Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures
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List Price: $21.98 $21.54 $ 0.44 ( 2% ) CR Publications Christine Rose
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 929.1072073EAN: 9780929626161ISBN: 0929626168Label: CR PublicationsManufacturer: CR PublicationsNumber Of Items: 1Number Of Pages: 237Publication Date: 2004-04Publisher: CR PublicationsStudio: CR Publications
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Editorial Reviews: Tips galore from an author who has researched in more than 500 courthouses.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Everything you wanted to know about courthouse research.Comment: This wonderful book covers everything you need to know before you set foot in a courthouse. It continues by covering what is available in the courthouse, how to ask for what you need and how to plan your visit.Customer Rating: Summary: Incredible -- once I get over my fearsComment: I'm very new to genealogical research, and I know I'll eventually need to go to a courthouse to learn more about my family. This book is incredibly thorough in giving you information you'll be able to use. It's so thorough, in fact, that I feel a little scared about starting! When I do, though, I know I'll be well-prepared.Customer Rating: Summary: Courthouse Research for Family HistoriansComment: Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures Great research tool for both the beginner and more advanced family history researcher. The author writes in a very easy to understand language about what can be a very complicated and confusing process of navigating courhouses records. She also provided extremely helpful hints on how to prepare for your visit, how to locate the hard to find information, and how to deal with roadblocks.Customer Rating: Summary: Re: Courthouse ResearchComment: This is a great little book. It describes and illustrates may of the records to be found at your local courthouse. I would recommend this book to anyone who is planning a research/genealogy trip to their local courthouse.Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent how-to source, expecially for "relative novices" (heh, heh . . .)Comment: Rose is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists and a well-known speaker at national conferences. She's also an admitted courthouse junky. There are some 3,140 courthouses in the United States and she's poked around in more than 500 of them -- and she would be the first to tell you that every one is different, even in neighboring counties formed at the same time. (I've spent considerable time rummaging in courthouses myself, though not as many as Christine. . . .) Which county office has custody of which types of records varies from state to state, as do the names of the departments themselves. Big city courthouses are very different from small rural ones. Courthouses in poorer areas of a state do things differently, by necessity, than courthouses in comparatively wealthy counties. And that's not to mention the wide variation in personalities among county clerks and their minions, not only from place to place but even from year to year. (Every experienced researcher has run across courthouse workers who have no tolerance whatever for genealogists.) Rose approaches her topic methodically, from figuring out which county ought to have the records you're seeking (counties often have parents and offspring, too) and where to start when you arrive (with the indexes, the use of which may sometimes be arcane), to dealing with all sorts of records: Deeds, vital records, estates, civil and criminal court books, and all the rest. She goes on to discuss what's available on microfilm when your travel budget is tight, and the "strategies for success" that have worked for her. Courthouse research is a very difficult subject to generalize about, but this volume does an excellent job.
