Genealogy category: 715 books

In 1914 Australia joined England and declared war on Germany and it's allies. In the small New South Wales town of Cootamundra 6 young Australians, all from the same family, individually joined the fight. This saga follows their journeys through Gallipoli and the Western Front. The saga also covers...

Strategies for Happiness, Success, and Liberty is not just any ordinary autobiography; it is something immigrants or those contemplating to be will find helpful with its thirty one common sense guidelines and the eleven life tenets. Test yourself, challenge yourself, and find out for yourself, encourages the author

It doesn't matter who you talk to, everyone thinks their generation was the best. Even those who experienced tremendous hardships recall mostly the good bits, and my Grandma is no exception.Whilst she's survived two world wars and been surrounded by lots of death, endured years of...

Starting from an infants point of view, this story in verse sees the Valesman and his farm, the animals and birds and beauty spots and seaside holidays of former Yorkshire days. The book cover drawing, of going with his father to meet grandad, comes from the five-year old at village school. Narrative verse follows the growing boys tricks. Something here for all ages.

This is a book of short stories providing an awakening for the broken/forsaken hearts and minds of a broken people.

Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle...

Volume 3 of The Encyclopedia of the Lacharité, Lampron, and Desfossés Families in North America is a narrative that explores the second generation of families, where they were born, married, and died along with descriptions of where they lived and what other events shaped or contributed to their...

This fully revised second edition of Chris Paton's best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to make effective use of the internet in your family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace...

Never before has the wide array of Mormon family history sources been gathered into one comprehensive and easy-to-use guide. In A Guide to Mormon Family History Sources, author, professor, and lecturer Kip Sperry explains electronic databases, websites, microfilm collections, indexed, and more, all...

This rich and darkly funny novel is about family history and the risk and power of knowledge.'I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water.' Janine's mother had an obsession: her ancestry. But what...

The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian in mind, and it is packed with advice on how to explore and get the most from the census records. As well as describing...

For millions of Americans, home means Italy, where their roots started years ago. In Finding Your Italian Ancestors, you'll discover the tools you need to trace your ancestors back to the homeland. Learn how and where to find records in the United States and Italy, get practical advice on deciphering...

Como devemos nos dirigir a um Rei? Um Sultão é a mesma coisa que um Califa? Quem era mais importante, um Duque ou um Barão? Que cargos havia nas cortes da Idade Média? Para responder a essas e a outras perguntas de curiosos pelas organizações sociais e militares através do tempo, a Editora...

When starting a family history project, where do you begin? For me, the answer is simple: Genesis. Being a man, a man of science, I find that as I get older, science has proven more and more that the truth is very simple. In the opening statements of Genesis, God created the universe as we know it...