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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... lived , consider general research into architectural history for that time and place . If the family lived in colonial Massachusetts or Delaware , in early French Louisiana , or in a Gothic Revival gingerbread house , you can find books ...
... lived , consider general research into architectural history for that time and place . If the family lived in colonial Massachusetts or Delaware , in early French Louisiana , or in a Gothic Revival gingerbread house , you can find books ...
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... lived in that region , or even generally in New England , at that time , this would be a small gold mine of social history for you . Investigate historical museums and sites in your own area or the areas where ancestors lived . Cities ...
... lived in that region , or even generally in New England , at that time , this would be a small gold mine of social history for you . Investigate historical museums and sites in your own area or the areas where ancestors lived . Cities ...
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... lived ? Folks who come to this idea from the direction of genealogical training in standards of proof become uncomfortable with the idea of connecting precise genealogical data with historical descriptions when they cannot prove the ...
... lived ? Folks who come to this idea from the direction of genealogical training in standards of proof become uncomfortable with the idea of connecting precise genealogical data with historical descriptions when they cannot prove the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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