Genealogy for Beginners

This book covers everything you need to get started researching your family history or continue a project you’ve already started. It offers practical suggestions from an experienced genealogist, and detailed, step-by-step instructions for carrying out a quality family history research.

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A step-by-step guide to researching your family tree.

Interested in doing your family tree but don’t know how?

Genealogy for Beginners covers everything you need to get started researching your family history or continue a project you’ve already started. You’ll get practical suggestions from an experienced genealogist, and detailed, step-by-step instructions for carrying out a quality family history research.

Topics covered include:



Getting started with a family history research project
Discovering which subscription services are worth the price
Using Ancestry.com effectively
Finding obituaries
Interviewing family members
Preserving and organizing paper and digital files, plus photographs
Getting the most out of DNA testing for genealogy
Conducting cemetery research
Finding and interpreting non-US records
Doing cultural and ethnic heritage research
Finding professional researchers and translators
Keeping up with the genealogy news


With this book in hand, you’re sure to succeed.