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Ancestry's
RED BOOK:
American State, County and Town Sources
Edited by Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G.
Maps by William Dollarhide
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DearREADERS,
So you are making a little progress in your family
history research, having interviewed most of your older
relatives?! Now you'll begin searching for government,
church and public records created in the localities where
your ancestors once lived! For US researchers, the Ancestry's
Red Book is an essential reference book for
understanding and finding those old documents!
NEED TO KNOW -- WHEN a county was
created? WHERE the probate records are
kept? WHAT the migration patterns were? IF
there are surviving church records of christening,
marriage and burial? HOW the county
boundaries changed over the years? Ancestry's
Red Book has the answers!
From the publisher:
"Providing county and town
listings within an overall state-by-state organization, Ancestry's Red Book is the result of
the collective efforts of a host of professional
researchers, all experts in their particular fields
of research, and state archivists and their staffs.
This book contains information on the holdings of
every county in the United States, providing a
virtual what's what of genealogical resources in
every state and the District of Columbia. Ancestry's
Red Book also gives a thorough explanation of
identifying record jurisdictions. For example,
jurisdictions are typically based in the counties in
the Midwestern states, but are based primarily in the
towns in the New England states. This book sets the
standard for resource identification."
I must turn to this book fifteen or twenty times in a
three hour volunteer shift at our local LDS Family
History Center. Ancestry's Red Book
gets you quickly up to speed on what to expect when
researching a particular state for clues about your
ancestors.
This one is on my "A" list!!!
Ancestry's Red Book: American State,
County & Town Sources
Edited by Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G.
Maps by William Dollarhide
Copyright 1992. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing
858 pages, 8 3/4 by 11, hardbound
ISBN 0-916489-47-7
$49.95 plus shipping - click
here to order at 10% discount!
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