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This major contribution to young adult genealogy studies helps create ethnic pride, self-esteem, and awareness of the extraordinary accomplishments each ethnic group has brought to the American experience. Designed for use in grades 6-12, this important new series explores the creation of the American people while promoting the use and understanding of solid research techniques. Oryx American Family Tree Series enhances the social studies curriculum--especially the thematic strands in the New Curriculum Standards for Social Studies-- * culture, time, continuity, and change * people, places and environment * individual development and identity * individuals, groups, and institutions * power, authority, and governance * global connections While using the volumes in this series, young adults experience a uniquely personalized opportunity to practice the historians craft as they learn how to collect data, obtain and evaluate documents and sources, use the latest electronic tools for researching, and conduct and record eyewitness accounts of historical events in family life. The volumes carefully describe the challenges unique to researching each ethnic group or region. Also explained are the "why" and "how" of tracing their roots if users are adopted or come from nontraditional families. Also, each book in the series provides basic historical and cultural background information. As young adults explore their cultural heritage, they gain self-esteem, personal identity, and ethnic pride. Each volume in the Oryx American Family Tree Series is packed with hundreds of annotated bibliographic references for print, electronic, and media sources, as well as many helpful organizations. Every book is lavishly illustrated with 4-color and black and white photographs throughout and features a glossary and an index. The series is published in sturdy 6" x 9" casebound volumes of approximately 200 pages printed on acid-free paper. ... Read more

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A medieval tradition alleges that the various branches of the Fleming family of the British Isles are descended from the three sons of an earl of Flanders. Pitted against this tradition is the more recent allegation, first made no earlier than the eighteenth century, that unrelated families immigrated in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries to the British Isles from Flanders and independently chose Fleming as a surname.What do historical records have to say concerning these two opposing views? In this publication it is asserted that the records are unanimously in favour of ancient tradition and that the modern allegation is nonsense.The traditional "earl of Flanders" was in reality a man named Erkenbald, the son of an exiled Flemish nobleman living in Normandy during the first half of the eleventh century. Erkenbald the Fleming came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066, and through him are the Flemings of the British Isles descended from one of the great noble houses of Flanders. ... Read more

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Thunder Over New England: Benjamin Bonnell, The Loyalist. A Loyalist Story & Family Genealogy Including Other Loyalist Bunnell/Bonnell Genealogies - ByPaul J. Bunnell, FACG, UE. This is the one that started itall! Paul’s first book, Thunder Over New England, was originally published in 1988 and comprised 103 pages. It had a great sales track record through the years. This new edition contains a large amount of added historical facts, genealogy and index.
Chased out of New Jersey for helping the British pass counterfeit money, Benjamin Bonnell and family flee to New York City as refugees. There, he signs up with Brigadier General Benedict Arnold in his special bodyguard unit, The American Legion, and they go on to destroy New London and Fort Griswold, Connecticut in 1781. In 1783, a defeated lot, the Loyalists leave New York City in the "Great Exodus," heading for Nova Scotia to start a new life in a hostile wilderness. This story would make a great movie about our forgotten Americans. Step aside, "The Patriot;" here comes "The Loyalist!"
Besides telling a valuable story for Loyalist descendants, this book contains many names of other Loyalists and some Patriots, including other Bunnell/Bonnell Loyalists and their genealogies and historical facts. And let us not forget about the famous encounter with Ben’s ghost in 1985 and all the other strange events that followed, all updated and included in this new edition. 2003, 328pp., index, paper.
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Doing genealogical research is essentially an exercise in information-gathering. One result of living in the 'information age' is that information is becoming an engine of our economy, viewed from the perspective of its commercial value. However, democracies traditionally view access to information as a cornerstone, enabling societies to remain free and democratic. The organs of the law (legislatures and the judiciary) are becoming involved in striking a balance between these two impulses. Because genealogists are intimately involved with information, a number of these changes in the legal environment have a direct impact on your work. And there are legal differences depending on whether you are doing personal research or working for others for pay.

The development of digital records and broad access to the web has revolutionized the ways in which genealogists approach their investigations - and has made it much easier to locate information relevant to any particular genealogical inquiry from sources often separated by vast distances. The law, on the other hand, remains very connected to particular geographic locations. This book will discuss the relevant laws - access to information, protection of personal data and copyright - applicable to those working within Canada with materials that are located, at the time you are doing the work, in Canada. The opinions expressed in this book are not intended as legal advice.

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All About Geneology

Have You Ever Wondered Where You Got Your Blue Eyes?
Are the Stories About Your Great-Great-Grandparents Fading Away?
Wish You Could Travel Back in Time to Explore Your Heritage?

Get the Answers to Those and More Burning Questions and Preserve Your Family History for Years to Come!

Chances are that you’ve pondered on at least one of those questions on occasion. Learning about our roots seems to be a natural human desire. We have this natural curiosity to learn everything we can about our history not Relying on siblings to provide anecdotal memories shared when you were all children is not a comprehensive solution when you are trying to put together a factual report.
Why is that?

The best answer lies in a game that we all played as children.It’s the game where you assemble a circle of children then whisper something in the ear of one child.He or she, in turn, whisper the comment in the ear of the next child and so on.

Now, every child had the best of intentions in presenting the comment accurately.Yet, by the time the comment is whispered all around the circle it is usually a totally convoluted story!Each of those children changed just a word or two and presented it from their perspective.

That doesn’t make any of them right or wrong.It just portrays how we all perceive something subjectively rather than objectively.

How do you fix it?

Well, you need to find out how to research and preserve our personal family history.That’s not to say that the anecdotal stories are out of place merely that you begin to merge the subjectivity with fact.

Genealogy is the method you should use to discover everything you can about your ancestors, recent and ancient.The challenge is that many people have no idea about where to begin, let alone conduct the research necessary to ferret out the facts.

But I don’t know where to begin?

Well, that changes here and now.We are pleased and proud to introduce you to “All About Genealogy” a comprehensive guide to genealogy.This guide includes everything you need to know in order to begin the search for your roots!

Not only will you learn how to search out information about your family, you will also find a complete chapter dedicated to searching international records.

One of the most difficult tasks is tracing Native American Ancestry.We also give you pertinent help when seeking that information including how to avoid scams when doing so.
Add that to spellbinding discussion of names and their symbolism and the study of coat of arms and you have one jam-packed resource in “All About Genealogy.
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The chapter on information gathering alone is absolutely outstanding!We also teach you how to use the Internet to your advantage including a list of the genealogy search engines.You’ll be happy to know that there are plenty of no cost resources out there to help you in your search.

Once you’ve accomplished the task you set out to do take your result and gift your family members with your complete research.Not only will that help to preserve your family history you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have given them a one of a kind treasure.
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If you have picked up this book you may well already be collecting information about your family and its history. You have names, dates, places, and often more detailed information concerning the lives of many departed relatives - possibly going back centuries. So have you ever considered writing it up and leaving your archive for present family members and future generations to enjoy? Perhaps you have been put off by a lack of time, or the fear of criticism when others begin reading your work? Your worries are unfounded, says John Titford. Writing up your family's history and preparing it for publication, can be one of the most rewarding things you ever do. In this book he explains how straightforward the whole process can be, from getting started and assembling the material you have, to actually writing and then producing it yourself in a printed form, simply and inexpensively. There is carefully presented advice on all aspects of the process including editing, laying it out, printing, and the costs that may be involved.The result of all your labours need not be costly, and will almost certainly bring immense satisfaction to you and your family. Titford's book offers a stimulus of practical encouragement to all those involved with tracing their ancestors. ... Read more

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Probably the best thing published on this subject
African-American genealogy is a field that few non-Black researchers know very much about, myself included. The essentials of family research are generally the same, of course, and this well-written book reflects that -- but there are also a great many special considerations, techniques, and applications of old ideas that Woodtor presents clearly and in detail. Several chapters lay out the basic principles for the novice: Working backward from the living generation, moving from the known to the unknown, developing good research habits, checking all the sources, and so on. But they also point out the importance of oral tradition among African-American families, the necessity of identifying the last slave owner, and the tendency among many families to "disremember" unpleasant periods or relationships in the past. The author also relies on anecdotes, mostly from her own family, to illustrate the research process and to warn of special problems the researcher may encounter. A number of important topics are discussed at length, most of which I had only the most superficial knowledge of. Among these were the several extended exoduses during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including the great out-migration from Edgefield County, South Carolina to Tennesse, Arkansas, and (via Charleston) to Liberia; the "exodusters" movement of 1878-1879 from most of the Od South to Kansas and the Midwest; and the effects of World War I on the formation of a Black artisan and middle-class. Even searching the censuses of 1870-1920 brings special problems for the African-American researcher, since race was often incorrectly reported and surnames often changed over time. Another important consideration is possible enlistment in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil War; this is especially true for Louisiana (my special research area), which supplied more enlistees than any other state, North or South. There are several rules to keep in mind in working your way back before 1865: The smaller the slave owner, the fewer the records created. Rather than analyzing nuclear families, one will be looking at lists of slaves in an effort to reconstruct kinship ties. The general principle of working slowly from the present to the past tends to break down in slave research, with very wide gaps between records. In order to understand the movement and selling of more than one million slaves in the South between 1790 and 1860, one must understand the principles and mechanics of the slave trade. And, perhaps most important, the genealogy of slaves is the genealogy of slave owners. The author also explains the reasons behind "protective" slavery and slave ownership by free Blacks, the place of free Blacks in the North before the Civil War, and the question of American Indian ancestry among African-Americans. Several closing chapters discuss special topics, including Caribbean ancestry, sources of African-American institutional records, genealogical research at family reunions, and what to do with your research. I highly recommend this volume to any and all genealogists, regardless of race or ethnicity.

a superb discussion of evidence and sources
Dee Parmer Woodtor, Finding a Place Called Home:A Guide toAfrican-American Genealogy and Historical Identity (New York: Random House,1999) is a superb discussion of resources and methods, with awell-developed (and essential) emphasis on interpreting evidence fromrecords.Includes examples and case studies throughout.The best book ofits genre yet written.

I heartily applaud Dee's efforts
The book itself is beautifully laid out with photos, tables, quotes and sample documents. But don't let the good looks fool you! This book has real meat to it! I heartily applaud Dee's efforts to:

describe the type of records available

suggest how to organize research

handle thedelicacies of slave trading, and the consequential short history of manyAfrican Americans

discuss the usefulness of tracing European ancestry

assist you in finding your own voice during the process

guide readersto a thoughtful presentation of results.

Chapter headingsinclude:

Regaining Our Collective Memory, Reclaiming a Lost FamilyTradition

Beginning Your Genealogical Pursuit

Techniques & Tools

Your Ancestors on Record: The importance of documenting the life cycle

A Place Called Down Home

Unraveling the ties that Bound 1870-1920

Finding Freedom's Generation 1860-1865

Close to Kin, but StillWaiting for Forty Acres and a Mule - Searching for your ancestors duringthe reconstruction

A Long Way to Freedom - The genealogy of your slaveancestors

The Last Slave and the Last Slave Owner

The Records ofSlavery

Reconstructing Families and Kinship in the Slave Community

The Records Freedom Generated

The Last African & the FirstAmerican

Conclusion - Family Reunions & Regaining a CollectiveMemory

Special topics include:

Sources for Advanced Research in SlaveGenealogy

African American Institutional Records

Caribbean Ancestry

American Indian Ancestry

World Wars I & II

What to Do withYour Research - Writing family memoirs or the family story, and 101genealogy research projects waiting to be done

Further Note on CountyCourthouse Records

Personal Recordkeeping with exercises for Beginners

African American and Genealogy Web Sites

African American GenealogySocieties in the United States and Canada.

Dee's bibliography,referenced by chapter, is found on 24 pages of closely spaced lettering --a literal MUST READ set of resources to augment her offerings.

Notablecomments, which ring true to my understanding include:

"...Once youfind the last slave owner, you are using his family history and genealogyas a guide to identify his recorded transactions that named slaves he andhis extended family owned over time using primarily the family's personalrecords, if you can find them, and any public transactions that theyrecorded at the courthouse. " p 275.

"Dotted throughout theSouth are thousands of small African American Churches of every knownProtestant denomination.If there are now approximately 65,000 AfricanAmerican Churches in the United States, over half of them must be in thesouth.

A recent survey reported that 70 percent of African Americansattend church.In each and every county of the historical Black Belt andin every small place where Black folks lived during slavery, you will findthat they established independent churches within a few decades ofemancipation. Many were extensions of churches established during slaveryor through a bequest by a former slave owner."p 107.

RegardingAfrican Americans serving in the military during the US Civil War from page148: "Anoder ting is, suppose you had kept your freedom withoutenlisting in dis army; your chillen might have grown up free and been wellcultivated as to be equal to any business, but it would have been alwaysthrown in dere faces --"Your fater never fought for his ownfreedom." Private Thomas Long, 1st Carolina South Colunteers Cited inBenjamin Quarles, The Negro in the Civil War.

The author, Dee Woodtor,is a member of the Genealogy Forum staff

copyright 2000

A must for a genealogy library
Best book on the market for a genealogical researcher.It is easy to read and reviews in detail, how to reseach your ancestor, who may have once been a slave.It reviews records that other guides do not explain or may notknow exist.Finding this book, when I hit the brick wall was heaven sent. Not only did it help me decide what to do next, but it also help me toreview the work I had did before and to see what steps I had missed.Thisbook should be recommended reading for all genealogical researchers,beginners and advanced.Even though this book details African-Americanresearching, it could be used for all types of genealogical researching.

A wonderful addition to a genealogist's library.
As a serious researcher for over twenty years of various ethnic origins, regions and time periods, I found this book to be packed with information and encouragement for anyone researching African Americans.She not only includes hundreds of resources but gives examples of what you may find. She continually encourages the reader to keep looking and finding slaveancestors is not impossible.She also dimisses many myths about the livesof slaves as well as slaveholders.The book is very readable, for thebeginner or experienced researcher. It is particularly helpful for someonewho believes they have hit a brick wall. The author has combined her bookinto a "book of sources" with a "how-to book" in a mostsuccessful manner.Other genealogy writers would profit by studying hermethodology. ... Read more

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One of America's premiere theologians searches for a proper understanding of the Christian God, which he believes can only be explicated when the question of origin is raised. Altizer discloses the origin of a uniquely Christian freedom while also touching upon such important themes as predestination, the fall, evil, and eternity. Bibliography. Index. ... Read more

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Finding Your Genealogy
What Is Genealogy?
About Your Own Genealogy
Unearthing History
Inheriting an Heirloom
Why Learn About the Past
Genealogy Software
Gathering Information
Getting Outside Help
Your Family's Story
Using the Internet
Searching International Records
Exploring Genealogy Search Engines
Coat of Arms
Names and Symbolism
Tracing Native American Ancestry

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Thorough and Useful Resource
Many thanks to the author for sharing his experiences and helping us to learn how to get successful results. ... Read more

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This work, first published in 1944, provides the most reliable texts of the Lives of Welsh saints based upon the Cotton MS in the British Library from 1200. Out of print for over 50 years this work is still the standard edition of these Lives and is still widely used by scholars today. As well as being the major text for our information concerning the Welsh saints it also contain some of the earliest Arthurian material and are the first to make Arthur a king. The Editors have taken this opportunity to add some additional material in the way of: a new introduction reviewing the scholarship on the subject of Welsh saints over the last 60 years, written by Tristan Gray-Hulse; two new sections by Thomas Jones and J Conway Davies which contain additional information on the texts; a translation and detailed commentary on the Life of St Beuno (Buchedd Beuno) by A W Wade-Evans, not included in the original edition. The lives of 11 saints are included in their original language with a facing page English translation and six genealogical tracts that provide even more biographical information from medieval Welsh tradition. ... Read more

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first published in 1977, black genealogy remains a uniqueguide guide among standard genealogical references.author charlesblockson, a noted genealogist and african american historian, tracedhis own family roots back through the 18th century.along hisjourney, he discovered obstacles and advantages that make searchingfor black family history a rewarding experience. ... Read more

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ancestory
somewhat helpful but not what I was looking for.everything else was great though.

Angry Polemics Mar Book
Unfortunately, I cannotnt recommend Charles L. Blockson, Black
Genealogy because so much of what he writes is either misleading or
unhelpful.Blockson's treatment of Black genealogical records for the
post-slavery era (after 1865) is somewhat adequate but pedestrian.
There are several other commonly-available books that address these
records much better.It is in his treatment of records from the
slavery period that Blockson does his readers the greatest disservice.
His experience with records of slavery seems to be limited to records
of Pennsylvania - which might account for his woefully inadequate
treatment of Southern legal records where most genealogists in search
of slave ancestors may need to look.Some of the most significant of
such records are probate records, deeds, conveyances, and lawsuits
- but the reader would never know it from reading this book.
Blockson devotes a total of only THREE SENTENCES to "wills,
estate inventories, and tax records" (p.71).According to the
single sentence devoted to tax records, their value is merely to
"prove that slaves were valuable assets to ironmasters in the
latter part of the eighteenth century." In his discussion of
Federal Census records (p.45), he says, "Slave schedules were
made for every state. . . with slaves listed under their owners'
names." He fails to explain that slaves are not named in these
censuses, but only listed by age and gender.There is no discussion
of the uses and shortfalls of the slave censuses. Rather than discuss
these most fruitful and likely sources, Blockson urges readers to seek
records of slave "breeding sessions" (p.72), to browse
museum collections for "slave collars" with names on them
(p.75), to search for "branding records" in county
courthouses and branding irons in museum collections (p.75)!These
bizarre recommendations are urged in spite of the fact that the author
does not offer a single example of such things (he admits that it is
"difficult to find any [courthouse branding] records
today"!).Furthermore, if museums have relics such as branding
irons, the author fails to show how finding them would help a
researcher trace his or her ancestors.On p.77, Blockson addresses
the relative difficulty of finding records of slave paternity compared
to slave maternity, but adds, "You may run into problems tracing
your DIRECT family line (father to father)." One has to wonder
why Blockson believes that tracing maternal ancestry is less
"direct" (and by implication, less satisfactory) than
tracing paternal ancestry.Blockson's book is punctuated with
lengthy, angry polemics against slavery and racism, which will
probably be unhelpful to most genealogical searches.The main
objective of Blockson's book seems to be to arouse his readers'
indignation at racism and the "inhuman system of slavery,"
rather than to lead researchers to records of their ancestors.




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By law and by custom women's individual identities have been subsumed bythose of their husbands. For centuries women were not allowed to own real estate in their ownname, sign a deed, devise a will, or enter into contracts, and even their citizenship and theirposition as head of household have been in doubt. Finding women in traditional genealogicalrecord sources, therefore, presents the researcher with a unique challenge, for census records,wills, land records, pension records--the conventional sources of genealogical identification--allhave to be viewed in a different perspective if we are to establish the genealogical identity of ourfemale ancestors.

Whether listed under their maiden names, married names, patronymic/matronymic surnames orsome other permutation, or hidden under such terms as "Mrs.," "Mistress," "goodwife," "wife of," or even "daughter of," it is clear that women are hard to find. But while women may neverbe as easy to locate as their male counterparts, Christina Schaefer here pioneers an approach tothe problem that just might set genealogy on its head! And her solution is simplicity itself: Lookclosely at those areas where the female ancestor interacts with the government and the legalsystem, she advises,where law, precedent, and even custom mandate the unequivocalidentification of all parties, male and female. According to this thesis,the legal status of womenat any point in time is the key to unraveling the identity of the female ancestor, and therefore thiswork highlights those laws, both federal and state, that indicate when a woman could own realestate in her own name, devise a will, enter into contracts, and so on.The first part of the book--a lengthy and informative introduction--deals with the special wayswomen are dealt with in federal records such as immigration records, passports, naturalizationrecords, census enumerations, land records, military records, and records dealing with minorities.All such records are discussed with reference to their impact on women, as are a group ofmiscellaneous, non-governmental records, including newspapers, cemetery records, citydirectories, church records, and state laws covering common law marriages and marriage anddivorce registration.

The bulk of this absorbing new reference work, however, deals with the individual states,showing how their laws, records, and resources can be used in determining female identity. Eachstate section begins with a time line of events, i.e. important dates in the state's history, followingwhich is a detailed listing ofeight key categories of information: (1) Marriage and Divorce(marriage and divorce laws and where to find marriage and divorce records); (2) Property andInheritance (women's legal status in a state as reflected in statute law, code, and legislative acts);(3) Suffrage (information as to when any voting rights were granted prior to the ratification of the19th Amendment in 1920); (4) Citizenship (dates when residents of an area became U.S.citizens); (5) Census Information (special notes on searching federal, state, and territorialenumerations); (6) Other (information on welfare, pensions, and other laws affecting women);(7) Bibliography (books and articles relating to women in the state, historical and biographicalsources, and publications regarding legal history and jurisprudence);and (8) Selected Resourcesfor Women's History (addresses of state archives, historical societies, and libraries; women'sstudies programs, women's history programs, and more).This engrossing new work is as amazing as it is informative: amazing because it shows howwomen have been written out of genealogical history; informative because it demonstrates howtheir identities can be recovered. This is a new and promising path in genealogy, suggestingfruitful avenues of research and many new possibilities. ... Read more

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At last!
A comprehensive source for understanding how laws, traditions and customs impacted womens lives through the years.When and how to look for the usual vital records and where else to look for alternative records if needed.

The Hidden Half of the Family
This book offers many clues for finding that elusive female in our family tree.After 50 years of research I am still learning new ways to find these women and this has given me new paths to go down.Easy to read and very informative.

Excellent book
This was a great transaction.The book is very helpful to me, as I'm very much into genealogy.

Where are they?
This a great guide to help in finding women in families when doing genealogical investigations of one's backgound.This book also clues you into the rights of women during different eras.I was able to find that although African-American, some married women were buried under their maiden names.I even learned about about common-law marriages in different states.

Schaefer deftly presents a pioneering approach
In The Hidden Half Of The Family, genealogist Christina Schaefer directly addresses the very real problem of how to find genealogical records of women, whose names are often subsumed by that of their husbands and whose rights to sign a deed, devise a will, enter into contracts, and other legal acts requiring full citizenship were heavily restricted until very recently. Schaefer deftly presents a pioneering approach to the gender dilemma for genealogical researchers that focuses upon close study of where female ancestors interact with the government and the legal system in which law insists upon the absolute identification of all parties, male and female. Such a technique depends upon knowing the legal status of women in any specific point of time. Therefore The Hidden Half Of The Family features an extensive state-by-state listing of the dates of laws passed with regard to suffrage, property and inheritance, citizenship, census information, marriage and divorce, and much more. A "must-have" resource for anyone struggling with the different of tracking female genealogy, The Hidden Half Of The Family is a critically important, core addition to personal and professional Genealogical Research reference collections. ... Read more

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The Hopper Family Genealogy traces the first six generations of descendants of Andries Willemszen Hoppe or Hoppen, who changed their surname to Hopper. Beginning in New Amsterdam the family moved to Bergen County, NJ and surrounding areas, eventually migrating throughout the United States. The book is 346 pages long with more than 40 illustrations, a gazetteer, and extensive bibliography. The index may be downloaded in the preview. ... Read more

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Searching for Your Ancestors
I have been searching for my ancestors for approx 2 years.I borrowed this book from a friend and found that it had so much information in it that I had to purchase it.It gave me information on more places to searchalong with information on items in history that I hadn't thought of.Thisbook is a big help! ... Read more