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: 18th & 19th 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: 17TH 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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