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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: Getting Started with Genealogy
• Chapter 1: Beginning Your Ancestral Journey
• It’s About Time(line)
• Learning about Sources
• Entering Information into RootsMagic Essentials
• Creating the Virtual You
• Giving Your Ancestors Some Mobility
• Telling Your Story
• Chapter 2: Hunting for Your Ancestral Treasures
• A Brief Message about Research Steps
• Selecting a Person to Begin Your Search
• Beginning to Put the Puzzle Together
• Adding Your Ancestors One by One
• Chapter 3: Searching Primary Resource Sites
• Touring Ancestry.com
• RootsWeb.com at a Glance
• Investigating FamilySearch
• Giving Back through FamilySearch Indexing
• Saluting Fold3
• Finding Your Past
• Exploring MyHeritage
• Chapter 4: Using All of Your Censuses
• Coming to Your Census
• Finding Your Ancestors in U.S. Census Records
• Census Records from Afar
• Part 2: Bringing Your Ancestor to Life
• Chapter 5: Digging Deeper into Your Ancestors’ Lives
• These Records Are Vital
• Investigating Immigration and Naturalization Records
• Land Ho! Researching Land Records
• Marching to a Different Drummer: Searching for Military Records
• Taxation with Notation
• Trial and Error at the Courthouse
• Getting the News on Your Ancestors
• Chapter 6: Mapping the Past
• Are We There Yet? Researching Where “There” Was to Your Ancestors
• There’s No Place like Home: Using Local Resources
• Mapping Your Ancestor’s Way
• Wrapping It Up (with a Surprise)
• Chapter 7: Searching for That Elusive Ancestor
• Letting Your Computer Do the Walking: Using Search Engines
• Flying with Genealogy Vertical Search Engines
• Finding the Site That’s Best for You
• Family Trees Ripe for the Picking: Finding Compiled Resources
• Browsing Comprehensive Genealogical Indexes
• Chapter 8: Going Beyond Borders: International and Ethnic Records
• Fishing for International and Ethnic Sources
• Records from the English-Speaking World
• Hispanic and Portuguese Roots
• Achtung! Using Sites for the German-Speaking World
• Focusing on French Resources
• Scanning Scandinavian Countries
• Italian Cooking
• Other European Sites
• Asian Resources
• Researching African Ancestry
• American Indian Resources
• Chapter 9: Specializing in Your Family History
• Researching Religious Group Records
• Finding Fraternal Orders and Service Clubs
• A Photo Is Worth a Thousand Words
• Accessing Adoption Records
• Preparing to Be Schooled
• Turning to Bible Records
• Snooping through Great-Grandma’s Diary
• Nosing through Newspaper Records
• Part 3: Putting Your Family History to the Test
• Chapter 10: Fitting into Your Genes: Genetic Genealogy
• Ask What DNA Can Do for You
• A Friendly Word of Caution
• Delving into DNA
• Family History: Documentation versus Genetics
• Testing Companies
• Selecting the Right Test for You
• Finding Helpful DNA Sites
• Chapter 11: Direct-Line Genetic Tests
• Y chromosome (Y-DNA) testing
• Mitochondrial (mtDNA) testing
• Chapter 12: Autosomal DNA (atDNA) Testing
• But First a Quick Review
• Testing Process
• What Can I Learn from Autosomal DNA Testing?
• Ethnicity Estimation
• Relationship Testing
• X-Chromosome DNA Testing
• Utilities to the Rescue
• Part 4: Casting Your Nets in the Genealogy Sea
• Chapter 13: Finding Your Research Path
• Introducing the Helm Online Family Tree Research Cycle
• Too Many Ancestor Irons in the Research Fire
• Verifying Your Information
• Chapter 14: Share and Share Alike
• Why Would Anyone Want Your Stuff?
• Making Friends on Facebook
• Pinning Family History to Pinterest
• Realizing Instant Gratification with Instagram
• Networking Genealogy-Style
• Blogging for Attention
• Building Your Own Home
• Including Your GEDCOM
• Earning a Good Citizenship Award
• Chapter 15: Help Wanted!
• Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
• The Shotgun Approach
• Making Friends (and Keeping Them) Online
• Joining a Herd: Research Groups
• Gathering Kinfolk: Using the Family Reunion for Research
• Rent-a-Researcher
• DNA Consulting
• Helping Yourself
• Part 5: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 16: Ten Sites Worth a Visit
• rootsfinder
• FamilySearch Help Center
• WeRelate
• kindex
• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse
• Photogrammar
• Story Corps
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
• ArchiveGrid
• Chapter 17: Ten Mobile Applications for Genealogy Research
• Ancestry
• FamilySearch Tree
• RootsMagic
• BillionGraves
• Evernote
• The Family Nexus
• Saving Memories Forever
• OldNews USA
• QromaTag
• Kindle
• About the Authors
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement