Seeing ancestors in historical context -- Creating a timeline -- Why did they leave? -- How did they go? -- Coming to America -- Myths, confusions, secrets and lies -- Even harder to find missing persons -- Social history and community genealogy -- State by state -- And region by region.
Summary
History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence.
Getting started -- Interviewing -- Collecting information -- Preserving your finds -- Internet searches -- Creating family trees -- Decoding the past -- Genealogy on the move -- International directory.
