; Russell   Military Records at Ancestry.com Esther Yu Sumner   Who's Where In Your Genealogical Records: A Filing and &doublequote;Finding&doublequote; System Gobble; J. R.   The Official Guide to Rootsweb.com [ILLUSTRATED] Gormley; Myra Vanderpool   Tracing Your Civil War Ancestor Groene; Bertram H.   The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events Grun; Bernard   Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary Guggenheimer; Heinrich W.   First Names of the Polish Commonwealth: Origins & Meanings Hoffman; William F.   Capital Collections: Resources for Jewish Genealogical Research in the Washington DC Area JGS Greater Washington   Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country Kacyzne; Alter   Professional Techniques and Tactics in American Genealogical Research Kirkham; E. Kay   Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York: The WPA Yiddish Writers' Group Study Kliger; Hannah   The Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names Kolatch; Alfred J. Names Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors Krasner-Khait; Barbara How to Langenscheidt Universal Russian Dictionary Langenscheidt Language A guide for the organization and management of genealogical societies Luebking; Sandra Hargreaves   Practical Guide to Jewish Cemeteries Menachemson; Nolan Cemeteries The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Mendelsohn; Daniel   Documents of Your Ancestors: A Selection of Reproducible Genealogy Forms and Tips for Using Them Meshenberg; Michael J. How to Publishing a family history with a computer: A five step guide Miller; Ilene Chandler How to Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian Mills; Elizabeth Shown How to Locating Your Immigrant Ancestor Neagles; James C. How to Learn Russian the Fast and Fun Way Ph.D.; Thomas R. Beyer Jr.   Polish-English English-Polish Dictionary: With Complete Phonetics Pogonowski; Iwo Cyprian (Editor)   Latter Day Leaders Sages and Scholars : Bibliographical Index Rosenstein; Emanuel   Forgotten few Schwartz; Cora T Transnistria A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery Segal; Joshua L. Cemeteries Focus on the past: A genealogists guide to photography Smith; Kenneth L   First American Jewish Families: 600 Genealogies : 1654-1988 Stern; Malcolm H.   The Source: A Guidebook Of American Genealogy Szucs; Loretto Dennis (Editor)