Database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. The 4,000+ maps include political, physical, outline, population, precipitation, climate, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
Brought to you by the wildly popular genealogy website, Ancestry.com, Ancestry Library Edition offers 4,000 genealogical databases covering the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.
Provides access to all of the Federal Census Images. Nine years are indexed by the head of the household, and you may access over 25,000 full-text, family and local-history books.
The world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.
View Colorado's historic fire insurance maps from the early 1900's, including two maps from Routt County. The maps provide information about property names and building function, building outline, size and shape, construction materials, street and sidewalk widths, house numbers, and much more.
pt. 1. Getting started -- What you need to begin -- pt. 2. Basic genealogy -- The facts of life--birth, marriage, and death -- Counting the people--census records -- pt. 3. Online sources -- Family search -- Using the Ancestry website -- Using the National Archives -- Accessing information from wills, newspapers, directories, and other sources -- pt. 4. Recording your research -- Using spreadsheets -- Using family history software -- Working with family photos -- pt. 5. Sharing your research -- Creating presentations -- Publishing a family tree -- Appendix A: Useful websites -- Appendix B: Useful books -- Appendix C: Glossary. Includes index.
Getting started -- Beginning your search in the United States -- Finding your place of origin -- Italian civil records, 1866 to the present -- Pre-unification civil records -- Ecclesiastical records -- Reading the records -- Records in Italian archives -- Researching Italian ancestors online -- Appendices
Offers advice on researching family history on the Web, including search strategies, data sharing, government records, genealogical software, and publishing the results on the Web. Includes index.
"A Touchstone book." Ask yourself why you're doing this, or, Genealogy for beginners -- They see dead people but I stick to the living, or, Join your local Genealogical Society -- Interview your relatives and go to your high school reunion, or, Rust never sleeps -- CSI: Lido deck : the genealogy cruise, part 1 -- Beaches and Burke's peerage, or, The genealogy cruise, part 2 -- Information wants to be free, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love DNA testing -- Get back to where you once belonged, or, Hitting the road to Alabama with cousin Mooner -- The mountain and the cloud, or, A pilgrimage to Salt Lake City's Family History Library -- Ask yourself why you're doing this-- and keep asking.
