Book 1:  Beginner to Intermediate

Book 2:  Colonial to Medieval

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BOOK 1

BEGINNER

• 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

• 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 One:  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

BOOK 2

COLONIAL

• 21 PLAT MAPPING OLD DEEDS:  Walk Where They Walked
• 22 INDIAN WARS:  Which Way Did He Go?
• 23 COLONIAL RECORDS – I:  Ye Olde Papers
• 24 COLONIAL RECORDS – II – British, Spanish, French, Dutch:  Strangers in Our Midst
• 25 HISTORICAL NOVELS AS RESEARCH:  Treasures in Your Easy Chair
• 26 ANCESTRY, LDS, CYNDI & ARCHIVEGRID:  At Your Service
• 27 CHURCH RECORDS:  Amen to That!
• 28 INSURANCE COMPANIES & BANKS:  All Fired Up
• 29 IMMIGRANTS;  After a Voyage Like That, Who’d Want to Go Back?
• 30 MIGRATION PATTERNS:  He Went Thata Way

MEDIEVAL

• 31 DNA:  Straight from GrGrGrGrGrGr Grampa
• 32 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES:  It’s a Family Thing
• 33 EUROPEAN CHURCH RECORDS:  Parishable
• 34 SOLDIERY:  Who Goes There?
• 35 GUILDS:  It’s a Crafty Business
• 36 READING MIDDLE ENGLISH:  You Call That English?
• 37 ARCHIVES BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES:  That’s Really Old
• 38 VISITATIONS –  MEDIEVAL CENSUSES & PEDIGREES:  Counting Those Who Most Counted
• 39 ROYALTY & PEERAGE:  So You Have Royal Blood in You
• 40 GENTRY –  Knights, Gentlemen & Yeomen:  Gentleman’s Gentleman

• Appendix 8:  STATE ARCHIVES
• Appendix 9:  IMMIGRANT SOURCE CODES
• Appendix 10:  US CHURCH ARCHIVES
• Appendix 11:  LATIN WORDS FOUND IN PARISH RECORDS
• Appendix 12:  17^TH CENTURY WORDS THAT ARE OBSOLETE TODAY
• Appendix 13:  A SAMPLING OF VISITATIONS IN ENGLAND
• Appendix 14:  PEERAGES IN ENGLAND

ILLUSTRATIONS

Chapter 33 – EUROPEAN CHURCH RECORDS

•             Christening Record
•             Marriage Record

Chapter 36 – READING MIDDLE ENGLISH

•             Old/Middle English Alphabet

Chapter 38 – MEDIEVAL CENSUS

•             Domesday Book of 1086

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