Revised edition with 2016 addendum incorporating editorial corrections to the 2009 edition / by Denise Larson.
Description
309 pages ; 26 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Seeing ancestors in historical context -- Creating a timeline -- Why did they leave? -- How did they go? -- Coming to America -- Myths, confusions, secrets and lies -- Even harder to find missing persons -- Social history and community genealogy -- State by state -- Region by region.
Summary
History lays the foundation to understand a group of people. Genealogy lays the foundation to understand a person or family using tangible historic evidence.