How-To Genealogy Books
Becoming an Accredited Genealogist
If you ever though about getting your accreditation or simply wondered about the process then Becoming an Accredited Genealogist: Plus 100 Tips to Ensure Your Success by Karen Clifford is for you. The International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists grants genealogical accreditation based on the knowledge, training, and integrity of the researcher. Other organizations and schools provide credentials and degrees, but essentially all have the same requirements. This guide covers what you need to know to succeed.
Genealogy At A Glance: Ellis Island Research
Genealogy At A Glance: Ellis Island Research, written by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack, examines the history and the research fundamentals genealogist need to seek their ancestors U.S. entry through this famous island port. Like all the Genealogy At A Glance guide sheets, Ellis Island Research is a four-page, full-color limited guide meant to be easily stored and sized to take with you when conducting related research.
Genealogy At A Glance: Revolutionary War Genealogy Research
There is an entire series of Genealogy At A Glance guide sheets. We have reviewed many here on this blog. Each is a four-page, full-color laminated guide provide a quick reference to specific research topics. In this review we examine the Revolutionary War. Genealogy At A Glance: Revolutionary War Genealogy Research was written by Craig R. Scott, CG. Like each At A Glance, the top of the first page provides contents and quick facts related to the topic.
The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women’s Genealogy, by Christina Kassabian Schaefer, demonstrates h0w to recover the identities of one’s female ancestors. The authors solution to finding ancestors in a patriarchal history that often obscured a women’s identity is to find those government, legal and social area where the unequivocal identification of both men and women was custom. Schaefer expounds on her belief that, “the legal status of women at any point in time is the key to unraveling the identity of the female ancestor.” She examines the history and laws, both federal and state, granting freedoms to women like owning real estate in her own name, ability to enter contracts, devise wills, and other freedoms awarded only to men prior to these changes of law.
How to Preserve Your Family Photo Collection
“How can I best preserve this photograph to endure for generations?” Maureen A. Taylor, author of Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs, helps answer this basic, yet critical, question in her book Preserving Your Family Photographs: How to Care for Your Family Photographs from Daguerreotypes to Digital Imaging. Taylor is a recognized expert in historical photography. She is known for her ability to study photographs for the historical clues that tell stories about the people and events portrayed in the images. Maureen has been featured many times in print and has even appeared on The View, Martha Stewart Living, and The Today Show.
Learning by Example to Overcome Your Toughest Genealogy Problems
What happens when records are misread, or graves turn out to be empty, or when people change their name? These are just a few of the problems genealogists face everyday. Genealogists around the globe have made breakthroughs in resolving these types of difficult problems through creative research and a never-give-up attitude to overcoming obstacles. Family Chronicle magazine called these breakthroughs “Brickwall Solutions.” Recognizing the value the stories and the examples behind these solutions can have for the day to day genealogists, Family Chronicle collected hundreds of these stories from contributors around the world. The compiled result is 500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems, the perfect lead by example book to solving unique research problems.
Protect Your Precious Documents
Every genealogist has something special worth preserving. From their own research to family photographs, from ancestral diaries to family heirlooms there are countless treasures to be collected and given the best preservation possible. Protect Your Precious Documents was written to help genealogist in the preservation process.
Once a genealogist traces his/her ancestral roots to another country, language barriers add to overall complexity in research. Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman was written to help researchers with this very problem. Following the Paper Trail not only acknowledges the need for language assistance, but recognizes that many researches will need help in more than one additional language. This book looks at many languages, dividing them into linguistic families. Similarities within a single family make it easier to identify words and commonalities in other associated languages. For example, the Latin or “Romance” language include French, Latin, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish, which together make up one section of the book.
Recording Your Family History: A Guide to Preserving Oral History
Recording Your Family History: A Guide to Preserving Oral History helps genealogist record living histories while they are still available. The introduction acquaints the reader with the “Life History Interview.” Effectively, audio or video interviews with family members, usually the older members speaking as though to a younger family member. The interview help capture, and thus maintain, family traditions, values, stories, beliefs, and experiences; passing these on to future generations. This book is a guide to capturing these family elements through the oral interview process.
Slave Ancestral Research: It’s Something Else
For 14 years Mary L. Jackson Fears worked diligently on her family’s history. Slave Ancestral Research: It’s Something Else is a narrative of her experiences in researching her slave ancestors. Instead of a how-to book, Fears has created a guide by example. Her her words, “My purpose is to narrate the details of my roots search in a manner to inspire others.”
A Thorough Vetting of Courthouse Research
Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures by Christine Rose is the step by step handbook every genealogist needs for researching court records. Rose brings her experience in researching at over 500 courthouses to bear in one complete guidebook of instructions. Eventually, every genealogist needs courthouse records. This book will prepare you to visit a courthouse in person as well as accessing court records from a distance.
Unpuzzling Your Past, by Emily Anne Croom, is a best-selling basic guide to genealogy. This book does well because it give consideration to way our ancestors lived and not just names and dates. In addition, the book focuses on using living family members as a primary source of data and information on both living ancestors as well as those who have passed. Story telling and interviews are key to the collecting of family history and this book leaves nothing out.