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Author Fifer, Susan.

Title Family history for the older and wiser : find your roots with online tools / Susan Fifer
Published Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 332 pages) : color illustrations
Series The Third Age Trust series
Third Age Trust series
Contents pt. 1. Getting started -- What you need to begin -- pt. 2. Basic genealogy -- The facts of life--birth, marriage, and death -- Counting the people--census records -- pt. 3. Online sources -- Family search -- Using the Ancestry website -- Using the National Archives -- Accessing information from wills, newspapers, directories, and other sources -- pt. 4. Recording your research -- Using spreadsheets -- Using family history software -- Working with family photos -- pt. 5. Sharing your research -- Creating presentations -- Publishing a family tree
Summary Discover your roots with Family History for the Older and Wiser. This extremely easy-to-follow bookwillguide you through all the different stages of researching your family history online and how to record your findings. Using a case study approach, the book takes a single source item - an 1890 marriage certificate purchased at an antiques event - and uses it to highlight the questions you should be asking yourself about your own family documentation and how this can be used as a basis for online research. Learn how to: Access and investigate online records; Use spreadsheets to record your
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Genealogy -- Computer network resources
Internet -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Middle-aged persons -- Computer network resources
REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
Genealogy -- Computer network resources
Internet
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Genealogy -- Computer network resources
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009049237
ISBN 9780470710517
0470710519
128268521X
9781282685215
0470970170
9780470970171
9786612685217
6612685212