Book Description
Katherine Scott Sturdevant shows you how to use social history -- the study of "ordinary people's everyday lives" -- to add depth, detail, and drama to your family's saga. Book jacket.
Author : Katherine Scott Sturdevant
Publisher : North Light Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Katherine Scott Sturdevant shows you how to use social history -- the study of "ordinary people's everyday lives" -- to add depth, detail, and drama to your family's saga. Book jacket.
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Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 2001-05
Category :
ISBN :
Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.
Author : Patricia Law Hatcher
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780916489649
For anyone looking to create a useful, lasting history of your family: This is a book that should adorn the library or bookshelves of all genealogists! Whether you're an amateur or professional, chances are the ultimate goal of your research is to produce a quality family history. Producing A Quality Family History, by Patricia Law Hatcher, guides you through the steps required to create an attractive-and functional--family history report. Learn how to organize your work, how to write the narrative, choose type faces, grammar styles, and punctuation. You'll also see how to create useful bibliographies and discover ways to incorporate photos and illustrations effectively plus much, much more!
Author : Katherine Scott Sturdevant
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Shows readers how to safely collect, preserve, and even publish some of their most treasured written heirlooms.
Author : Gena Philibert Ortega
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1440318336
Celebrate Your Family Recipes and Heritage From Great-grandma's apple pie to Mom's secret-recipe stuffing, food is an important ingredient in every family's history. This three-part keepsake recipe journal will help you celebrate your family recipes and record the precious memories those recipes hold for you--whether they're hilarious anecdotes about a disastrous dish or tender reflections about time spent cooking with a loved one. The foods we eat tell us so much about who we are, where we live and the era we live in. The same is true for the foods our ancestors ate. This book will show you how to uncover historical recipes and food traditions, offering insight into your ancestors' everyday lives and clues to your genealogy. Inside you'll find: • Methods for gathering family recipes • Interview questions to help loved ones record their food memories • Places to search for historical recipes • An explanation of how immigrants influenced the American diet • A look at how technology changed the way people eat • A glossary of historical cooking terms • Modern equivalents to historical units of measure • Actual recipes from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cookbooks
Author : Christine Rose
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 144069091X
This user-friendly volume offers readers an opportunity to understand the craft of genealogy, explore their roots, perform online research, and begin to discover their true identities. Includes new information on the release of the 1930 census, the pros and cons of online research, and creating family trees.
Author : Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 9781558706415
The author shows readers how to create a detailed family history by conducting research, organizing materials, "plotting" a story, and collecting illustrations.
Author : Franklin Carter Smith
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2009-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806317885
Tracing one's African-American ancestry can be uniquely challenging. This guide helps overcome the obstacles and pitfalls of specialized research by offering a proven, three-part approach.
Author : Christine Rose
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781592574308
Describes methods for conducting genealogical research, explains how to trace the history of a family through the use of living sources and public records, and includes updated information on the latest census data, the art of using online research, and guidelines on how to find valuable offline records. Original.
Author : Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1101597879
- Up-to-date techniques for navigating the evolving world of genealogical research - Savvy advice for overcoming frustrating obstacles and of research