How To Find Your Family Roots And Write Your Family History: Second Edition

Have you ever wondered if one of your ancestors was a famous person? A president, or even a king or a queen? If you’ve shown a flair for painting or writing, maybe you’ve fantasized that you inherited your talent from an ancestor with a a name like Michelangelo or Shakespeare. Now you can create a priceless inheritance for future generations and satisfy your own curiosity!

In How To Find Your Family Roots and Write Your Family History, William Latham and Cindy Higgins show you how to trace your family history in a simple, easy, and inexpensive manner. This revised version of the best-selling How To Find Your Family Roots has been updated to include the latest internet resources and expanded to offer step-by-step instructions on how to write your family history in a way that is as entertaining and exciting as a historical novel! You’ll discover:

How to interview family members

Where to look for family relics and treasures

How to utilize the latest Internet resources

What to ask librarians

Where to obtain church recrds

How to research vital records

How to use government resources

How to search for your ancestors in foreign countries

A country-by-country list of sources

A state-by-state list of sources

How to organize your research material

How to incorporate history and storytelling into your writing

How to design and print your family history

How to share your family history with relatives