Forensic Genealogy

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 929 EAN: 9780976716006 ISBN: 0976716003 Label: Rice Book Press Manufacturer: Rice Book Press Number Of Pages: 220 Publication Date: 2005-06-30 Publisher: Rice Book Press Studio: Rice Book Press
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Editorial Reviews: Have you ever considered looking at the edges of an old photograph to find out who is in the picture? Have you ever considered epidemics as a source of genealogical information? How can you use DNA to connect your family with historical events long in the past? These are only a few of the surprising connections Forensic Genealogy offers for investigating the where, who, when, and why of your family history. As featured on NPRs Talk of the Nation radio program (July 2005), Internet Genealogy (June 2006 Online Bonus Edition), Family Tree Magazine (April 2006), and Family Chronicle (October 2005), Forensic Genealogy offers innovative new tools for getting the most information out of your reference materials. Forensic Genealogy also suggests many unusual places to look for family history. Examples of the innovative research techniques offered by this book can be found on the website www.forensicgenealogy.info, where the author hosts weekly photo quizzes. After reading this book, you will never look at your research materials the same way again! Forensic Genealogy comes with the Forensic Genealogy CD ROM and a mail-in coupon from Family Tree DNA for a $10 discount on any testing service. Forensic Genealogy was published in March 2005. The book offered here is brand new, approximately 8" x 9", weighes about 1.5 lbs. Autographed upon request. CA residents please add $2.05 tax.* - Now I have had a chance to read through this book. I only wish that I had done so earlier.....All in all, "Forensic Genealogy" provides a fresh view of the many methods and objects that genealogists have used for decades. This one is a "keeper." I enjoyed reading "Forensic Genealogy" and suspect that you will also. You can learn more about this book and some of the techniques discussed at http://www.forensicgenealogy.info. ** Dick Eastman, Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, June 17, 2005 http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/06/forensic_geneal.html
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Genealogy Meets CSI Comment: Genealogy is more than grandma researching the family tree. It's also more than names and dates. Colleen Fitzpatrick, who I personally know and have worked with on projects, takes a different approach to genealogy and puts it in book form to share with others. It becomes a mix of detective work and genealogy when you can use investigative skills to find your relatives. Customer Rating: Summary: Forensic Genealogy: A Recomended Resource Comment: This is not your usual basic family history book. It effectively teaches one how to think and analyze way outside the box. Once you have gathered all your family's pertinent material, this book will take you way beyond birth, death, and marriage records. The author brilliantly demonstrates how to use city directories, weather data, photo intelligence mensuration techniques, sleuthing approaches, and even a chapter on DNA testing and tracking. This is a wonderful teaching vehicle and reference manual. We would recommend it to all serious genealogists. The author takes a highly technical subject area and transforms it into understandable tools for one to use with excellent examples from her own family investigations. This book is a mind expanding read, and we rated it a high four hearts. Customer Rating: Summary: Must Have for dating Pics Comment: This book is fantastic for dating photographs. I have bins of photos that I have no clue when they were taken. The tables in here help you to pen point the dates using things you'd never think of. Once Miss Fitzpatrick was able to use a cash registar and some old ads to determine the date of a picture! The more meaty sections are when she uses the light of day to name the exact location. Now that was amazing! Last year I had the oppurturnity to meet Colleen. She is the nicest woman and ever so intelligent! Her passion flows throughout her work and makes the book enjoyable and fascinating to read. A genius in her field, Miss Fitzpatrick gives you the tools, the websites, and the frame of mind all in this book. Inside are charts and tables giving you dating for when each type of photograph was made, describing to a tee how to distinguish your photo. Also included, though I've not had much time to examine that section, are chapters on reading between the lines in directories and census images, ect. Without this book I would still be clueless. It truly is a must have. Customer Rating: Summary: A thoroughly "reader friendly" introduction Comment: Forensic Genealogy is a unique contribution to genealogical studies that will enable the novice genealogist (and even the experience genealogical researcher) to utilize diverse resources and methods for developing their genealogical family histories that combines established and conventional genealogical research techniques with cutting edge advances in forensic investigation techniques to identify, understand, correlate, and detail their ancestry. Enhanced throughout will illustrations, this 182 page instructional reference shows how to create a "database" to construct a family story (including cultural profiling). An avid genealogist, Colleen Fitzpatrick offers a thoroughly "reader friendly" introduction to the subject of identification and analysis using everything from surname studies to non-paternity events, to cladograms and pairwise mismatches. Readers will learn how to become a kind of "digital detective" in analyzing documents, photographs, and records of all kinds. Concluding with a chapter on "There Will Always Be Mysteries Left", Forensic Genealogy is a welcome and seminal addition to personal and professional genealogical reference library collections. Also very highly recommended is Colleen Fitzpatrick's related instructional reference DNA & Genealogy (0976716011) with its focus on the genetic trail an ancestor leaves behind which can be traced through Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA testing, offering heretofore unavailable genetics-based expertise to genealogical inquiry for non-specialist general readers with an interest in developing their own genealogical inquiries. Customer Rating: Summary: Move over CSI Comment: Don't put away those old photographs and documents. You are not through with your families history until you have read Dr. Fitzpatrick's book "Forensic Genealology". There may be many hidden secrets in all those old items. This book will teach you to look at them like a "crime scene" and discover their meaning for your ancestor. More Reviews