"... the best book ever written on American genealogy, it is the text of choice in colleges and universities or wherever courses in American genealogy are taught. ... includes a new chapter on the property rights of women, a revised chapter on the evaluation of genealogical evidence, and updated information on the 1920 census. ... incorporates the latest thinking on genealogy and computers, specifically the relationship between computer technology...

Comprehensive guide to doing genealogical research in United States records.

"Designed to help recover the multigenerational facts of your ancestry, this book is an expansive guide to the most useful resources in each of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia. Conducting research at a distance from the places one's ancestors lived can be quite a challenge. There still is no substitute for on-site research because not everything is, or probably ever will be, on microfilm, in print, or available through interlibrary...