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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... usually see them in other profes- sional categories . Knowing these categories- " speaking the language " -may help you when addressing historians , librarians , archivists , and others . HOME SOURCES AS HISTORIANS AND HISTORICAL ...
... usually see them in other profes- sional categories . Knowing these categories- " speaking the language " -may help you when addressing historians , librarians , archivists , and others . HOME SOURCES AS HISTORIANS AND HISTORICAL ...
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... usually have passed along an oral tradi- tion about it and its meaning to the family . When you hear a story like this , record it ( including any variations ) so that it will remain with the artifact from then on . That the teapot ...
... usually have passed along an oral tradi- tion about it and its meaning to the family . When you hear a story like this , record it ( including any variations ) so that it will remain with the artifact from then on . That the teapot ...
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... usually look through collections of records on a whole group . The historian rarely cites an individual vital record or page of census microfilm . Many scholarly histories simply list in their bibliographies the entire census year ( s ) ...
... usually look through collections of records on a whole group . The historian rarely cites an individual vital record or page of census microfilm . Many scholarly histories simply list in their bibliographies the entire census year ( s ) ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Culture Citing and Caring | 56 |
A Historians Approach to Family | 85 |
Copyright | |
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