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Author Colletta, John Philip, 1949-

Title Discovering your roots : an introduction to genealogy / John Philip Colletta.

Publication Info. Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2014]
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  GREAT COURSES 929.1 DISCOVERING    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LECTURE SERIES 929.1 COL 9 CDS    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Audio Materials  AUDIOBOOK CD 929.1 COLLETTA    Check Shelf
Description 8 audio discs (approximately 7 hr., 30 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 12 cm + 1 course guidebook (129 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.).
digital optical rda
audio file CD audio rda
Series The great courses
Great courses (Compact disc)
Performer Professor John Philip Colletta, lecturer.
Note Compact discs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references in course guidebook.
Summary This course of 15 half-hour lectures by Professor Colletta presents different procedures for locating sources of ancestors' records in America.
Contents Disc 1. Interviewing kin and mining home sources ; Genealogy online -- gems and junk -- Disc 2. The library -- shelves full of family history ; Military service and homestead records -- Disc 3. How to build historical context ; Your ancestors in ship passenger lists -- Disc 4. Your ancestors in naturalization records ; The genealogical proof standard -- Disc 5. Your ancestors in the county courthouse ; Your ancestors in state records -- Disc 6. How to write biography ; Dos and don'ts of writing history -- Disc 7. Seaching in your ancestors' backyards ; Assembling an account of your discoveries -- Disc 8. Extending your family tree overseas.
Subject United States -- Genealogy -- Sources.
Genealogy.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Archival resources.
Ships -- United States -- Passenger lists.
Added Author Teaching Company.
Added Title Introduction to genealogy
ISBN 9781629970752
1629970751
9781490690605
1490690603
Music No. 9394 The Great Courses
GC0728 Recorded Books
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