Tracking Down Your Ancestors: Discover the Story Behind Your Ancestors and Bring Your Family History to LifeResearching your family history can be an absorbing hobby, or a one-off project that your whole family will value and build on. This book is packed with ideas about the different aspects of genealogy and the main free or low cost resources available to help you in your quest. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Online Family Searching | 33 |
Harnessing Internet Sources | 58 |
Your own website | 66 |
Exploring deeper and wider | 88 |
Tearless Transcribing | 90 |
Organised Support | 110 |
Vital Public Records | 124 |
Getting to Know Your Ancestors | 162 |
Prisoners and criminals | 181 |
Jews | 187 |
Appendices | 195 |
2 | 201 |
Genealogy and family history | 223 |
Glossary of terms | 233 |
6 | 256 |