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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Page 182
... newspaper and is indexed . The index has been published annually since 1913 , with entries beginning as far back as the newspaper's publication : 1851 . Many public and college libraries keep it and the newspaper itself on microfilm so ...
... newspaper and is indexed . The index has been published annually since 1913 , with entries beginning as far back as the newspaper's publication : 1851 . Many public and college libraries keep it and the newspaper itself on microfilm so ...
Page 190
... newspapers in ordinary family history for un- controversial notices of local people's activities , the historian would comfortably consider the newspaper a primary source . Some genealogists , on the other hand , would call all newspapers ...
... newspapers in ordinary family history for un- controversial notices of local people's activities , the historian would comfortably consider the newspaper a primary source . Some genealogists , on the other hand , would call all newspapers ...
Page 200
... newspaper from a different , more holistic perspective . Accidental inaccuracies matter less and bias is helpfully revealing . All parts of the newspaper become precious when studying the community . Analyze the small - town newspaper ...
... newspaper from a different , more holistic perspective . Accidental inaccuracies matter less and bias is helpfully revealing . All parts of the newspaper become precious when studying the community . Analyze the small - town newspaper ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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