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Summary: One of my favorite Genealogy Books of all time
Comment: As a genealogy instructorHow to Do Everything with Your Genealogy is one of the best recommendations
I can make for new and intermediate genealogists. This book is easy to read, flows really well and
has personal examples by the author inserted throughout that shows how the author followed his own
advice and was successful in his searches... That is key to a good how to book in any genre....are
the steps explained in such a way that it is easy to duplicate with your own research. This book is
that.

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Summary: Wonderful Resource for Genealogy Beginners AND Experienced!
Comment: George Morgan has done it again! This book describes everything a genealogist needs to know about
what to actually do to get the information and then what to do with it when you think you have
enough information. Easy to read and very user friendly!

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Summary: comprehensive but tedious reference
Comment: This book is certainly comprehensive... it covers the expected range of genealogy topics, from vital
records to selecting technology tools and planning a genealogy research trip.

But, for
all the value that thorough and linear thinking has in the field of genealogy research, Morgan's
writing style is unnecessarily tedious. For example, when talking about pedigree charts, he
describes how you write your own name on line number one, then actually goes out of the way to
explain to us that "the next pair of lines is numbered 2 and 3" before describing to us what these
next lines are all about. And though he does devote some text to technology, this is discussed
mostly in separate chapters at the end and he fails to incorporate as a central theme the role
technology can play in alleviating the tedium of research.

In short, this book could
have been written in half as many pages without losing much on substance. It's definitely not the
kind of book you can read from cover-to-cover, even chapter-by-chapter. I found the Genealogy
Handbook by Ellen Galford to be a much better starting point. However, given the comprehensiveness
of this book and its decent index, this book still maintains some value as a reference.

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Summary: How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy
Comment: I am so pleased with this book!. It gives the genealogist concrete information on research,
organizing and presenting your work. Personal examples are very helpful. I wouls recommend this book
to any family historian.

Customer Rating:

Summary: A great book for new genealogists
Comment: This is a great "how to" book for beginning genealogists and a good reference book for anyone
searching for their ancestors.

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