Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social HistoryKatherine Scott Sturdevant shows you how to use social history -- the study of "ordinary people's everyday lives" -- to add depth, detail, and drama to your family's saga. Book jacket. |
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... date , name , or small piece of informa- tion . Obviously , the difference is partly whether one is writing about people and the details of their lives collectively or as individual subjects of intense interest . The genealogist must ...
... date , name , or small piece of informa- tion . Obviously , the difference is partly whether one is writing about people and the details of their lives collectively or as individual subjects of intense interest . The genealogist must ...
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... list the names and birthdates of people with your family name . They go back as far as 1800 , and the most recent date is 1925. Is this reliable genealogical information ? How could you tell ? No one person could have written entries ...
... list the names and birthdates of people with your family name . They go back as far as 1800 , and the most recent date is 1925. Is this reliable genealogical information ? How could you tell ? No one person could have written entries ...
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... Index One of the most convenient sources for looking up an event in your ... date and other particulars . Now you could go to the local , unindexed ... Name Index to the New York Times Index , 1951-1974 , with a 1974-1993 supplement ...
... Index One of the most convenient sources for looking up an event in your ... date and other particulars . Now you could go to the local , unindexed ... Name Index to the New York Times Index , 1951-1974 , with a 1974-1993 supplement ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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