Here's everything you need to know to start researching your family ancestry.
Designed to inspire and encourage, this comprehensive guide offers a in
'bite-size' pieces for the beginning genealogist, the primary methods and
sources used in genealogy work.
It begins by showing the reader how to organise and evaluate readily
available information, such as documents and photographs in your possession. It
then explores 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, as well as
naturalisation 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.
Released in 2003 as a hardcover book, this softcover edition now makes it
more affordable for all at a very reasonable price. This is an excellent
introduction to genealogical research. Recommended for all collections in need
of basic materials on how to get started researching your family tree.
Contents:
Genealogy for the first time
- Introduction
- How to use this book
Section 1: Genealogy basics
- Where do I start?
- What information do I already have?
- What are primary and secondary sources?
Section 2: Basic research techniques
- What are the basic steps of genealogy?
- How do I start?
- Where can I find certain facts?
- How do I keep a research log?
- How do I obtain information for my family?
- What is a pedigree chart?
- What is a family group sheet?
- How do I evaluate my findings?
- How do I cite my sources?
- How should I file my findings?
- How can a computer help my research?
- How can the internet help my research?
- What can I find in the Family History Library
- What is a Family History Center?
- What can I find in the Library of Congress
Section 3: Beyond the basics
- What is a chain of evidence?
- What are compiled sources
- What can I find in a family Bible?
- How do I use census records?
- How can I use maps for researching?
- How can photographs help my research?
- What are the differences in cemeteries?
- What information can I find in cemeteries?
- What information can I find in church records?
- What can I learn from land records?
- What can I learn from tax records?
- What can I learn from military records?
- What can I learn from wills and probate records?
- What can I find in early newspapers?
- How can I use immigration records and passenger lists?
- How can I use naturalization and citizenship records?
Section 4: Unique uses of genealogy findings
- Genograns
- Family photography
- Heritage scrapbooking
- Historic homes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Internet resources
- Index
