The World’s Best Books on Genealogy and Family History
65 years of publishing excellence
65 years of publishing excellence
From the waning years of the 19th century through the first half of the 20th, thousands of mugbooks were published in the U.S. The term “mugbook” refers to a single or multi-volume collection of genealogies/biographies of accomplished individuals from a particular city, county, state, or region. Each essay is usually accompanied by a photograph of its principal subject, hence the term “mugbook.” Mugbooks differ from local histories in that they are generally unconcerned with political, social, or institutional history–except as those subjects had a place in the personal essays.
Click the button to review thirteen mugbooks (most of them multi-volume works), pertaining to New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgis genealogy. Each is chockfull of family histories on its subjects and, you will be happy to learn, each has been reduced in price by up to 20% until 11:59 PM EDT, Monday night, February 25, 2019!