Family Trees: A History of Genealogy in America by
This book dives deep into the history of Family trees and how they got started from: Coats of arms, embroidered family trees, local genealogical societies, and bibles. The book goes into detail of the history of how genealogy got started from the rich class to the middle class. It goes on to explain how Ancestry.com, TV shows and more no go into depth with DNA results and findings.
Genealogy Online for Dummies by
This is the perfect book to help you conduct genealogical research. This edition shows you how to leverage social networks and the rapidly increasing number of mobile apps to locate family members and trace their histories. Discover how to start your investigation, develop a research plan of action, and identify sites and resources that will be of the most use to you, get information from government records, preserve electronic materials, and share your findings with the rest of the family. It shows you how to conduct research into family history using the latest online tools, mobile apps, and other resources Explains how to use online and offline research techniques and tools for genealogical research, find and share information with other genealogists, and create your own site to showcase your family tree, digital images, and compiled genealogies Includes access to free versions of Roots, Magic Essentials and Legacy Family Tree Standard Edition as well as information on free websites for storing your genealogical information Covers DNA research and testing, new geocoding applications, U.S. Census information available online, international records, and public access catalogs.
Roots Quest: Inside America's Genealogy Boom by
In this book the author digs into this genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She goes beyond simple demographics, retiring baby boomers with more time on their hands, to show that the surging popularity of genealogy is in part a response to some of the large-scale social changes transforming our lives, such as the increasingly virtual nature of social life, and the sense of rootlessness these transformations provoke. The book explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for authenticity, for deep history, and for an elemental sense of belonging, for roots.
Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA: A Guide for Family Historians by
This book explains why DNA research is one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas in modern science and the practical use of DNA testing in genealogy is one of its most exciting applications. That is why this accessible, wide-ranging introduction is so valuable. It offers a clear and practical way into the subject, explaining the scientific discoveries and techniques and illustrating with case studies how it can be used by genealogists to gain an insight into their ancestry. With the aid of this book, novices who are keen to take advantage of it will be able to interpret test results and use them to help answer genealogical questions which cannot be answered by documentary evidence alone.
Tracing Your Female Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by
This book is an easy-to-use guide for British family historians wishing to trace their female ancestry. Everyone has a mother and a line of female ancestors, and often their paths through life are hard to trace. That is why this detailed, accessible handbook is of such value, for it explores the lives of female ancestors from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the beginning of the First World War. Chapters cover the quintessential experiences of birth, marriage, and death; a woman's working and daily life, both middle and working class; through to crime and punishment, the acquisition of an education and the fight for equality. Each chapter gives advice on where further resources, archives, wills, newspapers, and websites can be found, with plentiful common-sense advice on how to use them. This book is an extraordinary and thoroughly user friendly manual that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library Genealogy collections and supplemental studies lists.
