Helpful Score: 2
This 64 page booklet has sparse information in the beginning about starting your online search. In the back there are a couple commonly used forms that appear in just about all of the genealogy books on the market. The majority of the book is a list of websites, many sorted by state. It might be a good book to have on your shelf to refer to from time to time when you are looking for a particular state website. Otherwise, this might be better ordered from your library through interlibrary loan. This is not a very useful tool.
This slim volume from 2006 outlines the 7 main steps in doing genealogy.
1) Conduct family interviews
2) Contact other relatives
3) Get the death certificate
4) Follow up death records
5) Comb thru federal census records
6) Billions of names find one, and
7) Family History Library Catalog Search
Then the author cites important genealogy collections in each of the 50 states. I found a few that I wasnt aware of before. He then explains what is available at each of the Regional and National Archives.
I found the lineage-linked sites to be interesting. They are databases where genealogists have published their pedigrees for the world to see.
It was a surprise to find that Cyndis List has been supplanted as the main go-to site by Lindpendium. Lindpendium has reduced all inquiries to searching for 2 categories: find a surname or find a place. It also has 6 times the website entries as Cyndis List.
At the end, William Dollarhide offers a range of genealogy master forms ready to copy.
I have dozens of genealogy books and decided that I just wanted some of the information offered; thus I spent a couple of hours taking notes and returned the book to the library. I didnt find this book to be a keeper.
1) Conduct family interviews
2) Contact other relatives
3) Get the death certificate
4) Follow up death records
5) Comb thru federal census records
6) Billions of names find one, and
7) Family History Library Catalog Search
Then the author cites important genealogy collections in each of the 50 states. I found a few that I wasnt aware of before. He then explains what is available at each of the Regional and National Archives.
I found the lineage-linked sites to be interesting. They are databases where genealogists have published their pedigrees for the world to see.
It was a surprise to find that Cyndis List has been supplanted as the main go-to site by Lindpendium. Lindpendium has reduced all inquiries to searching for 2 categories: find a surname or find a place. It also has 6 times the website entries as Cyndis List.
At the end, William Dollarhide offers a range of genealogy master forms ready to copy.
I have dozens of genealogy books and decided that I just wanted some of the information offered; thus I spent a couple of hours taking notes and returned the book to the library. I didnt find this book to be a keeper.
