A side benefit of signing up for newsletters is getting sale notifications in your email. Another genealogical publisher is having a Labor Day weekend sale. Genealogical.com, home to the Genealogical Publishing Company (GPC), is having a 30% off sale online! I have bought books from them and was quite pleased with both the books and the service.
GPC publishes many original works on how to do genealogy research, such as "Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace" by the redoubtable Elizabeth Shown Mills, as well as more abstruse volumes of genealogical data like the newly published "Abstracts of the Debt Books of the Provincial Land Office of Maryland, Charles County. Volume I" by Vernon L. Skinner, Jr. Their emphasis is on early American genealogy, especially the colonial and federal periods.
Their CDs contain multiple reference-type books per disc, often going into great detail on a single topic. For instance "Huguenot Settlers in America, 1600s-1900s" contains electronically searchable text of the pages of sixteen Huguenot reference works.
An interesting and useful feature of the web site is the Name Search, where you can search for people by first and last name. They have name-indexed about half of their 2000 publications, and you get back a nicely formatted list of books and CD containing reference to the searched for names. For some volumes a list of the surnames included is printed right on the web page, giving you an idea of how relevant the book or CD will be to your research. Would that more publishers would follow suit!
