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Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures
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Finding Your Family on the Internet
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The Book of Irish Families, Great & Small
This book is good for anyone who is researching their Irish ancestry.
VERY GOOD book! |
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German-English Genealogical Dictionary
A must for every person who is doing German Family History research! This is a VERY helpful tool, and at a very good price! |
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Save time, money, and space as you learn how to organize everything from filing cabinets to research trips. Whether you have a whole room dedicated to your family history search or just a few storage boxes, you'll find a system that puts information right at your fingertips. |
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From the Intro… There are a few features in this collection which are notable and require a brief discussion. Eight of the 18 papers are authored by international scholars. This means that perceptions of reality may vary widely since respective writers conceptualize their research within the context of their cultural identities, particularistic training and experiences in their societies. Collaborative work in recent decades has reduced the impact of this cultural specificity. A paradigm of intercultural and interdisciplinary thought and process is beginning... |
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Crash Course in Family History
Family history and temple work will never be the same! By combining a simplified "how to" approach with todays awesome technology using the power of computers and the Internet, its a combination so powerful that it is transforming the way we do family history today. This indispensable LDS guidebook contains simple, step-by-step directions on where to begin, how to easily search for your ancestors, and how to take them with you to the temple. And you can do your family history at home at your convenience. |
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature... |
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From locating an ancestor's homesite and where records might be kept to determining which route and roads forebears took when migrating from one area to another, maps are common tools in tracing family history. This book expands the reader's awareness of how maps and other geographic resources, such as atlases, gazetteers, and global positioning systems, will help them find their elusive ancestors. Readers will learn how to: 1)find historic maps that will help them in their search, 2)Locate obscure towns and villages, 3)Determine shifting boundary changes that can affect their research, 4)Use maps and other geographic tools to find cemeteries and ancestral home sites. Also, in addition, this book is filled with practical examples for using maps in genealogy. It's packed with map reproductions, giving readers easy-to-follow instruction on getting the most out of maps to aid them in the search for their ancestors. |
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Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOK!
Evidence Explained is the definitive guide to the citation and analysis of historical sources. It begins with a simple question: Why do we invest so much of our energy into the citation of sources? Followed by the intriguing answer: Because all sources are not created equal. As a citation guide, Evidence Explained is built on this simple question and answer. According to the author, there are no historical resources we can trust at face value. Records simply offer evidence, and their assertions may or may not be true. To decide what actually happened, we must understand those records. To analyze that evidence and judge what to believe, we also need particular facts about those records…….. |
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Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOK!
This book gives information regarding the fundamentals of citations and analysis, as well as citation formatting. It helps by giving guidelines for citing sources, etc. This is a very good book, and we recommend it to anyone who is serious about genealogy and wants to do it the correct way. We also recommend the book above, “Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace”. |
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The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy
This book is easy to read and covers a broad enough spectrum of resources that readers are equipped to get started with a minimum investment of study time. For those who want to learn how to build pedigrees and reconstruct family groups, tying them from one generation to the next, this book is an excellent guide...This book also has value to other researchers. Historians, demographers, and sociologists studying people in the past will find that this book will provide important guidance in assessing which records will provide the facts needed. |
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The Source: A Guidebook Of American Genealogy
Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary sources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers.
There are four new chapters: "Computers and Technology," "General Reference and Guides," "Colonial English Research," and "Colonial Spanish Borderland Research." Three chapters were rewritten ("Business, Institution and Organization Records," "Church Records," and "African-American Research"), and all of the others have been updated to reflect new sources and new techniques. |
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Land & Property Research in the United States
When early settlers left their homelands to start a new life in America, they had dreams of owning their own land a prospering from their own efforts. They were suspicious of all forms of government and did their best, in many cases, to be invisible to a variety of record keepers. But when it came to ensuring that their precious land was, without doubt, their own, they were careful to provide all of the information requested of them by the various government agencies. It is this care in reporting that makes this reference as valuable as the most comprehensive and useful review of land and property research for genealogists. |
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The Genealogist’s Companion and Sourcebook
This completely revised classic provides researchers with an in-depth look at public sources for genealogical research in the United States. Its primary goals are to introduce readers to many different kinds of public sources and encourage them to branch out and investigate sources they may be unfamiliar with. The text gives examples of the genealogical information in many kinds of sources along with tips for using or interpreting these sources. Mini-case studies provide readers with real-life research examples of just how these sources can be used. |
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Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists: The Essential Guide to American County and Town Sources
In one authoritative reference, Family Tree Big Book provides all genealogists with the information they need to trace their American roots, including: * Research summaries, with maps and timelines, for every U.S. state * Detailed county-level data, essential for unlocking the door to the bulk of genealogical records * Contact information, including Web sites, for libraries, archives, genealogical societies and historical societies This is the one book every genealogist must have. Researchers will love having this wealth of trusted information at their fingertips, and at a very attractive price! |
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A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors
African-American genealogy is not only possible, but many are involved successfully in the search every day. You, too, can start uncovering your family’s story. This book is designed to guide you, step-by-step, along the way. Sooner or later, most people become curious about their heritage and their ancestors. Who were the people who came before you? How did their lives pave the way for you? Were you named for one or more of them? People become involved in learning about their family’s past for many reasons but usually because of an experience or a person who sparked their curiosity…….. |
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The Southeast in Early Maps (Fred W Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
The 24 color and 71 black-and-white maps of the American Southeast comprising this volume span the entire Spanish and English colonial periods, 1507-1775. An extensive introductory essay, an annotated checklist of manuscript and printed maps, a lengthy essay on the role of Native Americans in the mapping of the Southeast, and a useful bibliography accompany the maps. First published in 1958 by the late Cumming, an authority on American cartography, this third revision is elegantly designed, clearly printed, and beautifully bound. Although often rife with errors, the maps help explain explorers' and settlers' movements, the changing locations of Indian peoples, and the conflict among Spain, France, and England for North America. Historians as well as cartographers will value this book. |
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Dating Old Photographs (1840-1929)
This is a VERY helpful book for dating old photographs. If you have photos that you can’t quite put a date to, this book will be most helpful. There are tricks to dating old photos… and this is the book to learn them from. It is very well written and easy to follow.
Another very helpful tool in genealogy research or if you are just trying to date your old photographs! |
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The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual
Achieve excellence in genealogical research & presentation. In a field where there is such a tremendous exchange of vital information, research and documentation standards are not only a convenience, they're an absolute must! Family historians exchange research with countless others in countless ways. We copy information from books and databases, correspond with libraries, societies, and government offices. At times we even hire professionals to do legwork in distant areas, trusting them to solve important problems.
Achieving Reliability & Consistency So how can a researcher be assured that he or she is producing or receiving reliable results? This official manual from the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) provides solid, time-honored standards by which all genealogists can pattern their work. These standards of competence extend to all phases of a research project: Collecting the information
"Anyone who wants to become a certified genealogist will need to read this book. Every other genealogist should read this book to see "how the pros do it. "Every genealogy software developer should read this book to see how printed reports are to be created. I would also suggest that every beginning genealogist should read this manual to see how to do it the right way." I wish I had read a book like this when I first started researching my family tree!" --Dick Eastman |
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Written as the author's research was conducted, the text provides not only a fascinating account of one particular search, but also gives hints and guidelines on how to search for slave ancestors and their slave owners. It explains the information to be found in libraries, courthouses, cemeteries, and other archives, as well as identifying the records generated by slave-holding families and how to find slave-holding families. This book contains over one hundred documents which illustrate how the author found the names of her slave ancestors and the surnames of the slave owners. Slave lists are included from four Georgia counties: Warren, Baldwin, Talbot, and Taylor ... |
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Native American genealogy, especially the Cherokees, was heavily blended with early explorers and traders from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Germany. The Choctaw and the Creeks were blended with French, and the Seminoles with Spanish. From the days of the earliest European ‘intruders’, the European system of family names was introduced to the off-spring of the traders and their Native American wives. Therefore, many of the Native American families can trace their ‘roots’ back to the European origins of their first white ancestor’s family. |