Who Do You Think You Are? Digging for Your Family Roots

by Suzanne Hilton

Hardcover, 1976

Status

Available

Call number

929 Hil

Call number

929 Hil

Barcode

4361

Collection

Publication

Westminster John Knox Press (1976), Edition: 1st, 189 pages

Description

Step-by-step instructions on how to trace one's ancestors and construct a family tree.

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LibraryThing member ham_shoes
Although this quick and fun book is targeted for juveniles and young adults, I, approaching my forties, found it engaging as well. Peppered with interesting anecdotes of family history discoveries, it does a great job spurring the reader's imagination, cheering them on to uncover the mystery of the
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social and political trends that combined to result in their very own present and personal state of being.

Experienced genealogists will notice an absence of lists, charts and research logs, but Hilton still adequately makes a case to the young reader for the need to keep one's "meta-information" organized. I hope to find more adult literature on this topic that reads as effortlessly as this one did.
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Rating

½ (1 rating; 3.5)

Pages

189
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