Books Unpuzzling Your Past

Since the first edition in 1983, Unpuzzling Your Past has helped thousands of genealogists start collecting and preserving their family history or refreshing and honing their research skills. A practical guide for teachers and students alike, Unpuzzling is a popular textbook for genealogy classes, including the class of the same name online at Barnes and Noble University.com.

Carrying on the tradition of the first edition, the fourth edition includes:

• aids for interviewing relatives and gathering data from family sources
• comprehensive information on using federal census records
• guide to cemetery, newspaper, and courthouse research and use of state and federal records of many kinds
• illustrations, research examples, and an in-depth case study
• useful forms, including federal census extraction forms for 1790 through 1930 censuses and a unique family group sheet that encourages documentation of data
• a chapter on handwriting of the past
• reference lists, bibliographies, glossary, relationship chart

Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 2001. 4th ed. 284 pages, softbound.
$18.99 retail. ISBN 1-55870-556-2.

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