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Summary: One "Source" for all
Comment: The Source (3rd Ed.), a reference book for individuals as well as research collections, provides
huge amounts of materials for amateur as well as professional genealogists. In fact, in and of
itself, it gives a history of the people who were and are "America."

And, when one is
not using it, The Source makes a great bookend!

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Summary: The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy
Comment: This is a great book for anyone reseaching their family no matter what your level of experience is.

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Summary: complete
Comment: Tons of info, easy to use, very useful. I'm not saying it's the best out there (I haven't seen them
all), but this has an awful lot of useful info. Nicely organized, easy to use, good stuff.

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Summary: Good place to start
Comment: This is truly a GUIDEBOOK. It will guide you through your genealogical experience. When you get
frustrated, "hit a brick wall," this is a good place to go for ideas. This will tell you where and
how to look up all sorts of neat stuff. Essential stuff like what are the goodies of each census,
who, where and what you can find info on all the soldiers from the wars. It DOESN'T have addresses
to all the places you should be writing to---it is not that detailed. This just guides you. There
are other books out there that can help you with courthouse recorder, deeds, phone #'s etc. Its got
completely useless chapters TO ME on urban ancestry, all minorities ancestry is covered, phone
directories, yearbooks, etc. How monstrous ship records and immigration records can be! This is just
a book to help you with the basics. Its a good thing to have around; if you have an exceptional
memory and can remember where you can find everything and what you can get from all those sources,
you probably will never need this book. But its a good thing to have around.

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Summary: The best book about American Genealogy Period!
Comment: I went through a lot of genealogy books looking for the right one to help me along on my search for
my ancestors.When I hit the book THE SOURCE A GUIDEBOOK OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY, I hit paydirt. It is
my bible to my geneological research. It covers every conceiveable catagory and helps the beginner
as well as the pro on where to search out answers, where to get information on vital records,
tracking through lineage organizations and individual chapters on select ethnic groups.One of the
best chapters is on Tracking Urban Ancestors for those of us who are tracking relations who lived
in big cities. This book should be on every family historians home library shelf

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