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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... Illinois . Author's collection . Reminder I am suggesting , therefore , something a bit radical . We should be citing photo- graphs that we use as sources in our family history narratives . If you learn some- thing useful from examining ...
... Illinois . Author's collection . Reminder I am suggesting , therefore , something a bit radical . We should be citing photo- graphs that we use as sources in our family history narratives . If you learn some- thing useful from examining ...
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... Illinois society gave me the name and address of the current owner of the farm on which one of the cemeteries still sits . His name was also B. I wrote to this owner of the cemetery land . He was a descendant of the men who held the ...
... Illinois society gave me the name and address of the current owner of the farm on which one of the cemeteries still sits . His name was also B. I wrote to this owner of the cemetery land . He was a descendant of the men who held the ...
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... Illinois , describing her life there . There was a typed reminiscence of early Goodland by my great - great - aunt Kate Leonard . Historian Everyman Parker judiciously kept the original of this last item as right- fully belonging to the ...
... Illinois , describing her life there . There was a typed reminiscence of early Goodland by my great - great - aunt Kate Leonard . Historian Everyman Parker judiciously kept the original of this last item as right- fully belonging to the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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