Indexes for Purchase

As both a professional genealogist and former professional indexer (first on staff at the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., and later as a business), I understand both what information a genealogist searches for and how to provide the best path to it.  The following indexes to classic local history books about my home county are written and published by me and available for purchase at Lulu.com.  Click any title to checkout.

Every-Name Index to Emerson’s 1898 “Our County & Its People: A Descriptive Work on Jefferson County, New York” (2016)
Paperback, 8.5 x 11in. 264pp.  $18.50

• More than 26,500 references to over 15,000 people
• More than 1,800 named organizations, places and things
• Over 700 surname spelling variant groupings
• Over 800 cross references to related names
• Women fully indexed under both birth and married surnames
• “Unknown Surname” section with helpful identifying details

 

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Every-Name Index to Coughlin’s 1905 “Jefferson County, New York Centennial” (2016)
Paperback, 6 x 9in. 96pp.  $12.50

• More than 5,400 references to over 4,150 people
• More than 1,400 families indexed
• Over 600 surname spelling variant groupings
• Over 350 cross references to related names
• Women fully indexed under both birth and married surnames
• “Unknown Surname” section with helpful identifying details

 

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Every-Name Index to Reeve’s 1920 “Jefferson County in the World War” (2016)
Paperback, 6 x 9in. 92pp.  $11.50

• More than 5,400 references to over 4,150 people
• More than 1,400 families indexed
• Over 600 surname spelling variant groupings
• Over 350 cross references to related names
• Women fully indexed under both birth and married surnames
• “Unknown Surname” section with helpful identifying detail

 

 

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“I was helping someone…who was creating a genealogical index. Fortunately I showed it to Mark, who saved us both from creating a less-than-helpful index.”

—Anne Marie Houppert, National Geographic Society