Helmbold, F. Wilbur
Tracing your ancestry a step-by-step guide to researching your family history F. Wilbur Helmbold - Birmingham, Ala. Oxmoor House, Inc. 1976 - 210 p.
A family history can be fun --
Making your record --
Pictures, letters, and traditions tell the story, too --
Records of the people and where to find them --
Pitfalls oddities of family research --
The library as a research center and a trap --
Censuses: their importance and usage --
Abstracting requires background knowledge --
Wills and administrations --
Local land records --
Church and cemetery records --
Military records --
Public land records --
Additional research in the National Archives --
Societies and publications --
Analyze, interpret, and correlate your information --
Overseas ancestry --
Completing your family history --
Genealogical scholarship.
Explains procedures for searching birth and marriage certificates, wills, land records, maps, tax records, newspaper obituaries, church and cemetary records, old letters, and diaries
46091
0848704150
9780848704155
Genealogy --United States
929.1072073 Hel 15
Tracing your ancestry a step-by-step guide to researching your family history F. Wilbur Helmbold - Birmingham, Ala. Oxmoor House, Inc. 1976 - 210 p.
A family history can be fun --
Making your record --
Pictures, letters, and traditions tell the story, too --
Records of the people and where to find them --
Pitfalls oddities of family research --
The library as a research center and a trap --
Censuses: their importance and usage --
Abstracting requires background knowledge --
Wills and administrations --
Local land records --
Church and cemetery records --
Military records --
Public land records --
Additional research in the National Archives --
Societies and publications --
Analyze, interpret, and correlate your information --
Overseas ancestry --
Completing your family history --
Genealogical scholarship.
Explains procedures for searching birth and marriage certificates, wills, land records, maps, tax records, newspaper obituaries, church and cemetary records, old letters, and diaries
46091
0848704150
9780848704155
Genealogy --United States
929.1072073 Hel 15