Dealers Specializing in Family Histories

"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
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Has any one run in to shops or dealers who specialize in Family
Histories and Genealogies? I find when using these types of
publications they are usually of limited publication and only found in
local and regional library genealogy collections.

I also see a demand for such items by genealogy researchers for
personal collections as the ones in Libraries are non-circulating
reference items.

Are there people filling this need. I see the same for local
histories. I also see some bring good prices when they come on the
market.



Read the letters of Ernie Wessen, of Midland Rare Books fame, collected in
*Rare Book Lore* (Ohio U. Pr., 1992). It seems that in almost every letter
Wessen is going on about some county or family history or another. He had
standing orders among his scouts for histories of almost all the counties in
Ohio. It seemed like a good part of his business.

I haven't encountered genealogical book specialists, but it seems likely
that there are some.


William M. Klimon
http://www.gateofbliss.com

I know of a couple such dealers in the UK, but the only reason I know them is
because they do the general London bookfairs each month. As far as I can make
out, there are specialist genealogical fairs in different parts of the country
in the same way as there are bookfairs, where the dealers are a mixture of
rare/secondhand booksellers, new booksellers, genealogy software sellers, and
people selling anything which might be useful for the subject. Completely
separate subculture I guess, which has only a small overlap with book-collecting
per se; perhaps it's the same in the States. There seems to be a bunch of
genealogy newsgroups, so if you're looking for something specific, you might try
one of those.

Sandy

"John A. Stovall" wrote in message
...
Has any one run in to shops or dealers who specialize in Family
Histories and Genealogies? I find when using these types of
publications they are usually of limited publication and only found in
local and regional library genealogy collections.

I also see a demand for such items by genealogy researchers for
personal collections as the ones in Libraries are non-circulating
reference items.

Are there people filling this need. I see the same for local
histories. I also see some bring good prices when they come on the
market.


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