Best-selling genealogy author Emily Croom presents a new and expanded version of her best-selling guide to genealogy. It provides readers with all the tools and information they need to jump into this great American hobby by focusing on fundamental strategies for success, questions to ask, places for research, and interesting examples of each step along the way. Throughout, readers will ...

Manufacturer: Betterway Books
Written By: Emily Croom

This pioneering work on Polish family history is designed to provide the American researcher with the kind of information he needs in order to succeed in his genealogical research. Written by a national director of the Polish Genealogical Society of America, it throws cold water on the myth that successful Polish genealogical research is beyond the powers of ordinary people. Mrs. Chorzempa ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Rosemary A. Chorzempa

From the former editor of the RootsWeb Review and the author of The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker 2006 comes the insider's tour of RootsWeb.com. In it, you will learn how to put your family tree online, locate valuable research resources, create successful message board posts, search effectively, connect with other users, and much more. The guide also features success stories from members of ...

Manufacturer: Ancestry.com
Written By: Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Tana Pederson Lord

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
Written By: Oriana Fallaci

Sure to become a treasured heirloom. With spaces to record family data, this unique volume includes such topics as marriages, statistics, deaths, generations and a family tree. Deluxe binding stamped in gold. 8 1/2" x 11".

Manufacturer: Book Sales
Written By: Julie Hausner

For three centuries--beginning with the accession of Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov in 1613--the Romanov Dynasty ruled Russia.  Its reign ended with the execution of Nicholas II and Alexandra in the early 20th century.  Noted Russian scholar W. Bruce Lincoln has brilliantly portrayed the achievement, significance and high drama of the Dynasty as no previous book has done.  His use of rare ...

Manufacturer: Anchor
Written By: W. Bruce Lincoln

This "exemplary social history" (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park's people--the merchants and landowners who launched the project; the immigrant and African-American residents who were displaced by the park; the politicians, gentlemen, and artists who disputed its design and ...

Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
Written By: Roy Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Blackmar

Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow, an extraordinary narrative woven from the lives of four generations of her own family, illuminates fascinating--and until now unexplored--strands of Vietnamese history. Beginning with her great-grandfather and continuing to the present, Mai Elliott traces her family's journey through a long era of tumultuous change. She tells of childhood hours in her ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: Duong Van Mai Elliott

Manufacturer: Villard
Written By: David Grafton

A powerful, beautifully illustrated remembrance of the terrible morning of September 11, 2001 and the amazing courage, strength and patriotism that followed from the award-winning editors and photographers of Life Magazine. This is about firemen going in amidst the rubble, but it is also about a Frenchman in Paris holding up a sign that says "We are all Americans". This is about leaders taking ...

Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Written By: Life Magazine, editors of LIFE magazine