Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy

1989, 2nd HARDCOVER edition, Betterway Books, Cincinnati, Ohio. Oversize hardcover title, 184 pages. "A goldmine, a well written, exceptionally well organized and illustrated text makes this a treasure of a book." Includes the tools researchers need, interview formats, sample letters, worksheets, and the hardware needed and the software available, when using a computer in your search. Also includes more than 20 reproduceable blank forms needed by those who are interested in genealogy.

YA-- An excellent "how-to" book for those interested in investigating their family genealogy, and a good reference for students tracing family trees for history class. This workbook, with its reproducible forms of all kinds, will help those just starting out, as well as those who have already begun to gather material, to organize, and to extend their search. A sample interview letter and checklists of family sources are particularly helpful, as is the relationship chart--especially for answering the "second-cousins-twice-removed" kind of question. Appendix C lists addresses and phone numbers of genealogical libraries and archives, by state. Sources in the United Kingdom and Caribbean are also listed, as is U. S. state census data.
- Carolyn Henebry, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.
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