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The next best thing to a personal genealogist, this guide gives you all the knowledge to trace your heritage, and sort through the vast amount of information online, in family scrapbooks, in libraries, and at courthouses.
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Table of Contents
Who are you? Why genealogy? ; Start with Mom and Dad ; You're hooked
now what? ; Keeping track of what you find
Finding the trail. The Internet: online any time ; Kissin' kin: how to find them ; A rose by any other name ; Getting the most from libraries ; Your family's hometown
Following the trail. Have you done your homework? ; Making sense of the census ; Researching African American families ; Corresponding effectively
In your ancestors' footsteps. A little traveling music, please ; Courthouses: gateway to the past ; A picnic in the cemetery ; More than news in the newspaper ; Did great-grandpa carry a rifle?
Making sense of it all. Order out of chaos ; Keeping records right ; Gaining historical perspective ; Resolving discrepancies
Expanding your horizon. Spending your money wisely ; After the basics
what?
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-377) and index.

