Kentucky Ancestry is the most extensive available guide for Kentucky genealogical and historical research! This genealogical gem outlines the holdings of the Kentucky State Archives and Kentucky's libraries, courthouses, universities, and historical organizations! Author Hogan's experience and knowledge will help you achieve efficient and successful research in Kentucky - a state that played an ...
If you are among the millions of people who are looking for someone from your past, you are about to embark on an exciting journey. Perhaps your search is one of the "big five" most common search categories—adoptee, birth parent, lost love, old friend, or military buddy. Or you may be searching for a past co-worker, former neighbor, childhood friend. This book contains the strategies and ...
This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry. Belief in a racially distinct and ethnically homogeneous nation is widely shared on both sides of the Korean peninsula, although some scholars believe it is a myth with little historical basis. Finding both positions problematic and treating ...
It can take hours to research family history and it is easy to become inundated with stuff - paper records, recordings, photographs, notes, artifacts, and more information than one would imagine could ever exist. The usefulness of the collection is in the organization - using computers, archival boxes, files, and forms to help you put your hands on what you need when you need it. Also included, ...
This beginner's guide to finding family history online takes readers through a simple, step-by-step process to help fill the gaps and holes in one's family network. Complete with a section of reviewed and recommended genealogy websites, this resource provides guidance on how to maximize the benefits of the Internet while avoiding less-than-reputable and unreliable sites. Peppered with amusing ...
The Genealogist's Computer Companion explains how to maximize research efforts by blending the use of online resources with realworld records, including: Accessing electronic databases; Preparing for library research at home; Using genealogy software to track your ancestors; Getting and verifying information on the World Wide Web; Preserving precious documents and photographs electronically; With ...
"Recording Oral History provides a comprehensive look at oral history methodology with references to a wide variety of practitioners. . . . Recording Oral History is as much concerned with theory as with practice and because it has value for anyone-humanist or social scientist-endeavoring to undertake an oral history interview or series of interviews." --Joel R. Gardner in ...
To preserve your family stories, all you need is a list of people to interview, a tape recorder and a copy of this book, which contains more than 400 questions on 30 different topics.