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.
Maps in genealogical research -- Finding information about places -- Determining boundaries and jurisdictions -- The secrets of map reading -- Topographic maps -- Land division and county maps and atlases -- Migration trails across America -- Military maps -- Fire insurance and other urban maps -- Using global positioning systems.
Getting started -- Interviewing -- Collecting information -- Preserving your finds -- Internet searches -- Creating family trees -- Decoding the past -- Genealogy on the move -- International directory.
