Tracing Your Ancestry: A Step-By-Step Guide to Researching Your Family History

by F. Wilbur Helmbold

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Explains procedures for searching birth and marriage certificates, wills, land records, maps, tax records, newspaper obituaries, church and cemetery records, old letters, and diaries.

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Original publication date
1976
First words
Introduction: Pursuing your family history is fun.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Of human interests, I can think of none better.
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This work consists of two items that might be cataloged separately.

1. Tracing your ancestry : a step-by-step guide to researching your family history is the main volume.

2. Tracing your ancestry : L... (show all)ogbook (or Tracing your ancestry logbook : a record for your research) is a companion volume for notes.

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Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
929.1History & geographyBiographies, Genealogy, HeraldryGenealogy, Flags, Heraldry, Civil RecordsGenealogies
LCC
CS47 .H44Auxiliary Sciences of HistoryGenealogyGenealogyBy region or country

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