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Quillen's essentials of genealogy volume 1
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143 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"The revised fifth edition of Mastering Online Genealogy covers the use of computers and the Internet to successfully do your own genealogical research. Quillen shows readers how to use the Internet as an effective genealogical research tool ..."--Page 4 of cover.
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xxiv, 90 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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English
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"Accuracy is fundamental to genealogical research. Without it, a family's history would be fiction. This manual presents the standards family historians use to obtain valid results. These standards apply to all genealogical research, whether shared privately or published. They also apply to personal research and research for clients, courts, and other employers. The standards address documentation; research planning and execution, including reasoning...
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xii, 228 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 22 x 24 cm
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English
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Offers children advice on the best ways to research their geneology, both online and off, discussing how to find the best web sites, where they can download pedigree charts, family group sheets, checklists, and research logs, and how to decipher old-fashioned documents and handwriting.
5) Shaking the family tree: blue bloods, black sheep, and other obsessions of an accidental genealogist
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English
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"In Shaking the Family Tree, Jackson dives headfirst into her family gene pool: flying cross-country to locate an ancient family graveyard, embarking on a weeklong genealogy Caribbean cruise, and even submitting her DNA for testing to try to find her Jacksons. And in the process of researching her own family lore (Who was Bullwhip Jackson?) she meets legions of other genealogy buffs who are as interesting as they are driven?from the boy who saved...
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English
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In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful-and problematic-scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations. At a...
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247 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life"--
14) The ghost fields
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370 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
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English
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"The macabre discovery of a downed WWII plane with the pilot's skeleton still inside leads Ruth and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets in the seventh Ruth Galloway mystery" --
16) The ultimate encyclopedia of mythology: an A-Z guide to the myths and legends of the ancient world
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512 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), genealogical tables, color maps ; 22 cm
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English
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Children of the red king volume 5
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English
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When an ancient enchanter is released from the grounds of Bloor's Academy, threatening both of Charlie Bone's parents, the only way Charlie and his friends can defeat him is by finding the red king himself.
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374 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The discovery of a packet of old letters sends seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg to Nantucket to unravel a family mystery about her grandmother's past, but things get complicated when Abby meets the cute grandson of a prominent family who wants to stop her from investigating.
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