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23%OFFDr Graeme Davis - Your Family Tree Online - 9781845283445 - V9781845283445
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Your Family Tree Online

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Description for Your Family Tree Online Paperback. The internet offers an immensely effective tool for unlocking your family tree. This guide shows you: how to use internet to find out who your family were, and therefore who you are; and how to access the wealth of on-line records to trace your family tree from your own computer, without the need to travel to national and regional record offices. Num Pages: 163 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.

This is a step-by-step guide to using the wealth of online records to trace your family tree from your own computer, without the need to travel to national and regional record offices. Whether you are a novice or an experienced genealogist, and whether you plan to devote just a few hours of your time or embark on a life-time hobby, this book will guide you through the mass of records available - birth, marriage and death, the census, and much, much more - so that you can trace your line back hundreds of years. You will also learn how to upload your results to the internet, both to preserve your family's heritage and to connect with relatives, so that you can exchange photos and reminiscences.

Contents: Welcome!; 1. What the internet offers the genealogist; 2. How to start; 3. Finding records of birth, marriage and death; 4. Using census records; 5. Other major sources; 6. Military; 7. Wills and where to find them online; 8. Migration; 9. Newspapers; 10. Occupations; 11. The poor and workhouse records; 12. Noble ancestors; 13. Directories; 14. School and university records; 15. Working with the wider context; 16. Family medical history; 17. DNA; 18. Working with names; 19. Recording your family tree; 20. Online recording options; 21. Problems of online trees; 22. Finding living relatives; 23. Genealogical miscellany; 24. Accent and dialect; 25. Final; Key websites; Index

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Constable and Robinson United Kingdom
Number of pages
163
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845283445
SKU
V9781845283445
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Dr Graeme Davis
Graeme Davis is a university lecturer and a professional researcher with extensive experience of family tree research, both on-line and off. As materials developer for a university level genealogy course he is familiar with the records needed by on-line researchers. A writer for Your Family Tree magazine, he is also developing new tools to aid the genealogist.

Reviews for Your Family Tree Online
'A clear step-by-step guide to using online resources to trace your family tree from your home computer.' Family Tree. 'Contains a lot of useful knowledge...all that you need to know to get started.' Ancestors. 'It is difficult to identify any online research not covered in the 25 chapters and 157 pages of this paperback 'How To' guide. At its bargain price, this book is a useful beginner's primer.' Who do You Think You Are?

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