Finding Your Family Tree - A Beginner’s Guide to Researching Your Genealogy

Finding Your Family Tree is the perfect guide for beginners of all backgrounds entering the world of genealogy, providing techniques for finding and understanding your family history.

List of contents

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Build Your Family Tree
Chapter 2: My Family Story
Chapter 3: Oral History
Chapter 4: Census Records
Chapter 5: Vital Records
Chapter 6: Military Records
Chapter 7: Court Records
Chapter 8: Special People
Chapter 9: DNA Testing
Chapter 10: So Much More
Research Checklist
Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author

About the author

Sharon Leslie Morgan is a writer and genealogist as well as an expert in multicultural marketing. She is the founder of Our Black Ancestry, a website and Facebook group devoted to African American genealogy, that has more than 35,000 members. She writes and speaks extensively. In 2021, she was a keynote speaker for the annual RootsTech conference. Sponsored by FamilySearch, it is the largest family history convocation in the world. It was attended (virtually) by over 1 million participants from 242 countries. 
She is the co-author, with Thomas Norman DeWolf, of GATHER AT THE TABLE: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade (Beacon Press, 2012). It won the Phillis Wheatley Award for best nonfiction/memoir at the Harlem Book Fair.

Summary

Finding Your Family Tree is the perfect guide for beginners of all backgrounds entering the world of genealogy, providing techniques for finding and understanding your family history.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Leslie Morgan
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2023
• EAN: 9781577153429
• ISBN: 978-1-57715-342-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Weight: 635 g
• Illustrations: 100+ color photos
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, Family history, tracing ancestors, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Family History & Genealogy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General