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Finding your family tree : a beginner's guide to researching your genealogy  Cover Image Book Book

Finding your family tree : a beginner's guide to researching your genealogy / Sharon Leslie Morgan.

Summary:

"Genealogy offers the opportunity to understand who you are through your family history. With this knowledge, you can embrace your identity, understand your own health and wellness, reconnect with your roots and family origins, and find an overall sense of wholeness. Finding Your Family Tree: A Beginner's Guide to Researching Your Family Tree is the perfect starting point on this journey of self-discovery. With author and expert genealogist Sharon L Morgan at your side, you can explore even the thorniest family tree. Sharon shows you how to embrace the world of genealogical research and provides guidance for underrepresented groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and anyone else who is interested in connecting with their family background. Beyond exploring the practical challenges of researching your family history, this book will show you what's most exciting about this research-the unique family stories and histories you'll discover, but also the essential truths that bind and connect us all"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781577153429 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 152 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Wellfleet Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-148) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Build Your Family Tree -- My Family Story -- Oral History -- Census Records -- Vital Records -- Military Records -- Court Records -- Special People -- DNA Testing -- So Much More.
Subject: Genealogy.
Genre: Handbooks and manuals.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Stroud Branch 929.1 Mor 31681010323780 NONFIC Available -

Sharon Leslie Morgan is a writer and genealogist as well as an expert in multicultural marketing. She is the founder of Our Black Ancestry, a website and Facebook group devoted to African American genealogy, that has more than 35,000 members. She writes and speaks extensively. In 2021, she was a keynote speaker for the annual RootsTech conference. Sponsored by FamilySearch, it is the largest family history convocation in the world. It was attended (virtually) by over 1 million participants from 242 countries. 

She is the co-author, with Thomas Norman DeWolf, of GATHER AT THE TABLE: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade (Beacon Press, 2012). It won the Phillis Wheatley Award for best nonfiction/memoir at the Harlem Book Fair.


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