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Discovering Your Roots: An Introduction to Genealogy (Great Courses) (Teaching Company) Course No. 9394 - Softcover

John Philip Colletta

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9781629970769: Discovering Your Roots: An Introduction to Genealogy (Great Courses) (Teaching Company) Course No. 9394

Synopsis

15 Lectures 1 Interviewing Kin and Mining Home Sources 2 Genealogy Online-Gems and Junk 3 The Library-Shelves Full of Family History 4 Military Service and Homestead Records 5 How to Build Historical Context 6 Your Ancestors in Ship Passenger Lists 7 Your Ancestors in Naturalization Records 8 The Genealogical Proof Standard 9 Your Ancestors in the County Courthouse 10 Your Ancestors in State Records 11 How to Write Biography 12 Dos and Don'ts of Writing History 13 Searching in Your Ancestors' Backyards 14 Assembling an Account of Your Discoveries 15 Extending Your Family Tree Overseas

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