"Including chapters on how to operate a homebased 'house histories' business."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-296) and index.
Contents
Chapters: Inspecting the house and site // The paper search/written records // The paper search /graphic records // The final analysis // Your own business // Appendices: Resources // where to write // Additional information
Summary
The book explains how to establish the history of a house by examining the building style and materials and searching for clues in old documents, and offers suggestions for running a home-based house histories business.
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.
edited by Jessie Carney Smith ; foreword by Alex Haley.
ISBN
0313225931 (lib. bdg.)
Place of Publication
Westport, Conn
Publisher
Greenwood Press,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
xxxix, 440 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographies and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Librarians and genealogical research / Russell E. Bidlack -- Basic sources for genealogical research / Jean Elder Cazort -- Library records and research / Casper L. Jordan -- Researching family history / Bobby L. Lovett -- The national archives and records service / James D. Walker -- The genealogical society of Utah library / Roger Scanland -- American indian records and research / Jimmy B. Parker -- Asian-American records and research / Greg Gubler -- Black American records and research / Lyman De Platt.
Chapters: ORGANIZING YOUR RESEARCH AND MATERIALS --- OBTAINING THE MATERIALS --- IDENTIFYING THE REGIMENT --- CHRONOLOGY AND ARMYSTRUCTURE --- HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES , LIBRARIES ANDOTHER ARCHIVES --- HISTORIC SITES , PARKS , AND BATTLEFIELDS --- NATIONAL ARCHIVES --- OTHER MAJOR COLLECTIONS --- INTERNET WEBSITES --- GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC --- BOOKS --- NEWSPAPERS --- DEALERS , RETAILERS , AND AUCTIONS --- REENACTMENTS AND SHOWS
Appendices include sources for rosters, a chronology of battles, a chart of the regimental organization, state archives, historical and genealogical organizations, other museums,libraries, and collections of interest.
Getting started -- Interviewing -- Collecting information -- Preserving your finds -- Internet searches -- Creating family trees -- Decoding the past -- Genealogy on the move -- International directory.
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.
