The Roosevelts: An Intimate History chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first...
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The Family Tree Problem Solver: Tried-and-True Tactics for Tracing Elusive Ancestors
Proven Solutions for Your Research Challenges Has your family history research hit a brick wall? Marsha Hoffman Rising’s best-selling book The Family Tree Problem Solver has the solutions to...
Explore Your German Ancestry
The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe I recently purchased this book on Kindle to help me locate my missing German ancestors. I’ve found a wealth...
Stories Of Ohio (The Ohioans of the Ice Age)
The first Ohio stories are part of the common story of the wonderful Ice Age, when a frozen deluge pushed down from the north, and covered a vast part of the earth’s surface with slowly moving...
Courthouse Research for Family Historians: Your Guide to Genealogical Treasures
Finally–the only guidebook devoted exclusively to research in America’s courthouses. Full of essentials starting with preparation, interacting with the clerks, using the indexes, and what...
Edward Rutherfurd on New York
Strangely, I suspect it was Viking ancestors who drew me to New York. For centuries my father’s family lived on Britain’s biggest tidal river, the Severn, on which there was a huge trade...
Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring
Here’s a superb book from Amazon.com that I highly recommend. Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring is based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian...
Genealogy offline: Finding family history records that are not online
Experienced genealogists know that the vast majority of valuable family history records are NOT online, but are housed in libraries, archives, historical societies and courthouses across the nation...
101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree
This guide contains 101 of the best websites for free genealogy, The One-Hour Genealogist guide was researched, tested and compiled by foremost Internet genealogy expert, Nancy Hendrickson. Using her...
A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England
A Reforming People: Puritanism and the Transformation of Public Life in New England A revelatory account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies...
The Family Tree Historical Maps Book: A State-by-State Atlas of US History, 1790-1900
Journey Into the Past! Envision your ancestors’ world–as your ancestors knew it–through hundreds of beautiful full-color reproductions of useful eighteenth and nineteenth century...