Collins Tracing Your Family History

by Anthony Adolph (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.28

  The new, fully-updated edition of Collins Tracing Your Family History is the definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their family's past. Firmly practical in its approach, yet entertaining in its style, this reference guide is the indispensable companion for all who are seeking a reliable, one-source volume to use while tracking down their family origins. New and up-to-date content helps you make the most of your resources - such as how best to utilise the internet, and informs you about the most recent records released which could be vital to your search for your ancestry. The book gives comprehensive guidance on the full variety of governmental, religious and more obscure records available to the family history sleuth. The guide also contains highly useful advice on how to expand and reinvigorate a search when the trial runs cold - as it inevitably will. Author Anthony Adolph balances detailed instruction and guidance with humorous anecdotes and illuminating history lessons, ensuring an informative and entertaining read.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.28

  For anyone with a fascination about where they have come from and an urge to begin sleuthing, Need to Know? Tracing Your Family History shows you where to start and how to progress on the journey through your own past. Both practical and entertaining, Need to Know? Tracing Your Family History is the essential beginner's guide to unravelling the mystery of your family's origins. With invaluable tips, advice and information from professional genealogist Anthony Adolph, navigating your way through the wealth of governmental, religious and more obscure records available will suddenly seem manageable. With particular emphasis on the Internet as an indispensable resource that can be your main starting point or help further your research, this book manages to simplify what can be a very intricate process, making it both highly enjoyable and ultimately rewarding and illuminating.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.28

  The definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their family's past. Firmly practical in its approach, yet entertaining in its style, this reference guide is the indispensable companion for all who are seeking a reliable, one-source volume to use while tracking down their family origins. The book gives comprehensive guidance on the full variety of governmental, religious and more obsure records available to the family history sleuth. The guide also contains highly useful advice on how to expand and reinvigorate a search when the trial runs cold - as it inevitably will. Tips on using the Internet as both a starting point and a supplement to more traditional searches are especially useful and timesaving. Author Anthony Adolph balances detailed instruction and guidance with humorous anedotes and illuminating history lessons, ensuring an informative and entertaining read.