Professional Works
Evidence Explained
The definitive manual for understanding and citing historical records.
Library Journal Best Reference 2007. 2d ed. 885 pp.
Professional Genealogy
Elizabeth Shown Mills, editor & lead author.
This now-standard manual “for researchers, writers, editors, lecturers, and librarians” provides guidance for all who pursue genealogy—not just professionals. 29 chapters by 23 leading genealogists. xxvi, 654 pp.
Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian
The classic “briefcase edition,” now in its 16th printing. 124 pp.
Other Study Aids in the Evidence Series
(laminated ‘cheat sheets’)
QuickSheet:
The Historical Biographer’s Guide to the Research Process 4 pp.
QuickSheet:
The Historical Biographer’s Guide to Finding People in Databases & Indexes 4pp.
QuickSheet:
The Historical Biographer’s Guide
to Cluster Research (the FAN Principle) 4 pp.
QuickSheet:
The Historical Biographer’s Guide
to Individual Problem Analysis—A Strategic Plan 2pp.
QuickSheet:
Citing Online Historical Resources
A simple framework for citing all types of historical materials found on the Internet . 4 pp.
QuickSheet:
Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images 4 pp.
QuickSheet:
Citing Online African-American Historical Resources 4 pp.
Evidence Analysis: A Research Process Map
Outlines the process by which researchers analyze their findings to arrive at ‘proof,’ together with definitions of all key evidentiary terms. 2 pp.
Popular History
Isle of Canes: A Historical Novel
“A masterpiece! You may never look at American history the same way again.”—Historical Novels Review
xxiii, 583 pp.
Tales of Old Natchitoches
Tales presents the ‘unsung heroes’ of the old Louisiana-Texas borderlands: soldiers and slaves, hunters and farmers, priests and peasants—along with the rare noblesse—who tamed the wild banks of the Red River of the West.
Book Chapters
Marie Thérèse Coincoin (1742–1816):
Cane River Slave, Slave Owner, and Paradox. Chapter 1, Louisiana Women (University of Georgia Press)
Missionaries Compromised:
Early Evangelization of Slaves and Free People of Color in North Louisiana. Cross, Crozier and Crucible. (Archdiocese of New Orleans)
Ethnicity and the Southern Genealogist:
Myths and Misconceptions Resources, and Opportunities. Generations and Change. (Mercer University Press)
Resource Materials
Natchitoches, 1729-1803.
Translated abstracts of the colonial Catholic registers of St. François des Natchitoches. Covers whites, blacks, and Indians—free and enslaved.
Natchitoches, 1800–1826
Translated abstracts of Register 5, St. François des Natchitoches. Covers whites, blacks, and Indians—free and enslaved.
Natchitoches Church Marriages, 1818-1850.
Translated abstracts of registers 11 and 12, St. François des Natchitoches. Covers free population of all ethnicities.
Natchitoches Colonials.
Censuses, military rolls and tax lists, 1722–1803. Covers free population of all ethnicities.