""This user-friendly volume offers readers an opportunity to understand the craft of genealogy, explore their roots, perform online research, and begin to discover their true identities. Includes new information on the release of the 1930 census, the pros and cons of online research, and creating family trees"--Publisher description."
"Aimed at anyone interested in uncovering their family tree, this guide provides information on the most up-to-date methods and technological techniques for conducting genealogical research and offers tips to overcoming common, but frustrating, obstacles. Original. 12,000 first printing."
"The next best thing to a personal genealogist, this guide gives you all the knowledge to trace your heritage, and sort through the vast amount of information online, in family scrapbooks, in libraries, and at courthouses."@en
"Offers instructions for researching genealogies through the use of interviews, family papers, wills, and church records."@en