- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Reader's Digest Association; Reprint edition (May 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0762103086
- ISBN-13: 978-0762103089
- Product Dimensions: 26.6 x 20.1 x 1.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 966 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #332,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
The most extensive and Internet-savvy resource of its kind available, with winning techniques for tracking your ancestors' lives.
In a class by itself when it comes to reference guides for the journey, The Genealogy Handbook opens all avenues for tracking down distant forebears and discovering long-lost living relatives. Exhaustive and immediately useful, this unbeatable book delivers critical tools and proven techniques for research with results--from finding clues within the routineclutter around a house to mining public archives to maximizing the World Wide Web.
Step by step, this hands-on resource shows how to start with evidence on-hand-old letters, photos-then get more. Along the way, it cheers on searchers with dramatic, real-life cases.
* Interview relatives and glean fresh insights from familiar anecdotes.
* Decipher antique handwriting and archaic language.
* Uncover clues in wills and probate documents.
* Maximize the data in census and cemetery records.
* Transform time-worn unidentified photographs into helpful sources.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Genealogy Handbook: The Complete Guide to Tracing Your Famil,
By "xanadid" (Lacey, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Geneology Handbook: The Complete Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree (Hardcover)
Yes, I agree, this is the best beginning genealogy book. I wanted to give my mother something practical, yet not overwhelming, so she could start researching our roots. I found this book in my local library and had trouble returning it! Reader's Digest is the publisher and there is no dispute to the quality of material within. It is easy to read, chapters are logical, and the indices are an added bonus. A great purchase, especially at the Amazon price.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent,
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This review is from: The Geneology Handbook: The Complete Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree (Hardcover)
This is the best Genealogy book available!!! If you only buy one book on tracing your family tree this is it!
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4.4 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews) 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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excellent launching point for your genealogical research,
By Robert Reid - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Genealogy Handbook: The Complete Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree (Paperback)
I'm just getting started with my Genealogical research, and after feeling a bit overwhelmed with the possibilities, I bought a couple of books to help me develop a "roadmap."Given the conciseness of this text and the beautiful graphic design and layout, I was expecting this to be shorter on substance than my other (much lengthier) book, "How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy." However, the old family photographs and pictures of census records and immigration documents are inspiring, while the mini-case studies help put the descriptive text in context. The eight concise chapters seem to cover the essential range of topics, including interviewing and collection techniques, archiving, creating family trees, using the internet as a tool, and planning a genealogy research trip. Family history research is not rocket science, and while much of what is described is common sense, this book focuses on pointing out key internet and library resources and recommending methods for interviewing as well as making use of the experience of naturally helpful librarians and archivists. I was particularly impressed by the clarity and relevance of the chapter on internet searches, which assumes no previous background and probably well accommodates even the largely senior demographic of family historians. Relevant sub-topics include a conceptual overview of how email works, basic netiquette, and pointers to helpful online resources. Appropriately, computer technology is a dominant theme throughout the book, and the author makes particular note that with modern technology, genealogical research is a whole lot less tedious than it used to be. One example of a good idea I hadn't thought of, is bringing a digital camera on research trips to take snapshots of archival documents. I'm sure I'll come back to this book as a "reference" during various stages of my search, but that didn't stop me from reading this from cover to cover. 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Genealogy Handbook: The Complete Guide to Tracing Your Famil,
By "xanadid" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Geneology Handbook: The Complete Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree (Hardcover)
Yes, I agree, this is the best beginning genealogy book. I wanted to give my mother something practical, yet not overwhelming, so she could start researching our roots. I found this book in my local library and had trouble returning it! Reader's Digest is the publisher and there is no dispute to the quality of material within. It is easy to read, chapters are logical, and the indices are an added bonus. A great purchase, especially at the Amazon price.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Genealoyy Resourse,
By Vincent G. Hollister, Jr. - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Genealogy Handbook: The Complete Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree (Paperback)
I found the book initally at my local library and decided it was very usefull and wanted my own copy so I found it at [...]. It very well layed out and would be an excellent guide for begineers to genealogly as well as a resourse of info for the experienced geanologist as well.
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