History for genealogists : using chronological time lines to find and understand your ancestors
Title:
History for genealogists : using chronological time lines to find and understand your ancestors
Author:
Jacobson, Judy.
Personal Author:
Edition:
Revised edition with 2016 addendum incorporating editorial corrections to the 2009 edition / by Denise Larson.
Publication Information:
Baltimore, Maryland : Clearfield, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
310 pages ; 26 cm
Summary:
History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence.
Language:
English
Contents:
Seeing ancestors in historical context -- Creating a timeline -- Why did they leave? -- How did they go? -- Coming to America -- Myths, confusions, secrets and lies -- Even harder to find missing persons -- Social history and community genealogy -- State by state -- Region by region.
ISBN:
9780806357683
Format :
Book
