Chicago Genealogist
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Page : 600 pages
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Release : 1993
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Page : 600 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
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Author : Grace Dumelle
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781893121256
In this easy-to-use reference guide, family historian Grace DuMelle provides the means to trace Chicago connections like a pro. She shows not just what to research, but how to research. Without wading through preliminaries, readers choose any of the self-contained chapters that focus on the questions beginners most want answered. Other chapters cover the nuts and bolts of the mechanics that are the key to making a family's past come alive, with highlights summarizing important points. In finding Chicago ancestors, readers will better understand not only their family's history, but also their involvement in the history of a great American city. Midwest Independent Publishers Association Book Award - 1st Place - Hobby/How- To Illinois Woman's Press Association Book Award - 1st Place - Instructional Nonfiction National Federation of Press Women Book Award - 3rd Place - Instructional Nonfiction The Chicago Roots of Your Family Tree For almost 175 years, a great metropolis on the shores of a freshwater sea has sent a siren call to immigrants internal and external, giving most Americans some kind of link to the City of Big Shoulders. Whether your people came west from New England in the early days of settlement, or north from Mississippi in the Great Migration; whether they sailed from Sweden and Sicily, or flew from Budapest and Prague; whether they settled here permanently or temporarily, this easy-to-use reference guide will help you document them. Family historian Grace DuMelle provides the means to trace your Chicago connections like a pro. She shows you not just what to research, but how to research. Without wading through lots of preliminaries, choose any of the self-contained chapters that focus on the questions beginners most want answered and jump right in! Where do I start? When and where was my ancestor born? When did my ancestor come to America? What did my ancestor do for a living? Where did my ancestor live? Where is my ancestor buried? Other chapters cover the nuts and bolts of the mechanics that are the key to making your family's past come alive, with highlights summarizing important points: Examples of documents such as death certificates, church registers and U.S. census entries. Chicago-area research facilities: what they have and how to access it. Researching using newspapers, machines and catalogs. Sources for specific ethnic research. Sources for long-distance research. In finding your Chicago ancestors, you will not only better understand your and your family's history, but also your and your family's involvement in the history of a great American city.
Author : Nadia Abu El-Haj
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0226201406
This volume analyses the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. The author examines genetic history's working assumptions about culture and nature, identity and biology, and the individual and the collective.
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Release : 1988
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Author : Loretto Dennis Szucs
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Reference
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Author : Judith R. Frazin
Publisher : JGSI: "The Guide"
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : English language
ISBN : 0961351225
This guide is designed for use with one those 19th-century Polish-language civil-registration documents that follow the Napoleonic format. The adoption of this uniform manner of document organization explains why the material in this guide is generally applicable to both Jewish and non-Jewish civil-registration documents.
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 1991-03-01
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ISBN : 9781881125129