Best Genealogy Books of 2025

Tell Me Your Life Story, Mom is a guided journal and memory keepsake book that helps mothers record their life story with over 200 questions. This beautifully designed gift captures all of Mom’s precious memories and wisdom, making it a precious treasure and personal keepsake for future generations. The book has an elegant design, printed in the USA, and is available in both hardcover and paperback. It makes an ideal and thoughtful gift for any occasion, with inclusive questions suitable for all mothers and family structures.

Tell Me Your Life Story, Grandma is a guided journal and memory keepsake book that helps grandmothers record their life story with over 200 questions. Organized into chapters based on life stages, this book will become a precious treasure and personal keepsake of your grandmother's most important recollections, stories, and life lessons that can be passed down to future generations. This inclusive book is suitable for all grandmothers and family structures and is available in both hardcover and paperback. It makes a perfect and thoughtful gift for any occasion. Overall, this book is a beautiful and unique way to create a timeless keepsake that will be treasured for generations to come.

Mom, I Want to Hear Your Story: A Mother’s Guided Journal To Share Her Life & Her Love is a heartwarming book that helps readers discover their mother's life story. With over 250 expertly crafted questions and prompts, this book encourages and guides moms to share their memories and experiences. The book is available in hardback and softback versions and is 100% designed, created, and printed in the US. Overall, this book is an excellent way to connect with your mom and create a lasting legacy for your family.

Tell Me Your Life Story, Dad is a guided journal and memory keepsake book that helps fathers record their life story with over 200 questions. The questions and prompts are organized into chapters based on your father’s life stages to help him record memories, experiences, treasured moments and reflections. The completed journal becomes a precious treasure and personal keepsake of your father’s most important recollections, stories and life lessons that can be passed down to your children and cherished by future generations. This inclusive book is suitable for all fathers and family structures and is available in both hardcover and paperback.

King Charles: The Man, the Monarch, and the Future of Britain is an illuminating biography of Britain's new monarch, King Charles III. Robert Jobson, the Royal Editor of the London Evening Standard, debunks the myths about Charles and portrays the kind of monarch he will be. With exclusive interviews and extensive research, Jobson divulges the full range of Charles's political beliefs, his relationship with Camilla, and the late Queen Elizabeth's plans to transition Charles to the throne. This comprehensive profile is a must-read for anyone interested in the British monarchy and modern history.

The Book of Myself is a do-it-yourself autobiography that helps you capture the experiences, relationships, and lessons that define you. With 201 memory-evoking prompts, this journal-writing self-help book is perfect for anyone who wants to record life's highlights and everyday moments. The book was created by a grandson who wanted to preserve his grandfather's life story for future generations. The author's background is in mathematics and statistics, and he has previously co-authored other self-help books. The Book of Myself is an excellent tool for anyone who wants to create a personal memoir or capture the life story of a loved one.

Tell Me Your Life Story, Grandpa is a guided journal and memory keepsake book for grandfathers. It contains over 200 questions and prompts that are divided into chapters based on the grandfather's life stages. The elegant design and perfect size make it an ideal gift for grandfathers of all kinds. Once completed, the journal becomes a personal keepsake that can be passed down to future generations. The book is proudly designed and printed in the USA. Overall, this is a thoughtful and unique gift that will be treasured by any grandfather and their family.

Getting the Most Out of RootsMagic 9 is the ultimate guide for those who want to explore the full potential of RootsMagic genealogy software. This book covers everything from basic data entry to advanced techniques like custom reports, research tasks, and creating user-defined facts. The author also shares time-saving shortcuts that will help users master RootsMagic's hidden powers. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to take their genealogy research to the next level.

Anne of Green Gables is a classic children's book about an orphan with a fiery spirit who finds herself in a new home with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert at Green Gables. Anne's mischievous and imaginative nature leads her into many scrapes, but her unique personality endears her to everyone around her. The book is beautifully written and illustrated, making it a must-read for any young reader. Overall, Anne of Green Gables is a heartwarming and timeless story about the power of imagination and the importance of finding a place to belong.

The Genealogy Standards Second Edition Revised is an official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealogists that provides standards for family historians to assess their own and others' work. This book is essentially a guide for genealogical researchers to produce and receive trustworthy results. The second edition of this book increases the clarity of DNA and privacy standards, which are especially useful for genealogists who use DNA testing to trace living people more often than in the past. Overall, this book is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in genealogy and is highly recommended.