History for genealogists : using chronological time lines to find and understand your ancestors
(2016)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Local History/Genealogy/929.1072/JACOBSON,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Genealogy Local History/Genealogy/929.1072/JACOBSON,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Baltimore, Maryland : Clearfield, [2016]
©2016
EDITION
Revised edition with 2016 addendum incorporating editorial corrections to the 2009 edition /
DESCRIPTION

x, 310 pages ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780806357683, 0806357681, 9780806357683
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence