Genealogy
- Detailed guides for using DNA tests and tools, plus how to analyze your test results and apply them to research
- Real-life success stories that put the book's techniques into practice and inspire you to seek your own discoveries
Reconnect with your roots! Adoptees, foundlings, and others with unknown parentage face unique challenges in researching their ancestors. Enter this book: a comprehensive guide to adoption genealogy that has the resources you need to find your family through genetic testing.
Inside, you'll find:
• Strategies for connecting your genealogy to previous genealogists
• Detailed guides for using DNA tests and tools, plus how to analyze your test results and apply them to research
• Real-life success stories that put the book's techniques into practice and inspire you to seek your own discoveries
In The Birth Certificate: An American History, award-winning historian Susan J. Pearson traces the document's two-hundred-year history to explain when, how, and why birth certificates came to matter so much in the United States. Deftly weaving together social, political, and legal history, The Birth Certificate is a fascinating biography of a piece of paper that grounds our understanding of how those who live in the United States are considered Americans.
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story—from 100,000 years ago to the present.
Family, Slavery, and Love in the Early American Republic collects thirteen of Lewis's most important essays. Distinguished scholars shed light on the historical and historiographical contexts in which Lewis and her peers researched, wrote, and argued. But the real star of this volume is Lewis herself: confident, unconventional, erudite, and deeply imaginative.
A quick reference guide to accredited methods, research strategies, U.S. record groups and more! Also find charts & forms, style sheets, checklists and steps to The Genealogy Organizational Challenge!
Wish you could study the Internet for a couple of years to find useful tools that will help you enjoy more success in your genealogical pursuits? Well Marsha has done just that for you! Benefit from advice on using some of the latest genealogical tools in analysis, education, health, organization, presentations, research and more!
Old photos, ancestor stories, genealogical documents, and heirlooms reflect your family's past--and they should be safeguarded for tomorrow's descendants and researchers. Even if you have no obvious heirs for your genealogy collection, you can take steps today to protect and share information and items from your family history.
Follow the step-by-step PASS process outlined in this book: Prepare by organizing/analyzing your materials, Allocate ownership by curating your collection, Set up a genealogical "will" to designate heirs, and Share family history now. Includes sample forms, online resources, and practical advice for keeping genealogy safe, with future generations and future researchers in mind.