The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy - Hardcover

Val D. Greenwood

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9780806305608: The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy

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A definitive textbook and an all-purpose reference, this new work constitutes the most important advance in genealogy since the beginning of vital records. It is a detailed examination of the various types of records that can be found in specific areas and in specific time periods; it identifies and classifies the records, groups them in convenient tables and charges, gives their location, explains there uses, and evaluates each of them I'm the context of the research process. Whether ship passenger lists or census records or marriage registers are under discussion, the author interprets the background, gives an account of the original records, analyzing their uses, and instructs the genealogists in the basic principles governing research in that particular class record.

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ISBN 10:  080631267X ISBN 13:  9780806312675
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1990
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