Unpuzzling Your Past: The Best-Selling Basic Guide to Genealogy

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 929.1072073 EAN: 9781558705562 ISBN: 1558705562 Label: Betterway Books Manufacturer: Betterway Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 180 Publication Date: 2001-07-10 Publisher: Betterway Books Studio: Betterway Books
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Editorial Reviews: If you've ever thought of find your roots, Emily Anne Croom's is the genealogy guide to get you going. She's got sensible chapters on how to get started, the meaning of names, the difference between a family history of dates and a family history of stories, how to gather sources, who to interview, and how to fit it all together. Croom breaks the process into bite-sized pieces to turn it into a fun project that takes shape and grows with each new family scrap.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Genealogy Handbook or Manual Comment: Unpuzzling Your Past is a great reference book for both novice and veteran genealogists. I highly recommend it for all beginners as it's comprehensive and easy to understand. For those who've been researching for years it's a good book to refer to when the need arises. Customer Rating: Summary: Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy Comment: Some good tips, think perhaps better for a novice. Customer Rating: Summary: genealogy research Comment: this is a great book for people getting started with serious genealogy research. The new version (4th edition) gives useful tips for incorporating internet searching Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent teaching (and marketing) for the lazy student Comment: Excellent information that I've found very useful as I'm beginning to learn basic research methods. My only complaint is that these editions become outdated fairly quickly and constantly require you to buy a new edition. Which might be understandable except I'm having no problem learning from the edition published in 1983. Much of the information clearly would be unchanged, so there seems little reason (aside from cynical tarket marketing) in plunking down a new $20 every few years only to get some updated appendix information or addresses easily found on the internet. Oh, and save your $16 on the workbook, stop being lazy, fire up your word processor, and create your own worksheets (Croom even generously teaches you how -- except for that cynical tarket marketing part). I really don't hold Croom responsible for this anymore than I would hold my grandmother responsible for not understanding the depths to which the marketing people for corporate publishers will stoop to suck money from both readers and authors. I've talked to Emily Croom via Barnes and Noble University and she's an excellent teacher and an obviously kind and patient woman who is very knowledgeable about genealogy research methods. Trust me, I thought I was unteachable! But do your own legwork, find another way to donate money to Croom for being the genealogy elder that she is, and keep your wallet away from what is clearly a corporate marketing scam of constant updates. Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent Comment: This is by far the best book general methods book I have found. I highly recommend it to anyone beginning genealogical research and to those who are veterans, as well. I have given several to friends with a fledgling interest in genealogical research. It is indispensible for the beginner & I highly recommend it to everyone. Organized in a logical, easy to follow manner; not too technical; practical -- just plain good. More Reviews