Genealogy
Finding Indiana Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Research
Teresa Baer and Geneil Breeze
This book is a powerful tool, providing an overview of historical research while focusing on Indiana-specific sources. Authored by journalists and archivists, librarians, genealogists, and historians in the state's major historical and genealogical organizations, this book forms a complete guide for research in Indiana. Six model chapters show how to turn data into stories. This significant new guide will help researchers learn how to get started, where to go for the next piece of information, how to intepret the data, and how to incorporate each new fact into the stories of Indiana's ancestors.
paper 301 pp. 2007 / ISBN 978-0-87195-203-5 / $29.95
Order No. 2638
Roots for Kids: A Genealogy Guide for Young People
Susan Provost Beller
This book is based on a twelve week course the author developed for her fourth grade class. Each chapter is based on a forty-five minute classroom session. While the book is suitable for adoption by teachers seeking to supplement their middle school social studies curriculum with material on family history, its principal use will be by and with individual young people. The book is written at a level appropriate to its audience. The author moves slowly and carefully, as she takes young readers through an introduction to genealogy, to discussions of their families and their parents’ families— learning how to ask questions (oral history)... researching local, state, and national records... using libraries and historical societies... much more.
paper 128 pp. 1989 / ISBN 0-8063-1525-3 / $19.00
Order No. 2514
The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research
Emily Anne Croom
Follow in the footsteps of expert genealogist Emily Croom. In the book she presents a unique down-to-earth look at genealogical research, employing the savvy experience of world-famous literary sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple.
paper 304 pp. 2000 / ISBN 1-55870-532-5 / $19.00
Order No. 2515
Family Memories: Photos Albums Journals
Suzanne McNeill and Lani Stiles
This valuable book will inspire you to create family albums in remembrance of any occasion, milestone or event. Hundreds of ideas and patterns show how to organize, arrange, write and decorate pages. You will discover creative ways to showcase favorite photos from school, holidays, weddings, baby, birthdays and vacations. In addition, learn about archival precautions to keep photos safe from fading and deterioration.
paper 128 pp.1996 / ISBN 1-57421-005-X / $22.00
Order No. 2497
Evie Finds Her Family Tree
Ashley B. Ransburg
Young children will enjoy the tale of Evie, a little girl who tries to discover the meaning of her family tree. This illustrated storybook includes a 32’ x 24” illustrated family tree chart that children can complete using their own family information.
cloth 30 pp. ISBN 0-87195-187-8 / $14.95
Order No 2594
Finding Indiana Ancestors
Dorothy Riker, et al. compiler
A short, introductory publication including local Indiana resources.
paper 17 pp.1967 / ISBN 0-87195-057-X / $3.00
Order No. 2501
Who's Your Hoosier Ancestor?—Genealogy for Beginners
Mona Robinson
A source for locating elusive ancestors of Hoosiers and descendants of anyone who ever lived in Indiana. Describes records available, where they can be found, and how to use them most effectively.
cloth 215 pp.1992 / ISBN 0-253-20731-2 / $19.95
Order No. 2128
Publishing Your Family History on the Internet
Richard S. Wilson
Don’t spend all of your time searching the Internet—let others do the work for you—let them find your own genealogical Web site. This book was developed to help the genealogist discover how easy and beneficial it is to publish your family history on the Internet. This book will help you design and create Web pages, discover ways to get Web space for free, advertise your site, and create your Web site on the Internet.
paper 358 pp. 1999 / ISBN 0-938717-36-7 / $15.00
Order No. 2512
Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Offline Genealogy for Kids
Ira Wolfman
A complete guide for the ancestor detector, both off and online. It explains how to conduct an interview; how to track down ships’ manifests, naturalization records, birth and marriage certificates; how to decipher old-fashioned handwriting and interpret names; how to compile a family tree, assemble a scrapbook, and more. Includes information for special situations, such as adoptees, nontraditional families, and recent immigrants. Your story is out there here are the tools to find it.
paper 240 pp.1991 / ISBN 0-7611-2539-6 / $14.00
Order No. 2495
An Index to Naturalization Records in Pre-1907: Order Books of Indiana Counties Courts
The index to naturalization records contained in this book serves as an invaluable resource for genealogical researchers whether they are seeking a “lost” relation or are eager to document the points at which their ancestors became citizens of the United State of America. The new foreword attempts to differentiate between the records indexed for this publication—which are housed in Indiana’s ninety two county courthouses, and all other naturalization records—which are kept by law at the Indiana State Archives (part of the state’s Commission on Public Records).
paper 182 pp. 2001 / ISBN 0-87195-156-8 / $25.00
Order No 2510
paper / ISSN 1071-3301 / $1.00 (1-19 copies); $.30 (20 or more copies - no additional discount)
Collecting Your History
What can you learn about your family? What can you tell your children and grandchildren?
12 pp. 1994 / Order No. 7003
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