genealogy

Offers African-Americans advice on the best ways to trace their family's heritage, including case histories, illustrations and photographs of useful documents, sample worksheets and forms, and lists of common traps researchers can fall into.

Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents.

Ellie looks at old photos with her great-grandmother and learns about her family history and what life was like when her great-grandmother was young.

While trying to construct her family tree for a school assignment, eleven-year-old Tyler discovers her Amish heritage and other secrets about her family's past.

A young girl shares her grandmothers photo album.

This book uses simple language and detailed images and charts to explain how genetic ancestry testing is done, what it can, and cannot, reveal about a family tree, and the potential unintended consequences of being tested.

"Presents tips and techniques for doing genealogical research, offering insight into immigration and major internal migrations throughout U.S. history, providing hands-on activities, and sharing advice on avoiding the problems that stump genealogists"--OCLC.

"Traces the author's three-year investigation into what constitutes family, describing how, after receiving an e-mail from a stranger who claimed to be a distant cousin, he embarked on an effort to build the biggest family tree in history."--OCLC.

"Presents tips and techniques for doing genealogical research, offering insight into immigration and major internal migrations throughout U.S. history, providing hands-on activities, and sharing advice on avoiding the problems that stump genealogists"--OCLC.

"When Judy learns that some of her ancestors lived in England and are possibly related to the Queen, her nemesis Jessica Finch finds more surprise relatives that Judy wishes she could hide in a dungeon somewhere"--OCLC.