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Climbing your family tree : online and offline genealogy for kids : the official Ellis Island handbook

In the ten years since the publication of Do People Grow on Family Trees? (121,000 copies in print), the Internet has completely transformed genealogy, making family history the second most popular hobby in the U.S. after gardening and genealogy the second most searched for subject on the Web. Now...

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Main Author: Wolfman, Ira.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Workman Pub., 2002.
Subjects and Genres:
Genealogy > Juvenile literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Cyndi Howells
  • Introduction / Alex Haley
  • Ancestor detectors at work
  • Getting started
  • Let's talk about...us!
  • What's your name?
  • How we got here
  • Becoming an American
  • Great record hunt
  • Catching your ancestors with a net
  • Where the records are
  • "My story's a little different"
  • Getting connected
  • Appendix
  • Dictionary of American last names
  • Correspondence log
  • Abstract of Citizenship papers
  • Freedom of information/privacy act request form G-639
  • Further reading
  • Index.

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