The African American Researcher's Guide To Online Genealogical Sources: From The Personal Notebook of Genealogist Fallon N. Green - Softcover

Green, Fallon N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477263241 ISBN 13: 9781477263242

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2012

Synopsis

Portable and easy-to-read, the first volume of the African American Researcher's Guide to Online Genealogical Sources, can go with you anywhere. It can fit in your purse, in your desk or in your research bag. Or . . . just add it to your reference library. Well-crafted and concise, this volume is a must-read for any beginning African American Genealogist. A dynamic resource, it is indisputably the best book for African Americans looking to pursue online genealogical research. The African American Researcher's Guide to Online Genealogical Sources outlines essential steps and pinpoints available internet resources. Inside there are links to free and subscription databases, research projects, university studies, transcriptions, compendium genealogies, scanned images, online digital archives, state and local archives, instructional materials, podcasts, wikis, search portals, online directories, historical societies, message boards, mailing lists and hobby groups. If you want to search for your family's genealogy, but don't know where to start this is the book for you.

About this title

About the Author

Fallon Nicole Green is an Author and is Managing Partner of African American Genealogy with Fallon Green a South Carolina-based family run, small press genealogical publishing company that specializes in producing study companions and reference tools geared towards African American Family History Researchers. Fallon Green has over ten years experience doing Family History Research and is the online administrator of the The Gullah Diaspora Project, a site for those requesting help searching Gullah Genealogies. This is a website dedicated to uniting all Gullah Descendants Worldwide by providing free guidance on family history research as well as by transcribing and indexing state and local records that are specific to the History of the Sea Islands and the cultural preservation of the American Story of the Gullahs. She is the Founding Member of the 2nd SC Chapter of the Sons and Daughters of the United States Colored Troops and is the online administrator of its flagship initiative, the previously mentioned, soon to be launched Gullah Diaspora Project 2012. Fallon Green currently works for the Foundation for the National Archives in Downtown Washington, DC and is an active member of several civic, research and volunteer groups within the city. She is a Fourth Generation Descendant of Civil War Soldier Private Shedrick Manego, Company E of the 34th Regiment of the United States Colored Troops. Who fought in and participated in such engagements as The Battle of Honey Hill, The Combahee Ferry Raid and the Battle of Olustee. A Beaufort, SC contemporary of Robert Smalls, Shedrick Manigo himself would go on to "Preach the Pulpit" following the Civil War and would build the church that still stands today and serves his home community, Second Gethsemane Baptist Church.

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477263241
• ISBN 13: 9781477263242
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264