Climbing Your Family Tree (The Official Ellis Island Handbook) is the comprehensive, kid-friendly genealogical primer for the 21st century, and a dramatic story of how and why our ancestors undertook the arduous voyages of immigration to this nation. It teaches kids to track down important family documents, including ships’ manifests, naturalization papers, and birth, marriage, and death certificates; create oral histories; make scrapbooks of photos, sayings, and legends; and compile a family tree.

A full chapter is devoted to the online search, and relevant Internet information has been incorporated into all the other chapters. Also new are more kids’ genealogical stories and a reworked, easier-to-use design, and supporting the book is a Web site that includes record-keeping pages, links to sites in the book, and more. Climbing Your Family Tree has been completely revised, updated, retitled, and filled with detailed guidance on utilizing the Internet.

Alex Haley contributed to Climbing Your Family Tree: Online And Off-Line Genealogy For Kids by writing the foreword.