Through the years poets and journalists have captured the character of the locomotive, some transforming it into an animate creature, others such as William Dean Howells and Thomas Wolf relating a symbolic odyssey by train. Here, in a pictorial history, Jim Shaughnessy turns an eloquent photographer's eye to the Delaware & Hudson, the line that began in 1823 as a canal system to transport ...

Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press
Written By: Jim Shaughnessy

Manufacturer: Maunsel & Co
Written By: Sean J. Murphy

FINDsomeone.com is the complete people-finder of the communications age. This timely reference offers proven and effective search techniques for finding anybody, anywhere. The professional techniques described in FINDsomeone.com were developed by the author over many years in military intelligence, international security, and as a professional investigator. Core strategies for conducting adoption, ...

Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann
Written By: R. Scott Grasser

Using the internet has become the easiest and quickest way to find source material and information for researching family history. However, the huge number of websites available can become overwhelming, and the net can prove to be a very frustrating place! This indispensable book is divided into sections and includes a list of sites which deal with the whole spectrum of genealogy. There is ...

Manufacturer: Countryside Books
Written By: Colin Waters

Genealogy is one of the hottest topics on the Internet, with thousands of sites, forums, and newsgroups clamoring to help--or confuse--family history sleuths. How do you cut through the noise and find the best tools to trace your roots? This opinionated guide can help. Zeroing in on the science of online genealogical research, author Pamela Rice Hahn shows you how to: * Map out a research ...

Manufacturer: Wiley
Written By: Pamela Rice Hahn

State censuses rank with federal censuses as a major genealogical resource, but, because they were taken randomly, remain a much under-utilized resource in American genealogy. State censuses not only stand as substitutes for some of the missing 1790, 1800, 1810, and 1890 censuses (as well as many county and statewide enumerations lost or destroyed between 1790 and 1890) but also as ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Ann S. Lainhart

Discover ancestors and trace New England history in court records from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Whether you are a novice researcher--or an experienced genealogist or historian--this book will help you to research court records with confidence. Learn how to read and use court records--with clear explanations of legal terms, illustrations from real cases and step-by-step research ...

Manufacturer: Quill Pen Press, LLC
Written By: Diane Rapaport

Manufacturer: Family Line Publications
Written By: Eleanor Mildred Vaughan Cook

Flags, as the distinguishing banners of nations, are the most immediate and recognizable of symbols but how many of us could spot the ensigns of the Bahamas or the Aland Islands or, say, the Falkland Islands? Did we even know the Falkland Islands had their own flag? This is the first book to organize flags primarily by their graphic element, allowing users to identify unfamiliar flags quickly ...

Manufacturer: Chatham Publishing
Written By: V.S. de Kleer

This is your complete guide to using Family Tree Maker 2006 to create a family history that you and your family will treasure for year to come. This book gets you started by helping you enter what you already know. Learn how to search the INternet for more ancestors. As the information starts rolling in, yoiu will learn how to organize and plan your ongoing family history by using the research ...

Manufacturer: Generations Network
Written By: Tana Pedersen Lord