The Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Family Tree - Softcover

Blake, Paul; Collins, Audrey

 
9780572031602: The Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Family Tree

Synopsis

This lively and appealing book makes genealogy easy, exciting, sociable, inspiring and accessible to everyone. This fantastically useful guide refreshingly side-steps the uninspiring tasks of traditional genealogical research. Beginning with mapping the immediate family in clear, easy steps, it opens up the subject to every reader. Packed with useful information and a common-sense approach, it advises on everything from websites to war records, how to organise research and the joy of knitting it all together.

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Synopsis

Why you should stock this book? Genealogy is a strong and growing market looking for up-to-date ideas and information sources. This unique approach starts with a checklist of questions to ask Mum, Dad & Gran etc. plus essential Internet sites. A comprehensive, well-illustrated, step-by-step guide to the useful resources of 19th and 20th century information, it contains up-to-date reference tools, website contacts and newsgroups. Created by two experienced writers on genealogy who are regular contributors to "Family History" monthly and professional genealogy researchers. Why your customers will buy this book? This lively and appealing book makes genealogy easy, exciting, sociable, inspiring and accessible to everyone. This fantastically useful guide refreshingly side-steps the uninspiring tasks of traditional genealogical research. Beginning with mapping the immediate family in clear, easy steps, it opens up the subject to every reader. Packed with useful information and a common-sense approach, it advises on everything from websites to war records, how to organise research and the joy of knitting it all together.

About the Author

Paul Blake lectures widely on a variety of subjects related to family history. Maggie Loughran is administrator of the Federation of Family History Societies. She regularly lectures and contributes articles on family and local history to various journals and magazines.

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