Growing Your Family Tree

The process of exploring your family history and roots is a moving and meaningful quest. It affects heart and soul, as well as providing an intellectual challenge to piece all the information together. GROWING YOUR FAMILY TREE is the first book to promote the experiential aspects of family history. It gives sound, practical advice on researching your family history, but also promotes the emotional, spiritual and creative elements of the task, helping to lift genealogy out of its earlier dry an formal setting, into a more meaningful and accessible activity which can enrich a person's identity. Advice and information includes: * How to write up your family history * How to make a heritage corner or trail in your home * A consideration the nature of ancestry, family lines and our inner connection with our ancestors * How to organise your research and keep moving forward

Many people want to trace their roots and there has never been a better time to do so. However, with so many online resources now available it can be a daunting task for the beginner. This book will go through all the basics from gathering information from relatives and using County Archives, to making use of the best of the internet. It explains in depth how to obtain relevant documents, how to gather clues to further your research and how to do all this in the most economical way. A new addition to the book is how to go about searching American, European and Canadian Records.

After 28 Years of Researching, Family History and Genealogy, and much prompting from a number of people, I'm writing this Genealogical Book, "Growing Your Family Tree - Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff". It will be of particular interest to those with Ancestry in Nova Scotia, and Atlantic Canada, but the scope of the book does go beyond those areas, and I hope You enjoy it and it helps You with Your Family History and Growing Your Family Tree. ~ Brian W. Hurlburt"Brian has sorted the wheat from the chaff in this most informative book on 'Growing Your Family Tree'. Beginning and Seasoned genealogists alike, will find it an essential, informative read!" By Dianne Perrin B.Ed.

A guide to finding out one's own family history and how to formally record it.

When Stephanie meets a reporter who is doing a story on big families, she volunteers the Tanners and plans a reunion. But a huge fight breaks out, and the reporter has the photos to prove it! Can Stephanie bring the family together and rewrite the story's ending?

From the author of P is for Pearl comes a heart-warming book about family, friendship and what home can mean. Stella may only be seventeen, but having read every self-help book she can find means she knows a thing or two about helping people. She sure wasn't expecting to be the one in need of help, though. Thanks to her father's gambling addiction, Stella and her family now find themselves living at Fairyland Caravan Park. And hiding this truth from her friends is hard enough without dealing with another secret. Stella's birth mother has sent her a letter. As Stella deals with the chaos of her family, she must also confront the secrets and past of her 'other' family. But Stella is stronger than she realises. From the author of P is for Pearl comes a heart-warming book about family, friendship and what home can mean. PRAISE FOR HOW TO GROW A FAMILY TREE 'This engaging novel for young adults doesn't sugar-coat the difficult sides of life but it has substantial stretches of hope and beauty. It covers a lot of social ground, from such topics as adoption and financial trouble to the full awfulness of addiction [...] but the plot and characters are always paramount' -- The Age AWARDS FOR HOW TO GROW A FAMILY TREE Shortlisted - Queensland Literary Awards (Griffith University Young Adult Book Award)

Building your family tree has never been easier. With this simple, three-step plan, even beginners can quickly master the basics of family history research. Step 1: Gather the information you already know about yourself and your family using sources you can find at your fingertips--photo albums, school records, letters, birth certificates, and more. Step 2: Organize your discoveries in handy worksheets and the easy-to-use Family Tree Maker software. Step 3: Search for information about your ancestors using tips and tricks practiced by professional genealogists. You'll learn how to use sources like the U.S. federal censuses and discover great ideas for tapping into a wide range of resources on the Internet, from online family trees to message boards and mailing lists.