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 112
... relatives are comfortable with the idea or prone to shy away from even mentioning what they have . Relatives may suspect you of trying to take , keep , or wheedle them out of pictures they own and value . After all , you probably would ...
... relatives are comfortable with the idea or prone to shy away from even mentioning what they have . Relatives may suspect you of trying to take , keep , or wheedle them out of pictures they own and value . After all , you probably would ...
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... relatives can give you two different versions of the same story . Even the same relative may provide different versions at different times . Do not approach an interview hoping for definitive factual information , but rather for ...
... relatives can give you two different versions of the same story . Even the same relative may provide different versions at different times . Do not approach an interview hoping for definitive factual information , but rather for ...
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... relatives if they have any contacts with relatives in the mother country . For my immigrant ances- tors from Scotland and Wales circa 1850s - 1910s , there were remaining cousins in the homelands , even on remote islands , who could ...
... relatives if they have any contacts with relatives in the mother country . For my immigrant ances- tors from Scotland and Wales circa 1850s - 1910s , there were remaining cousins in the homelands , even on remote islands , who could ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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