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Presents methods for tracing your family history with tips and sample charts to follow.
Provides information on cemetery research covering such topics as locating graves and cemeteries, accessing death records, searching a cemetery, and American burial customs.
This first-ever guide reveals special strategies for overcoming the unique challenges of tracing female genealogy. Readers will be able to uncover historical facts, personal accounts and recorded events to form an intriguing narrative biography of the women in their ancestries.
"In simple language ... explains copyright, rights, and contracts and how these apply to genealogists, writers, and researchers."--Page 4 of cover.
Explains how to use available sources and resources to trace one's lineage, offering actual case studes to demonstrate how the research is conducted and organized.
Does the thought of writing your family history send you straight back to bed to hide under the covers? You're not alone. Most family historians agree that they enjoy research the most. What if there was an easier, more manageable way to share your family history, while telling the life stories of your ancestors in an interesting and factual way? There is.Tell It Short: A Guide to Writing Your Family History in Brief comes to the rescue, guiding and inspiring you to craft family history essays-the nonfiction version of the short story. Tell It Short gives those interested in writing their family history an alternative to the all-encompassing book by exploring the creative nonfiction essay fo...
The women of our past led fascinating lives. Not only were they mothers and teachers who shaped their families' identities, they were also moral reformers and pioneers in their own right. But, compared with the men in our past, researching women is distinctively challenging. In this compressive and unique guide, renown professional genealogist Sharon DeBartolo Carmack will teach you how to uncover not just the details about a woman's life from typical records such as censuses, vital records, cemetery records, and so forth, but also how to learn the social history of the everyday lives of ordinary women, then how to write their stories.For genealogists, historians, or anyone interested in res...
This work is a resource of pictures of ships which engaged in transporting our ancestors to the North American continent, mostly in the last one hundred fifty years"--Introduction.