Genealogy category: 715 books

Every family historian has child ancestors, and childhood experiences and records are an essential aspect of research into a past life. That is why Sue Wilkes's detailed and accessible handbook is such a useful guide for anyone who is trying to find out about the early years of their forbears. In...

Planting Your Family Tree Online is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of creating a genealogy Web site. When people begin their genealogical adventure, they usually interview elderly members of the family and contact other family members. The next step is usually one of...

Have you ever wanted to study the genealogy of your family history, but didnt know where to start? When author Julie C. Marlow got the desire to learn more about her heritage, she began by interviewing older family members and friends to hear their stories and get answers to some of her questions....

After attending for many years Diop conferences in USA, Dr Assoumou explains how the origins of someone are important for anybody. He begins by telling why he was interested in social sciences even if he is a surgeon. He focuses on his village, and it can be the same examples in many other villages...

Reliable genealogical conclusions depend on reliable data. Central to any good investigation is an appreciation of where the data came from so that other investigator can re-examine it and re-establish the conclusions reached. Genealogy is little more than anecdote when the sources for facts are not...

Bonanno family members lived mostly in Brooklyn and Manhattan in 1920. Some resided in the Bronx and Queens also. Their professions ranged from police detectives to laborers for the city of New York. Clothing was the most prominent industry of employment of Bonannos at the time. Most all of the persons...

Township of South Dumfries 1869-1870 - Book 4 of Gazetteer & Directory series for Brant County, Ontario. A primary Genealogy and Family History source for Ontario Canada. Finding an ancestor here, can then provide a possible census return location for 1851, 1861, 1871 and possibly right up to 1891.Brant...

Part 1. A genealogy of some of the descendants of William Owen (1611-1702) and Elizabeth Davis (1629-1702) who came from England to Massachusetts and were married in Braintree, MA, 29 JUL 1650. Their children were: Daniel Owen (b.1 AUG 1651; buried on 14 AUG 1651); Deliverance Owen (1654-1715) who...

Farmers Directory circa 1891 for selected counties within southern Ontario, Canada.Primary source documentation for Family History and Genealogy researchers within the geographical area bordering Lake Erie. Sample entry includes Surname, christian name or initials, and a post office address,...

ARRIVING IN AMERICA DESTINATION THE SOUTH captures Taylors twenty-five year journey in unearthing the buried history of her maternal and paternal family, trekking the paths of her ancestors, before Emancipation (1863). This journey took her back several generations, from the North, South, East and...

In Their Footsteps is a Genealogical compilation of approximately 900 individuals and the story of how this Palmer Family came to be and where it came from. As one might expect, the geography of a complicated genealogy such as this one has several disparate locations of importance. Thankfully, these...

A Farmsteadin Morgan County, IN has stood as a sentinel on the South West corner of Mooresville since 1859 whenWilliam Monroe Macy (WMM), 1820-1911, built the home. It stands in 2010 as the residence of Donovan and Joyce Robinson. WMM was prosperous by local community standards of the period, however,...

The purpose of this book is to give beginners a guidebook on how to get started in climbing their family tree. I will not get into too much detail but offer enough explanation so one may quickly learn what to do and where to look. I will give examples of the records and documents being discussed and...

A detailed genealogy of the William and James McKay and related families from County Antrim Ireland to Western Pennsylvania.