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