Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques

A professional genealogist reveals how to get past brick walls in research and unearth hard-to-find ancestors 

Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques uses up-to-date and highly organized methods and techniques to show you how to find the elusive details to round out your genealogy research. You’ll get past the brick walls that have stumped you and see how to move beyond basic types of genealogy resources. The book covers a variety of software programs and specialized genealogy tools and shows you how to create an online genealogical research log to preserve data found and organize it in ways to help you understand what you’ve uncovered. Nearly every form of modern social networking is addresses as is using DNA records. This practical, in-depth guide provides the next level of detail for anyone who wants to expand beyond the beginner tactics and techniques.

• Uses proven research methods to go deeper and uncover elusive details 
• Helps you to understand the details you uncover and keep track of data 
• Covers a variety of software programs and specialized genealogy tools 
• Offers multiple scenarios and examples to drive home the research methods explained

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

This database contains listings of approximately 2,750,000 individuals who arrived in United States ports between 1538 and 1940. These records can provide valuable family history information to those with immigrant ancestors. This information was collected from published passenger lists, naturalization records, church records, family and local histories, as well as voter and land registrations. This knowledge may help you determine additional information such as the name of the ship on which your ancestors sailed and the location of their naturalization.

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Listings Include:- Name and age of immigrant
- Year and place of immigration
- Full source information
- Source code of immigration record
- Names of family members with whom they traveled

Passenger and Immigration Lists: Italians to America, 1880-1893

This database contains information on approximately 413,000 individuals who immigrated to the United States from Italy between 1880 and 1893. Originally published as a series of book volumes, Italians to America was the first indexed reference work devoted to Italian immigrants to the United States. While the entire series contains twelve volumes and covers the years 1880 through 1899, this database contains the first seven volumes of the series and covers the years 1880 through 1893. An important feature of these first seven volumes is that almost all of the immigrants listed arrived in New York City.

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Listings Include:- Name, age, and gender
- Occupation
- Village/town of origin
- Means of travel (e.g., steerage, stowaway)
- Purpose for traveling to the United States
- Destination in the United States
- Whether the passenger was literate
- Name of the captain with whom the person traveled
- Information on the sailing vessel

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

The United States was more a fragile hope than a reality in 1790. During the decade that followed, the Founding Fathers–re-examined here as Founding Brothers–combined the ideals of the Declaration of Independence with the content of the Constitution to create the practical workings of our government. Through an analysis of six fascinating episodes–Hamilton and Burr’s deadly duel, Washington’s precedent-setting Farewell Address, Adams’ administration and political partnership with his wife, the debate about where to place the capital, Franklin’s attempt to force Congress to confront the issue of slavery and Madison’s attempts to block him, and Jefferson and Adams’ famous correspondence–Founding Brothers brings to life the vital issues and personalities from the most important decade in our nation’s history.

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Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930

"Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups . . . but Wyman is the first to treat . . . every major group . . . . Wyman explains returning to Europe as not just the fulfillment of original intentions but also the result of 'anger at bosses and clocks, nostalgia for waiting families,' nativist resentment and heavy-handed Americanization programs, and a complex of other problems. . . . Wyman's 'nine broad conclusions' about the returnees deserve to be read by everyone concerned with international migration."—Journal of American History
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Immigrants to America, 1600's-1800's

Trace your ancestor's journey across the seas! Spanning states and centuries, this resource contains immigration data on various nationalities and destinations, from New York to Louisiana. Approximately 200,000 individuals are referenced in this collection of passenger lists, legal documents, church histories, land records, biographies, and tax lists.

Including several out of print volumes, these 20 volumes were originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company. Among these unique resources, you'll find a comprehensive account of Scotch-Irish immigration to South Carolina as well as a list of passengers who arrived in Charleston between 1820 and 1829. The Philadelphia "baggage lists" contained here, referencing about 40,000 individuals, are the oldest existing federal passenger lists...

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Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers Military Records

Examine the only official memorial to the Union dead ever published — the most comprehensive source of information on Civil War fatalities available. Within these fully indexed images you'll find service information on approximately 236,000 Union soldiers.

The original publications were created to memorialize "those heroes who have given up their lives on the altar of their country, in defense of the American Union," and to aid friends, relatives, and other survivors in locating soldiers' final resting places...

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