Researching Your Family History Online For Dummies, UK Edition

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Researching Your Family History Online For Dummies, UK Edition offers a comprehensive guide to tracing your ancestry using online resources. Written with the UK audience in mind, it covers essential research methods and effective online search techniques to help you uncover your family's past. With practical tips for using genealogical websites and navigating digital archives, this book is an invaluable tool for both beginners and experienced family historians.
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You might enjoy this book if you're keen on delving into your genealogy and tracing your family's history using online resources. It offers practical guidance tailored to UK readers, making it easier to navigate different databases, records, and tools for uncovering your ancestral roots. Whether you're a novice or have some experience, this book provides valuable insights and techniques to enrich your family history research journey.

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Researching Your Family History Online For Dummies, UK Edition

This revised edition of the bestselling Genealogy Online For Dummies provides readers with all the expert advice they'll need to create a complete and detailed family tree using the Internet.

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Navigate your way through your family’s past

Interested in family history? Keen to discover who your ancestors really were? Want to find out more from the comfort of your own home? If so, this book is for you. Walking you through the process of researching, organising and presenting your family tree online, this expert guide makes it simple. So what are you waiting for? Get plugged in and start tracking down your ancestors today!

Lay the groundwork – take the first steps on your genealogical journey and start searching for evidence

Find out about your ancestors – discover who your predecessors were and where they came from

Get to grips with research tools – find the best online and offline archives and dig deeper into your family’s past

Present your results effectively – compile your findings into a family tree and create a place to host your material online

Praise for the 1st Edition of this book:

‘Easy to read yet filled with facts and information, this is a solid reference guide with everything for the beginner – and perhaps something for the more experienced too.’
– Family History Monthly

‘There is a lot of good advice in this book for those starting out.’
– Ancestors

Open the book and find:

What clues you can get from photos, letters, diaries and your relatives

The best genealogy websites in the UK and around the world

How to get the most out of archives and documents

Techniques for creating family history charts on your computer

The advantages of coordinating your hunt with other researchers

Ways to share research online

Tips and tricks for building a family history web page

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Researching Your Family History Online For Dummies, UK Edition is praised as an excellent resource for family history researchers. It is filled with valuable information, serving as a quick reference guide to aid in genealogy exploration.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470745359

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 September 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 567g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Dr Nick Barratt is the CEO of Sticks Research Agency (SRA), a research company specialising in family history. Nick was also the genealogical consultant for four series of the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?. Sarah-Jane Newbery is a historian at SRA. Jenny Thomas, Matthew L. Helm and April Leigh Helm are genealogists.

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