Finding Your Roots: How to Trace Your Ancestors at Home and Abroad

ISBN-10: 087477943X
ISBN-13: 9780874779431
Series: Finding Your Roots
Category: Reference / Genealogy & Heraldry
Pages: 335
Language: English
Published: 1998
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
Author: Jeane Eddy Westin

Description

Now more than ever before, discovering your roots is as easy as doing some basic homework, speaking to relatives, and logging on to the Internet. In this completely updated and heavily expanded edition that includes web sites and addresses for organizations and archives that all Americans can use, readers will find: -- the most reliable databases and archives on the Internet; -- a wealth of resources for Native-American, Latin-American, Asian-American, African-American, and Jewish family historians; -- the best CD-ROMs and computer programs for assembling data; and-- how to follow their roots to Europe, Asia, and Africa.Finding Your Roots will guide readers along the path of discovery as they learn about their ancestors and create a living document of family history to pass on to future generations.

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