Searching for Your Ancestors,9780816619900

Searching for Your Ancestors

by Doane, Gilbert Harry; Bell, James B.
Edition: 6th
ISBN13: 9780816619900
ISBN10: 0816619905
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary

This lively text provides step-by-step guidance to help you: construct a family tree, trace elusive ancestors, discriminate between promising leads and false information, and use new computer research methods, both in the United States and abroad.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
PART I How to Search for Your Ancestors
Ancestors: Facts and Legends
3(14)
How to Search among the Relatives
17(15)
What about Those Family Traditions?
32(10)
Out of the Family Papers
42(14)
Digging in Books and Libraries
56(16)
Blowing the Dust Off the Town Records
72(15)
Inscriptions in Cemeteries
87(15)
Where There's a Will There's a Way
102(13)
What You Can Find in the Church Records
115(10)
Government Aid in the Search
125(24)
How to Arrange a Genealogy
149(9)
New Tools for Important Tasks: The Computer and the Camcorder
158(25)
PART II Special Searches
Searching for Your Ancestors in North America
183(12)
Native Americans
183(5)
Canada
188(2)
Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba
190(5)
Searching for Your Ancestors Overseas
195(58)
African-American Ancestors
202(8)
Jewish Family History
210(4)
England
214(4)
Wales
218(1)
Scotland
219(2)
Ireland
221(3)
Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland
224(7)
The Netherlands
231(2)
Belgium
233(1)
France
233(1)
Switzerland
234(1)
Spain
235(1)
Portugal
236(1)
Italy
237(1)
Germany
238(2)
Austria
240(1)
Hungary
241(1)
Poland
242(2)
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania
244(2)
Yugoslavia
246(1)
Czechoslovakia
246(1)
Russia
247(2)
China
249(2)
Japan
251(2)
Odds and Ends to Help Your Search
253(66)
Appendixes
A. Bibliography
281(13)
B. State Offices of Vital Statistics
294(15)
C. Locations and Areas Served by the National Archives and Records Administration Branches
309(3)
D. Census Records
312(7)
Index 319

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