Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can't Buy encourages everyone, especially senior citizens to preserve their family's history. It is also the perfect starting point for anyone wishing to research his or her family's history.
Using a combination of basic instruction and personal examples it covers:
- FAMILY FACTS: Filling out the basic forms with what you know (blank forms included at the end of the book)
- HOME SOURCES: Saving the important documents
- PHOTOGRAPHS: Identifying the people in family photographs
- PRESERVATION: Basic techniques and products
- FAMILY STORIES: Encourages telling those stories that make your family "Your Family"
- FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH: Explaining the basics of Vital Records, Wills & Probate Records, Cemetery Records, Newspaper articles & obituaries, along with US Census Records and an overview of other records.
This revised 64 page edition has an expanded Research Section that includes three new articles:
- Didn't Find it in the Index? - Helpful hints for searching both online websites and reference materials
- Genealogy Travel - More than just records with examples of "Walking in my ancestor's footsteps"
- Case Study: “Finding Alvar - A not so Great Dane” - the 22 year search for my grandfather.
Published by Family Roots Publishing in a joint venture with Alenjes Publishing.
Here's how to buy Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can't Buy.
Retail Price: $8.95
ISBN 978-1-933194-88-X
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012954733