Book Reviews – Charts, Quicksheets, & At-A-Glance Guides

Charts, Quicksheets, & At-A-Glance Guides

 

Kinship Connections

“He’s my semi half brother. He shares three of the same mothers as me.” [Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie] Have you ever felt like identifying your family connections was as confusing as this quote? Was that my second cousin, or first cousin once removed? What is the great-grandchild of my third great-grandmother on my father’s side to me? Fortunately, G. H. Amber came up with an easy way for us to reference our family connections over seven generations. Amber’s two-sided wall chart Kinship Connections features 222 family relationships and blood lines. Amber refers to the chart as “A universal ‘family bush’ which illustrates every type of relationship, by consanguinity (blood) and affinity (marriage), for seven generations”

Flip Books Help Researchers Decipher Gothic Records

Deciphering Gothic Records is a great little flip book designed to help those with German ancestry read and understand older German documents and handwriting. The books contents include information and words common to traditional vital records; including; birth, christenings, marriages, deaths, and burials.

Genealogy At-A-Glance: Immigration Research

Adding to the growing collection of Genealogy At-A-Glance: Immigration Research by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack. In just four laminated pages, Carmack shares a wealth of knowledge for researching you immigrant ancestors. In her own words, “unless you have 100 percent American Indian ancestry, you have immigrant ancestors in your family tree. Our origins are from other places, with some ancestors arriving during the Colonial Period and others arriving only a few decades ago.”  With key information, listed sources, additional references and great tips, this quicksheet is useful to every research not already and expert in immigration. And, even the experts can benefit from a quicksheet which is easy to carry anywhere.

Genealogy at a Glance: French Genealogy Research

If you are looking for French-Canadian research, there are plenty of resources available to help you out; including, a Genealogy at a Glance: French-Canadian Research. However, there are precious few book on researching one’s French ancestors, as in, from France. This makes Genealogy at a Glance: French Genealogy Research, that much more important as a tool to researchers.

Genealogy at a Glance: Italian Genealogy Research

Italy did not become a nation, as we know it today, until 1860. The first “Italians” to migrate to the America’s came during colonial times, coming predominately from the northern region of modern Italy. These first immigrants would have identified themselves with towns or regions, rather than a country. There were, in all, very few early immigrants. However, towards the end of the 19th century, and moving into the 20th century, Italian immigration expanded dramatically. Genealogy at a Glance: Italian Genealogy Research covers key resources and research skills useful in tracing these early Italian immigrants, as well as those who arrived more recently.

Genealogy at a Glance: Scottish Genealogy Research

Scots have a long history of emigration. In the mid-17th century most migrated to European destinations such as Poland, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, France, and Ireland. Later America became a popular destination. By the early 19th century Australia and South Africa also became key destinations. There are now approximately six time the number of people claiming Scottish descent living around the world as there are Scots actually living in Scotland today. Genealogy at a Glance: Scottish Genealogy Research can help those 30 million find their Scottish roots. This guide reveals information about important resource to Scottish records.

Genealogy at a Glance: Virginia Genealogy Research

Does your family line lead to Virginia? In 1810, the tenth state had the largest population in the your country. As the country grew in both population and size, people migrated away from the state. Some coming out west, other to nearby states. Families continued to grow and spread out. How many millions of Americans can trace their roots to this state? Should your research lead to Virginia, then Genealogy at a Glance: Virginia Genealogy Research may help you find the answers you are looking for.

Quicksheet: The Historical Biographer’s Guide to Cluster Research (the FAN Principle)

Elizabeth Shown Mills, is an expert researcher and family historian. Her works include top selling books on proving and citing sources: Evidence!: Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian and Evidence Explained, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Mills has also written a number of Quicksheets covering research methodologies designed to improve the accuracy and success of the overall research process. One such guide, written by Mills, is Quicksheet: The Historical Biographer’s Gide to Cluster Research (the FAN Principle).

Quicksheet: The Historical Biographer’s Guide to the Research Process

In her book Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, Elizabeth Shown Mills discusses successful research through a series of models. These models are outlined in Quicksheet: The Historical Biographer’s Guide to the Research Process. According to Mills, “reliable research is not achieved by trolling the Internet for a name, using indexes and databases as though they were actual records, or accepting uncritically whatever conclusions others tout.

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