A comprehensive resource designed to help readers track down their ancestors presents a variety of helpful tools and effective techniques for finding lost relatives, explaining how to use such resourcs as public archives and the World Wide Web and providing special guidelines for ethnic searches. Reprint.

The next best thing to a personal genealogist, this guide gives you all the knowledge to trace your heritage, and sort through the vast amount of information online, in family scrapbooks, in libraries, and at courthouses.

Explains how to research your family history, beginning with personal scrapbooks and photo albums, to exploring census data, court and church records, organizing genealogical information as you find it, and more.

Given in memory of Dr. Henry L. Alsmeyer by Dorian Martin.

"Fully updated and revised, this bestselling genealogy guide helps you tap into the wealth of global ancestry records and offers proven strategies for both traditional and electronic research. How to Do Everything: Genealogy, Second Edition explores basic rules of genealogical evidence, evaluation of source materials, research methods, and successful techniques for web-based research. You'll get new information on DNA-based records, social networking...