Randy's challenge this week forces us to narrow down our list of reference books for beginners to only 5! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:   1)  What five reference books (and only 5) would you recommend to a beginning genealogy  researcher to have on their bookshelf? It's definitely tough to limit my list to only 5 books, but I persevered - here's my list: