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Title:

Discovering your roots [videorecording] : an introduction to genealogy / with John Philip Colletta, presenter.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

Teaching Company,

Copyright Date:

c2014

Description:

3 video discs (450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (iv, 129 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm).

Subject:

United States--Sources.--Sources.
Genealogy.
United States--Archival resources.--Archival resources.
Ships--United States--Passenger lists.

Other Authors:

Colletta, John Philip, 1949-
Teaching Company.

Notes:

DVD.

Contents:

Interviewing kin and mining home sources -- Genealogy online--gems and junk -- The library--shelves full of family history -- Military service and homestead records -- How to build historical context -- Your ancestors in ship passenger lists -- Your ancestors in naturalization records -- The genealogical proof standard -- Your ancestors in the county courthouse -- Your ancestors in state records -- How to write biography -- Dos and don'ts of writing history -- Seaching in your ancestors' backyards -- Assembling an account of your discoveries -- Extending your family tree overseas.

Summary:

This course of 15 half-hour lectures presents different procedures for locating sources of ancestors' records in America.

Series:

The great courses : better living ; no. 9394

ISBN:

1629970743
9781629970745

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881501653

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

YYPC162 -- Mechanicsville Public Library (Mechanicsville)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)