Learn new skills and concepts to unlock family secrets long hidden or obscured by the fog of history, incomplete records, and old heirlooms.

The Internet has made millions of records available to search anytime, anywhere. Start finding your ancestors with just a few strokes of a keyboard.

The next best thing to a personal genealogist, this guide gives you all the knowledge to trace your heritage, and sort through the vast amount of information online, in family scrapbooks, in libraries, and at courthouses.

A step-by-step guide to investigating your family tree and discovering your family history.

"Births, marriages, deaths." A "collection of vital records application forms for each of the fifty states as well as for U.S. trust territories, the provinces and territories of Canada, and the United Kingdom and Ireland." Includes names and addresses of vital records offices as well as information on how to apply for copies of records.

"This handbook presents a step-by-step process for solving genealogical problems -- a methodology thirty years in the making. Developed by Anderson and perfected through his work on the Great Migration Study Project, this systematic approach considers each source, each record, and each possible linkage before making a genealogical conclusion...Examples of actual research problems and continuing case studies, accompanied by easy-to-follow diagrams,...