HIS 122: The U.S. Since 1865, Dr. Don Fisher: Find Books

A basic, how-to book to assist genealogy researchers, this guide can also be used by those who wish to discover and document their family histories.

Over the centuries, generations of Americans have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, establish local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their Bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans' search for identity illuminates the story of America itself.

History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence.

This guide instructs the researcher in the timeless principles of genealogical research while identifying the most current classes of records and research tools. It is both a textbook and an all-purpose reference book, designed to help the present generation of family history researchers better understand and utilize all available resources.

This book explains how to avoid the traps many family historians can fall into. Whether it’s a proud family legend, a venerable publication, or the claims of an Internet family tree, the unsubstantiated genealogical source does not stand up.

This book will help you get the most out of your Ancestry.com subscription by showing you how to take advantage of what the world's biggest genealogy website has to offer--and how to find answers to your family tree questions within its billions of records and massive network of family trees.