Searching for Your Ancestors

by Doane, Gilbert Harry; Bell, James B.

• ISBN13: 9780816619900
• ISBN10: 0816619905
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

This lively text provides step-by-step guidance to help you: construct a family tree, trace elusive ancestors, discriminate between promising leads and false information, and use new computer research methods, both in the United States and abroad.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I How to Search for Your Ancestors
Ancestors: Facts and Legends	3	(14)
How to Search among the Relatives	17	(15)
What about Those Family Traditions?	32	(10)
Out of the Family Papers	42	(14)
Digging in Books and Libraries	56	(16)
Blowing the Dust Off the Town Records	72	(15)
Inscriptions in Cemeteries	87	(15)
Where There's a Will There's a Way	102	(13)
What You Can Find in the Church Records	115	(10)
Government Aid in the Search	125	(24)
How to Arrange a Genealogy	149	(9)
New Tools for Important Tasks: The Computer and the Camcorder	158	(25)
PART II Special Searches
Searching for Your Ancestors in North America	183	(12)
Native Americans	183	(5)
Canada	188	(2)
Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Cuba	190	(5)
Searching for Your Ancestors Overseas	195	(58)
African-American Ancestors	202	(8)
Jewish Family History	210	(4)
England	214	(4)
Wales	218	(1)
Scotland	219	(2)
Ireland	221	(3)
Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland	224	(7)
The Netherlands	231	(2)
Belgium	233	(1)
France	233	(1)
Switzerland	234	(1)
Spain	235	(1)
Portugal	236	(1)
Italy	237	(1)
Germany	238	(2)
Austria	240	(1)
Hungary	241	(1)
Poland	242	(2)
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania	244	(2)
Yugoslavia	246	(1)
Czechoslovakia	246	(1)
Russia	247	(2)
China	249	(2)
Japan	251	(2)
Odds and Ends to Help Your Search	253	(66)
Appendixes
A. Bibliography	281	(13)
B. State Offices of Vital Statistics	294	(15)
C. Locations and Areas Served by the National Archives and Records Administration Branches	309	(3)
D. Census Records	312	(7)
Index	319