Russell Earnest has studied fraktur for over thirty years, and have recorded the geneaology infill from more than 25,000 fraktur. He has published nineteen books about geneaology and fraktur, including German-American Family Records in the Fraktur Tradition, Three Volumes (1991-1993), The Geneaologist's Guide to Fraktur: For Geneaologists Researching German-American Families, with Beverly Repass Hoch (1991), and Fraktur: Folk Art and Family (1999).