Bibliograph

Finding Grandma's European ancestors, by Stephen Szabados

Type

Label

Finding Grandma's European ancestors, by Stephen Szabados

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-119)

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Finding Grandma's European ancestors

Nature of contents

bibliographyhandbooks

Oclc number

775503420

Responsibility statement

by Stephen Szabados

Summary

"The author draws from his genealogical research experiences to describe the resources that are available and how to use them to find out where your ancestors were born in Europe and then find records that list the names of your European ancestors"--P. [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Where to start -- Step 1 : finding town names. Documents from the "old country" ; Interview relatives ; Marriage records ; Naturalization petitions ; Passenger manifests ; Social Security application ; Military records ; Employment records ; Death certificates ; Obituaries -- Step 2 : learn the history of the country and area -- Step 3 : gazetteers and maps. Using gazetteers ; Using maps -- Step 4 : finding ancestor records. Family History Center films and other databases ; Location of records in the "old country" ; German script and other alphabets ; Translating the records -- Desperate measures. Message boards ; Online family trees -- Appendix A: useful websites and books -- Appendix B: Old German handwriting chart -- Appendix C: other alphabets

Target audience

adult

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