Kategoria BISAC: Reference >> Genealogy & Heraldry

If you're interested in personal or oral history, DNA-driven genealogy, family history, ancestry, life stories, time capsules and tracing your own personal Adam and Eve, here's how to start researching your own family history at the cellular level when written records stop and oral history contributes to the evidence.

What you're looking for in the search for your own origins and migrations is...

Your purpose can be the following: closure and harmony, remembering good old times, making keepsake memorabilia. Writing and recording the...

Before you select a company to test your DNA, find out how many genetic markers will be tested. For the maternal line, 400 base pairs of sequences are the minimum. For the...

So regardless of the language spoken by your ancestors--Slavic, Arabic, Greek, Judezmo, Uralic, Yiddish, Romanian, or Turkish, the Ottoman Empire controlled and kept careful census records in Turkish using Arabic script in the following countries of Europe and the Middle East known today, but not necessarily before 1924 as the following names: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bosnia,...

The nations listed in this guide (all faiths) include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Armenia, Assyria, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, and many other lands in the Middle East, the Balkans--Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Eastern Europe--Hungary, and more.

Collecting details about people is moving toward smart card...

Record voices on video and audio. Put the clips into a time capsule which may contain many annual video and print family newsletters. Keep them and save them to your computer and to discs.

Learn relevant questions to ask and how to interview people for the significant moments in their life stories. Then write, publish, and bind by hand exquisitely-crafted personal...

Here are 102+ ways to use training in family history and genealogy when applied to real-world careers in education, business, or government, including creative entrepreneurial start-ups.

With the future marriage of genealogy to smart cards, online databases, or similar authentication technology for family history, population registration (census), and library research, it may be easier to research family lines, not only by DNA matches through DNA testing for deep ancestry, but also with smart, electronic cards designed for electronic identity. It's also a way to track military records...

The author has studied McIlroy genealogy for over forty years and through a large amount of research, correspondence, and travel presents a thorough account of the family's history. The book includes unique features: family portraits, a copy of James McLroy's will, an attempt to prove the parents of...

Finally, here is the fun, easy-to-use guide that African Americans have been waiting for since Alex Haley published Roots more than twenty-five years ago. Written by the leading African American professional genealogist in the United States who teaches and lectures widely, Black Roots highlights some of the special problems, solutions, and sources unique to African Americans. Based on solid genealogical principles and designed for those who have little...

A detailed guide to the sources available for those who want to trace their family trees, with useful advice on how to conduct your research and record the results.
Fully revised, This is a practical and comprehensive guide to the sources and methods available for those who want to trace their family trees - both the searching out of the facts and the means of displaying them for the generations to come. Chapters include guidance on how to make use of national records, parish registers, wills, vestry books, churchwardens' accounts, the records of the professions and of the services,...