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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... identifying patterns . For example , say a replacement ser- vice helps you identify one group of six silver spoons in your great - grandmother's silver as a pattern called Lancaster , circa 1898. You know she was married in 1904. These ...
... identifying patterns . For example , say a replacement ser- vice helps you identify one group of six silver spoons in your great - grandmother's silver as a pattern called Lancaster , circa 1898. You know she was married in 1904. These ...
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... identify many relevant artifacts , an- swer questions , and offer you more to write in a family history narrative than you ever expected . BOOKS THAT TELL SOCIAL HISTORY THROUGH ARTIFACTS Everyday Life in America by Time Period There ...
... identify many relevant artifacts , an- swer questions , and offer you more to write in a family history narrative than you ever expected . BOOKS THAT TELL SOCIAL HISTORY THROUGH ARTIFACTS Everyday Life in America by Time Period There ...
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... identify artifacts and to determine whether a certain invention was available at a particular time . When I use them in reference to my family , I can even speculate that my ancestors bought the item I am researching from the same ...
... identify artifacts and to determine whether a certain invention was available at a particular time . When I use them in reference to my family , I can even speculate that my ancestors bought the item I am researching from the same ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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