Research Topics: Local History - Family Tree / Genealogy; Book #4

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Title
Author
# of Pages
Searching for Your Ancestors
Gilbert H. Doane
212

Contents

Jaunts and Jollities among Ancestors    (p. 1)
How to Search Among the Relatives    (p. 13)
What about Those Family Traditions?    (p. 26)
Out of the Family Papers    (p. 35)
Digging in Books and Libraries    (p. 48)
Blowing the Dust off the Town Records    (p. 62)
Inscriptions in Cemeteries    (p. 75)
Where There's a Will There's a Way    (p. 88)
What You Can Find in the Church Records    (p. 98)
Government Aid in the Search    (p. 106)
How to Be a D.A.R.    (p. 117)
How to Arrange a Genealogy    (p. 130)
Odds and Ends to Help Your Search    (p. 138)
Getting Ready to Cross the Atlantic    (p. 158)
L'Envoi    (p. 165)
Appendix A. Bibliographies    (p. 171)
Appendix B. State Whose Offices of Vital Statistics Have Records Dating before 1900    (p. 193)
Appendix C. Census Records    (p. 196)
Appendix D. A Bibliography of Lists, Registers, Rolls, and Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers    (p. 200)
Index    (p. 207)