TABLE OF CONTENTS 

BEGINNER HALF

• 1 BIRTH AND MARRIAGE RECORDS:  Live a Little, Love a Little
• 2 DEATH RECORDS:  Going, Going, Gone
• 3 INTERVIEWING RELATIVES:  Did I Ever Tell You The Story About…
• 4 ORGANIZATION:  Now Where Did I Put That?
• 5 GETTING LOCATIONS RIGHT:  They Lived Someplace That Didn’t Exist Yet?
• 6 CENSUS RECORDS – I:  You’re Howwww Old?
• 7 OLD HANDWRITING:  18^th & 19^th Centuries – Watch Your P’s and Q’s
• 8 LIBRARIES & INTERNET:  Great Grampa’s In Cyberspace
• 9 MILITARY RECORDS:  Late 19th to Early 20th Century
• 10 CENSUS RECORDS – II:  Make the Jots and Tittles Count

INTERMEDIATE HALF

• 11 YEARLY TAX RECORDS:  You Mean Taxes Were Good?
• 12 FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS:  Where the Good Ole Boys Gathered
• 13 CIVIL WAR:  Now you quit hitting your brother!
• 14 MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR:  Hey, Amigos!
• 15 GENEALOGY TRIPS – I:  Away! I’m Gone Away!
• 16 GENEALOGY TRIPS – II:  On the Road Again
• 17 WAR OF 1812:  That’s Mine! No, It’s Mine!
• 18 REVOLUTIONARY WAR – I:  Family Feud
• 19 REVOLUTIONARY WAR – II:  The Apron Strings Finally Cut
• 20 NEWSPAPERS:  Nose for News

• Appendix 1:  STATE DEPARTMENTS
• Appendix 2:  US CENSUS CATEGORIES
• Appendix 3:  NICKNAMES AND LATINIZED NAMES
• Appendix 4:  SAMPLE DEEDS
• Appendix 5:  SAMPLE WILLS
• Appendix 6:  U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES
• Appendix 7:  NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES BY STATE

ILLUSTRATIONS

Chapter 2       DEATH RECORDS

•             Grown-up Cemetery
•             Cleared Cemetery

Chapter 13     CIVIL WAR

•             Muster Rolls
•             Muster Out
•             Pension 1
•             Pension 2

Chapter 17     WAR OF 1812

•             Soldier’s Record

Chapter 19     REVOLUTIONARY WAR

•             Promotion
•             Accounting

Chapter 20     NEWSPAPERS 

•             Newspaper Page from 1629
•             Runaway Slave Ad from 1736
•             Virginia Gazette Page from 1772