The Weekend Genealogist: Timesaving Techniques for Effective ResearchResearching family history takes time - time that many people just don't have. This book shows them how to maximize their research efficiency by saving time and utilizing what little they have in the best way possible. Melnyk teaches how to make every minute count through step-by-step instruction and sidebars highlighting important tips and procedures. A wide variety of organizational techniques illustrate how to streamline research using everything from research facilities and the Internet to research trips, the postal service and more. Readers will learn how to focus their efforts to get the best results possible in the time available. Selling points: Addresses the very common reader frustration of not having the time necessary to do the work needed. Oganization and research techniques are presented in a clear, easy-to-understand fashion, appropriate for beginner and advanced researcher alike. |
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User Review - Jennifer - GoodreadsThis book was very handy. It gave me a reason to look at records that I never really considered looking at before. It has really wet my apetite to start looking again. Now just to find the time! Read full review
Contents
Controlling the Paper Pile | 21 |
Gathering Information by Mail | 37 |
Getting Your Computer and | 51 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Weekend Genealogist: Timesaving Techniques for Effective Research PBS Ancestor Series |
| Author | Marcia Yannizze Melnyk |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Betterway Books, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Jul 15, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1558705465, 9781558705463 |
| Length | 134 pages |
| Subjects | › Crafts & Hobbies / General Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry |
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