Every home has a story to tell, but curious homeowners often don't know where and how to begin to reveal it. This practical manual demonstrates how to obtain information and organize it into a lively narrative history. Previous owners, architects, community newspapers, and local and state agencies are some of the valuable sources discussed. With these tools homeowners can inexpensively and easily ...

Manufacturer: Santa Monica Press
Written By: Betsy J. Green

In the wake of highly-publicized scientific breakthroughs in using genetics to establish family connections, genealogists began to see potential for their own research. Now many are finding that organizing tests is a relatively straightforward matter - and that comparing the DNA signatures of individuals can reveal startling information on families, surnames and origins.

Manufacturer: Dundurn Press
Written By: Chris Pomery

Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Written By: Andrea Gabor

The transcribed letters of Charles McDowell and his wife, Nancy, display remarkable devotion, and offer readers a unique perspective of the Civil War. Read little known details about: hangings; prostitution; amputations; desertions; theft and murder among Union troops; personal contacts with Lincoln and Seward (of "Seward's Alaskan Folly"); battles of Cold Harbor, Jerusalem Plank Road, Monocacy, ...

Manufacturer: Heritage Books Inc.
Written By: Charles McDowell, Lisa Saunders, Nancy Wager Mcdowell

When John Lewis "slew the Irish lord" and fled to America in 1729, he established a prominent family which has maintained its identity for more than two and a half centuries. His sons Thomas, Gen. Andrew, William and Col. Charles, raised in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley near Staunton, had important roles in American Revolutionary times. This book records more than 9,200 descendants, with some ...

Manufacturer: Maverick Pub Co
Written By: Mark W. Cowell Jr.

Manufacturer: A.R. Pike [distributor]
Written By: Allen Raymond Pike

The Chicago Roots of Your Family Tree For almost 175 years, a great metropolis on the shores of a freshwater sea has sent a siren call to immigrants internal and external, giving most Americans some kind of link to the City of Big Shoulders. Whether your people came west from New England in the early days of settlement, or north from Mississippi in the Great Migration; whether they ...

Manufacturer: Lake Claremont Press
Written By: Grace Dumelle

Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Written By: Whitney Smith

. . . (For All Time) adds an exciting new dimension to writing modern family history that seeks to place our ancestors in a larger framework of family, neighborhood, and history. - Library JournalFamily history writing can take many forms--a short essay or narrative introduction to a collection of family letters, long captions comprising a family photo history, ...

Manufacturer: Boynton/Cook
Written By: Charley Kempthorne

Throughout his life, Jasper Nall was transfixed by the stories his mother and grandmother told—stories of the family’s origins and plantation life in Alabama and the Carolinas. These he recorded with his own recollections in this series of dictated memoirs transcribed by his daughter Maude in 1936.

Manufacturer: Crane Hill Publishers
Written By: Jasper Rastus Nall