Climbing your family tree : online and offline genealogy for kids : the official Ellis Island handbook by Ira Wolfman ; foreword by Cyndi Howells ; introduction by Alex Haley ; illustrations by Tim Robinson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolfman, Ira.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genealogy--Juvenile literature.

Genealogy.

Physical Description:

xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 21 x 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Workman Pub., 2002.

Summary:

In the ten years since the publication of Do People Grow on Family Trees? (121,000 copies in print), the Internet has completely transformed genealogy, making family history the second most popular hobby in the U.S. after gardening and genealogy the second most searched for subject on the Web. Now completely revised, updated, retitled, and filled with detailed guidance on utilizing the Internet, Climbing Your Family Tree is the comprehensive, kid-friendly genealogical primer for the 21st century, and a dramatic story of how and why our ancestors undertook the arduous voyages of immigration to this nation. It teaches kids to track down important family documents, including ships' manifests, naturalization papers, and birth, marriage, and death certificates; create oral histories; make scrapbooks of photos, sayings, and legends; and compile a family tree. A full chapter is devoted to the online search, and relevant Internet information has been incorporated into all the other chapters. Also new are more kids' genealogical stories and a reworked, easier-to-use design, and supporting the book will be a Web site that will include record-keeping pages, links to sites in the book, and more.

Contents:

Foreword / Cyndi Howells

Introduction / Alex Haley

Ancestor detectors at work

Getting started

Let's talk about...us!

What's your name?

How we got here

Becoming an American

Great record hunt

Catching your ancestors with a net

Where the records are

"My story's a little different"

Getting connected

Appendix

Dictionary of American last names

Correspondence log

Abstract of Citizenship papers

Freedom of information/privacy act request form G-639

Further reading

Index.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Do people grow on family trees? c1991.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-216) and index.

ISBN:

0761125396 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780761125396 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

48906633

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