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Introduction to Genealogy

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Designed for the beginner, this textbook teaches you good search habits and techniques and introduces you to the principles of research. 

You will learn how to properly use the various tools that are used everyday in research - family charts, research logs, family books and documentary evidence. 

You will learn how to access records, how to analyze them, how you can use a record to the best advantage of your research and about the historical factors that can account for many a derailment in a family search.  

You will learn how to breakdown brickwalls in your research and how to use backdoor techniques to get to seemingly impossible to prove information.  You will also learn about the proper place of the internet in your search.  This book is loaded with examples of practical research steps, quick reference charts, tables, addresses and more.

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$29.95 each

The I.G.I. DeMystified

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If you have used, or hope to use, the International Genealogical Index on www.familysearch.org or at a Family History Centre then you need to read this booklet. 

This booklet explains, in detail, the ins and outs of the International Genealogy Index:

  what information is contained on the I.G.I. and what original source information has been eliminated,

  the 12 major pitfalls of the I.G.I.,

  how to interpret the batch numbers and source references,

  how to use the I.G.I. to best advantage in your research,

  the significance of the difference between member and extracted information,

  how to get more information from Salt Lake City,

  how Phillimore's relates to the I.G.I.,

  points to consider while searching for East European ancestors,

   how the I.G.I. relates to Ancestral File; and,

  the evolution of the I.G.I. from its earliest creation.

Special features include a batch number quick reference table and a table of the changes from the Julian to Gregorian calendars, and chapters concerning the Parish and Vital Records Index, negotiating around the familysearch website and how the I.G.I. compares to the new Vital Records Index.

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$10.95 each

English Records:  A Guide

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This reference digest to 347 English records spanning 800 years assures that you will never be stalled for very long by your research roadblocks. Every record has been individually summarized to point up its' potential value to your genealogical or historical research. Indexing status of the record group is noted as are the primary avenues of access to the records. You will be surprised just how many records are available through 3 or more avenues. Each summary also includes any restrictions to access that may be encountered as well as the format the record will be found in, e.g. microform, printed, Internet.

$12.95 each

Compendium of Ontario Records

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This reference digest to more than 320 Ontario records spans 225 years and takes you back to the time before the creation of the Province of Ontario.  This guide assures that you will never be stalled for very long by your research roadblocks.  Every record has been individually summarized to point up its' potential value to your genealogical or historical research.  Indexing status of the record group is noted as are the primary avenues of access to the records.  You will be surprised just how many records are available through more than one avenue.  Each summary also includes any restrictions to access that may be encountered as well as the format the record will be found in, e.g. microform, printed, Internet.

$10.50 each

Quick Research Guide:  England & Wales

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Written from the viewpoint of the anxious beginner, this booklet will guide you through your first steps on this fascinating journey of discovery.  It was the first in a series of booklets that was written to provide the beginning family historian with some fundamental starting points for their research.  The information in this booklet is not intended to be exhaustive.  It is intended only to get you started on the right path towards discovering your family's history and allow you the opportunity to learn, at your own pace, about some of the many and varied resources available for English and Welch genealogical research.

$3.95 each

Quick Research Guide:  Ontario

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Written from the viewpoint of the anxious beginner, this booklet will guide you through your first steps on this fascinating journey of discovery.  It was the second in a series of booklets that was written to provide the beginning family historian with some fundamental starting points for their research.  The information in this booklet is not intended to be exhaustive.  It is intended only to get you started on the right path towards discovering your family's history and allow you the opportunity to learn, at your own pace, about some of the many and varied resources available for genealogical research of Ontario-based ancestors.

$3.95 each

Quick Research Guide:  Ireland

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Written from the viewpoint of the anxious beginner, this booklet will guide you through your first steps on this fascinating journey of discovery.  It was the third in a series of booklets that was written to provide the beginning family historian with some fundamental starting points for their research.  The information in this booklet is not intended to be exhaustive.  It is intended only to get you started on the right path towards discovering your family's history and allow you the opportunity to learn, at your own pace, about some of the many and varied resources available for Irish genealogical research.

$3.95 each

Quick Research Guide:  Scotland

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Written from the viewpoint of the anxious beginner, this booklet will guide you through your first steps on this fascinating journey of discovery.  It was the fourth in a series of booklets that was written to provide the beginning family historian with some fundamental starting points for their research.  The information in this booklet is not intended to be exhaustive.  It is intended only to get you started on the right path towards discovering your family's history and allow you the opportunity to learn, at your own pace, about some of the many and varied resources available for Scots' genealogical research.

$5.50 each

Evaluate your Evidence!

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The Research Process series is a continuum of booklets that has been designed to enlighten and teach about the techniques and tools used in genealogical research.  Delivered in bite-sized topic-focused segments, The Research Process series will instill good research habits and cultivate valuable research skills in any novice or amateur family historian.

Inside Evaluate your Evidence! you will learn the methods and criteria used to determine the reliability of any document.  You will also learn how to properly record the path that your research has travelled.  Specifically dealt with are:

• Proof - primary, secondary, and tertiary
• Proof by preponderance
• the role of a census
• how to record and prepare source citations

$5.75 each

The Family Interview

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The Research Process series is a continuum of booklets that has been designed to enlighten and teach about the techniques and tools used in genealogical research.  Delivered in bite-sized topic-focused segments, The Research Process series will instill good research habits and cultivate valuable research skills in any novice or amateur family historian.

Inside The Family Interview you will find advice on how to prepare for the interview conduct preliminary background research things to think about before arranging your interview conducting the interview items to take with you - a checklist has been included also included is an extensive sample interview questionnaire

$2.75 each

Glossary

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The Research Process series is a continuum of booklets that has been designed to enlighten and teach about the techniques and tools used in genealogical research.  Delivered in bite-sized topic-focused segments, The Research Process series will instill good research habits and cultivate valuable research skills in any novice or amateur family historian.

Inside this Glossary you will learn about 201 terms that are encountered during family history research - many things from the interpretation of the cryptic dates 7br, 8br, 9br, 10br to yeoman.

$5.75 each

Navigating familysearch.org

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The Research Process series is a continuum of booklets that has been designed to enlighten and teach about the techniques and tools used in genealogical research.  Delivered in bite-sized topic-focused segments, The Research Process series will instill good research habits and cultivate valuable research skills in any novice or amateur family historian.

Inside Navigating familysearch.org you will find answers to many of your questions concerning what's available on familysearch.org as well as:

• how to access the data correctly
• understanding what the data means to you
• what you may have been missing on the site

$6.00 each

Organize thy Records!

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The Research Process series is a continuum of booklets that has been designed to enlighten and teach about the techniques and tools used in genealogical research.  Delivered in bite-sized topic-focused segments, The Research Process series will instill good research habits and cultivate valuable research skills in any novice or amateur family historian.

Inside Organize thy Records! you will learn about the use of each of the housekeeping tools of genealogy.  You will also learn how to properly prepare and maintain those tools throughout your research so that your records and research will always retain its future value.  Specifically addressed are:

• Ancestral Lineage Charts
• Descendancy Charts
• Family Group records
• Research Logs
• Family books
• Family or Surname files

$5.25 each