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Much research has already been published and it is always worth checking to see if your family tree is included. The main British genealogical bibliography is G. W. Marshall’s The Genealogist’s Guide (GPC, reprinted 1973); supplemented by J. B. Whitmore’s A Genealogical Guide: An Index to British Pedigrees in Continuation of Marshall’s Genealogist’s Guide (J. B. Whitmore, 1953). Besides the well-known Burke’s publications, heralds’ visitations (see here) and much else, these books encompass the rich veins of material ranging from transcripts of pedigrees in Close Rolls to copies of memorial inscriptions in overseas cemeteries, published in Victorian and early 20th-century antiquarian journals.

Coming closer to the present, there is G. B. Barrow’s The Genealogists’ Guide: An Index to Printed British Pedigrees and Family Histories 1950–75 (Research Publishing Co., 1977), followed by T. R. Thompson’s A Catalogue of British Family Histories (Research Publishing Co and SoG, 1980). Incredibly useful too are Stuart Raymond’s County Bibliographies (S. A. and M. J. Raymond). These books reference published material (including family history journals) in terms of family histories and local histories, newspapers, county histories and published records of all sorts, particularly providing an overview of the publications of the county and national record societies and publications.

For Scotland there are M. Stuart’s Scottish Family History (GPC, 1978), supplemented by P. S. Ferguson’s Scottish Family Histories (National Library of Scotland, 1986), and for Ireland, the bibliographies compiled by B. de Breffny in 1964 and E. MacLysaght in 1982.

Many privately published and rare manuscript family histories are catalogued in the SoG’s online catalogue, SoGCAT, www.sog.org.uk/sogcat/sogcat. Many printed family histories are digitally available in the Family History Library catalogue section of www.familysearch.org.