Genealogy for the first time: Research Your Family History - Hardcover

Best, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402701098 ISBN 13: 9781402701092

Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle, 2003

Synopsis

Here's everything you need to know to start researching your family ancestry. Designed to inspire and encourage anyone interested in learning about his family background, this comprehensive guide offers a basic introduction to the primary methods and sources used in genealogy work. Begin by organizing and evaluating the information that is readily available to you, such as documents and photographs in your possession. Explore fundamental research techniques such as keeping a research log, interviewing relatives, making charts, citing sources, and using the Internet. Find out how to utilize more advanced methods to find information such as using census records, maps, cemeteries, church records, land, tax, and military records, early newspapers, immigration records and passenger lists, and naturalization and citizenship records. Suggestions are also included for preserving, displaying, and using your findings. Plenty of photographs, charts, and lists help you embark on your journey of discovery.

About this title

Review:

“Distills a complex subject into bite-sized pieces...this is an excellent introduction.”  —Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1402701098
• ISBN 13: 9781402701092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112