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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Katherine Scott Sturdevant !! Step By Step SOMETIMES YOUR ANCESTOR IS NAMED IN THE BOOK ! But When Is It Realistic ... Steps You can strike gold in older published history sources . Many libraries will main- tain copies of older books ...
Katherine Scott Sturdevant !! Step By Step SOMETIMES YOUR ANCESTOR IS NAMED IN THE BOOK ! But When Is It Realistic ... Steps You can strike gold in older published history sources . Many libraries will main- tain copies of older books ...
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... STEP 1 : You find Grandma's cast - iron pan . STEP 2 : You turn to 300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles by Linda Campbell Franklin to identify , date , and value the pan . STEP 3 : You turn to a social history , Susan Strasser's Never Done ...
... STEP 1 : You find Grandma's cast - iron pan . STEP 2 : You turn to 300 Years of Kitchen Collectibles by Linda Campbell Franklin to identify , date , and value the pan . STEP 3 : You turn to a social history , Susan Strasser's Never Done ...
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... step in the story - try to make it a step through historical experience . Certainly , events in the family line - births , marriages , deaths are worthy of narration , but only when you have something generally historical to say about ...
... step in the story - try to make it a step through historical experience . Certainly , events in the family line - births , marriages , deaths are worthy of narration , but only when you have something generally historical to say about ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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