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Voices in Your Blood is a practical guide to genealogy, but it's also something more. Vandagriff becomes your companion in the search for heritage. She shares her own experiences as a genealogist, her triumphs and frustrations, as she guides you through the complex but richly rewarding process of unearthing the past.
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Your Missing Heritage | 1 |
| 2 | Asking Questions | 4 |
| Quizzing Your Relatives | 4 | |
| Questioning the "Givens" | 7 | |
| 3 | Constructing a Bridge | 14 |
| Creating Your Own Blueprint | 16 | |
| Doing an Evaluation | 21 | |
| What's Important and What's Not? | 23 | |
| 4 | Starting to Build | 25 |
| Obtaining County Records by Correspondence | 26 | |
| Corresponding with Libraries and Societies | 31 | |
| 5 | Using the Census as a Building Tool | 37 |
| Learning to Use the Census (1850-1870) | 39 | |
| Uses for the Early Census (1790-1840) | 43 | |
| Using the Later Censuses (1880-1920) | 45 | |
| 6 | Building with Twentieth-Century Technology | 51 |
| Ancestral File | 52 | |
| International Genealogical Index | 56 | |
| Social Security Death Index | 59 | |
| Military Index | 60 | |
| 7 | Using the Largest Family History Library in the World | 61 |
| Locality Browse | 64 | |
| Locality Search | 66 | |
| Surname Search | 67 | |
| 8 | The Finer Touches | 72 |
| Surname Research | 73 | |
| Military Records | 79 | |
| Immigration Records | 87 | |
| What Do I Do Next? | 92 | |
| 9 | Spanning the Final Gap | 93 |
| 10 | Putting Your Work in Perspective | 106 |
| 11 | Hearing the Voice | 115 |
| Frontier Ballad | 115 | |
| App. A: Where to Write for Vital Records | 131 | |
| App. B: Four Family History Software Packages | 141 | |
| App. C: Where to Get Genealogy Forms | 158 | |
| App. D: Where to Find the Census | 159 | |
| App. E: Sources for Colonial American Immigration Records | 160 | |
| About the Author | 164 | |
| Bibliography | 165 | |
| Index | 167 |
Overview
Voices in Your Blood is a practical guide to genealogy, but it's also something more. Vandagriff becomes your companion in the search for heritage. She shares her own experiences as a genealogist, her ...