A Field Guide For Genealogists Second Edition by Judy Jacobson

You are sitting in a library and have just reached a dead end. Or maybe you have found a picture of some people that are purported to be ancestors of yours, but you just don't know who they are. Or you are doing research in a courthouse when you come upon a term in a will or a measurement in a land record that you don't understand. Maybe you find a newspaper from the dates and place where your ancestors lived, but you aren't sure what to look for.

In order to understand some of the things we run into as genealogist, it sometimes seems like we need to carry around a library with us. Of course, we just can't. Even if we could, some of us wouldn't know how to make the best use of it anyway.

This book will be a viable alternative -- a useful tool which we can take with us in our purses or briefcases -- that can help answer those little questions that come up.

Chapters Include:

• The Laws of Genealogy
• Genealogy In General
• Names
• Titles
• Place Names
• Libraries
• Photographs
• Diseases and Calamities
• Courthouses
• Land Records
• Law
• Deciphering Documents
• Graveyards
• Measurements
• Time
• Money
• Museums
• occupations
• Groups
• Time After Time
• Archives
• Research in Washington, D.C.
• Researching Genealogy on the Internet
• Miscellaneous Sources and Additional Reading

Each chapter has several sub topics that help us get around, through, and over our brick walls. A must book for your genealogy shelf.