Unofficial Ancestry.com Workbook: A How-To Manual for Tracing Your Family Tree on the #1 Genealogy Website - Softcover

Hendrickson, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440349061 ISBN 13: 9781440349065

Publisher: Family Tree Books, 2017

Synopsis

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Ancestry.com!

Ancestry.com keeps growing, but how can you find your ancestors on the huge and ever-changing site? In this workbook, an essential companion to the Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com, you'll learn how to use Ancestry.com to its full advantage with detailed guides to searching Ancestry.com's digitized records. Each section briefly discusses how to search Ancestry.com for a particular type of record (including census records, vital records, and historical publications), then shares detailed, illustrated tutorials that put those strategies into practice. And with the worksheets and genealogy forms in each section, you can easily plan your own Ancestry.com searches and apply what you've learned.

The workbook features:

   • Introductions to using the seven most important record groups on Ancestry.com, plus tips to navigate AncestryDNA and use DNA test results in your research
   • Step-by-step case studies showing how to use Ancestry.com to find ancestors and solve research problems
   • Fill-in worksheets and forms that let you apply the book's techniques to your own research

Packed with expert advice, handy worksheets, and real-life search scenarios, this workbook will give you the hands-on knowledge you need to mine Ancestry.com for your family's records.

About this title

About the Author

Nancy Hendrickson, San Diego, CA, ancestornews.com. Nancy is the author of the bestselling Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com. An online genealogy expert, she has been interviewed in the New York Times and Better Homes and Gardens.

Edition details

• Publisher: Family Tree Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440349061
• ISBN 13: 9781440349065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192