How to Do Everything: Genealogy

Authors: George Morgan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Edition: 5
Publish Year: 2015
ISBN: 9780071845922

Thoroughly revised to cover new tools, techniques, and data, How to Do Everything: Genealogy, Fourth Edition uniquely addresses all the major genealogical record types and explains traditional and digital researchstrategies. Genealogy expert George G. Morgan shows you how to research your family history using the most current websites, mobile apps, social networking sites, record archives, census data, digital records, DNA research, and more. Discover your family’s past with help from the new edition of this bestselling guide.

Start an effective, well-organized genealogical research project
Work with traditional, electronic, and genetic research
Analyze and organize your family information
Locate and access genealogy records in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Canada, and Australia
Place your ancestors in geographical and historical context
Learn successful Internet search techniques
Locate vital, civil registration, census, and church records
Track down military, property, and immigration and naturalization records
Access libraries, archives, and other repositories online
Research and verify your ancestors using geneticgenealogy (DNA)
Get past brick walls and dead ends
Incorporate social networking into your research