Discover Your Roots: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Exploring Your Heritage

Blake, Paul; Loughran, Maggie

 
9781904902676: Discover Your Roots: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Exploring Your Heritage

Synopsis

Aims to reveal why we are at it: discovering our ancestors; discovering where they lived; discovering what they did and why they did it. This work offers 52 ideas that get you started on your road to self discovery, with techniques, tricks and secrets from the genealogists.

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Product Description

The authors show readers how they can find out the stories behind the things they love - from family histories to the stories of childhood homes, via the tales behind home towns and the history surrounding favourite places.

Review

"... the approach is certainly original and entertaining, can
spark many new directions, and is clearly well informed by intelligent
authors.."
-- Your Family Tree magazine, August 2006

"Discover your roots will get you started on the road to discovery
with inspired techniques, clever tricks and insider secrets."
-- Gardners Recommends, June 2006

"Easily one of the best `getting started in family history' books
I have ever seen... extremely well written..." -- Ray Hatley on history.uk.com, July 2006

"Easy and fun to read, understand and follow... a real gem...
highly recommended to family historians, beginners and experienced alike." -- Practical Family History magazine, August 2006

"Quick and easy lessons for even the busiest of
enthusiasts...Bursting with ideas for thinking outside the family history
box..." -- Family History Monthly, September 2006

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9780399533228: Discover Your Roots: Dig Up Your Family History and Other Buried Treasures (52 Brilliant Ideas)

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ISBN 10:  0399533222 ISBN 13:  9780399533228
Publisher: Tarcherperigree, 2007
Softcover