Ho-Hum Book
This slim volume from 2006 outlines the 7 main steps in doing genealogy.
1) Conduct family interviews
2) Contact other relatives
3) Get the death certificate
4) Follow up death records
5) Comb thru federal census records
6) Billions of names ? find one, and
7) Family History Library Catalog Search
Then the author cites important genealogy collections in each of the 50 states. I found a few that I wasn?t aware of before. He then explains what is available at each of the Regional and National Archives.
I found the ?lineage-linked sites? to be interesting. They are databases where genealogists have published their pedigrees for the world to see.
It was a surprise to find that ?Cyndi?s List? has been supplanted as the main go-to site by ?Lindpendium.? Lindpendium has reduced all inquiries to searching for 2 categories: find a surname or find a place. It also has 6 times the website entries as Cyndi?s List.
At the end, William Dollarhide offers a range of genealogy master forms ? ready to copy.
I have dozens of genealogy books and decided that I just wanted some of the information offered; thus I spent a couple of hours taking notes and returned the book to the library. I didn?t find this book to be a keeper.
