genealogy

"Beecher White makes an alarming discovery on the White House grounds: there is a severed arm buried in the Rose Garden. As he investigates, he realizes it's a message... that may have dire repercussions for the President. Even worse, the message turns Beecher's personal life upside down, pointing him towards the dark truth about his father's death"--Provided by publisher.

A magical coin leads sixth-graders Ruthie and Jack to 1753 Massachusetts and to Jack's pirate ancestor when they return to the Art Institute of Chicago's miniature Thorne Rooms on a mission to restore an African American family's reputation.

Provides an introduction into researching family history and making a family tree.

"Come explore a boy's family tree one side at a time, starting from the front of his photo album and then starting from the back--and see how they come together in the middle!"--Inside front cover.

"Justina 'Ju' Feliciano and her fellow seventh-grade sleuths are on the case! A sneaky vandal has damaged scenery from the middle school drama club production and the newbie detectives must catch the culprit before opening night. But Ju faces a completely different kind of mystery when a genetics assignment forces her to investigate the cold hard fact that her frizzy blonde hair and amber eyes don't match the shades of brown that run in her family. This is one case she wishes she didn't have to solve. Only there's no escaping the Blueprint of Life Project, so Ju searches the attic for family documents she needs to complete her schoolwork. Instead, she discovers strange clues that make her wonder if her parents are keeping a huge secret"--Amazon.com.

Evie overhears her parents talking about their family tree and wonders whether they mean the holly, the sugar maple, the magnolia, or the oak.

"In this edition, the author assumes you know most Internet technologies and programs, and that you want to know how to use them to do your genealogy. The potential for finding clues, data, and other researchers looking for your same family names has increased exponentially in the last decade. Since 2000, push technology, streaming video, blogs, podcasts, social networking, and indexed document scans have radically changed what can be found on the Internet and how we search for it. If you feel you need formal instruction in researching family history, online courses, from basic self-paced text to college-level instruction, can now make that happen. In short, online genealogy has never been better, and it's a good time to try your hand at it!"--.

Presents a guide to researching one's family history, including locating informative documents and vital records, organizing findings, and using DNA as a research tool. Includes a glossary, an appendix, and an index.

The author dramatizes his family's history from 1811 to 1948, from his Dutch Jewish great-great-great-grandfather's choice of a last name, coerced by Napoleonic edict, to his aunts' and uncles' fates in the concentration camps and after World War II.

Explains how to create units on family history in primary and secondary classes to encourage student interest in a variety of academic topics, including instructions for activities such as family member interviews, kinship charts, family and formal history time lines, and family history videos.