The author tells about Eunice Chapman's abusive husband left with their three children to join a group of Shakers in 1814, she was determined to win her children back. The book chronicles her struggles and brings the era's history, law, religion and politics to life.

            This reference outlines the education resources available from 1765 to the early 20th century, not only for genealogists, but also for historians with an interest in educational records. Many historical resources are currently being digitized, and Ontario educational collections are no exception.

            Family History takes you on a journey of finding the social history surrounding ancestors. The author encourages you to research houses, streets, communities and ways of life. Although the book focuses on the British Isles research its guidance holds no matter where your ancestors are from.

            Among those the transcontinental railroad brought to American West was a new kind of traveler. the transient worker. The author tells this story and shows you a little-known but vital part of Western culture and its agricultural economy.

            Using the clues in this book you'll learn interesting facts about your ancestors by studying their photos and the hats they wore for portraits. By analyzing the styles in each decade you can determine more about the lives of your relatives. Were they rich or poor? What season was it ? Was their hat the current fashion or an old favorite?

            This book is a beginners guide and handbook to Italian research. It was written for an American audience. There are full sample documents, pictures, maps, and tables. It is well organized for the genealogist.

            With an appendix comprising a short grammar of the English language foreign words and phrases: Christian names and other information.

            A selection of scholarly essays reflecting various aspects of our past and that of neighboring European countries.

            The author is known for groundbreaking research on genograms. In this book she shows how these "psychological family trees" can reveal a family history of estrangement, alliance, divorce or suicide, as well as complex issues of birth order, sibling rivalry and more.

            The author provides a step-by-step guidance to the standard Revolutionary War sources such as pension records, compiled service records, and records of lineage societies, explaining how they can be used and where they can be found.

            This book covers three normally stigmatized aspects of people's lives in the social, cultural, and economic upheaval of the Civil War. The author draws upon genealogical resources, including insane asylum records, divorces, petitions and bankruptcy filings.

            Whether you are just getting started or a veteran of your family History research - you may find this book helpful. It includes Surname research, maps, county level data, websites and contact information and a bibliography and much more...

            Family History is a topic that fascinates many, but the academic nature and involved research methods can make a genealogy an intimidating bobby to pursue.This book helps readers learn how to start their research with sources in their own homes -journals, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia.

            The author has updated this book explains how a tool of family history- gathering the genogram, or basic family tree - can help us to better understand and mend family relationships and dynamics. She elaborates on the ways in which genograms can reveal a family's estrangement, alliance, divorce or suicide, exposing intergenerational patterns that prove more than coincidental.

            This is the first novel in the Clifton Chronicles. It begins in 1920 when Harry Clifton seeks the truth about his father's death, only to wonder if another man is actually his father. (Fiction)

            This book describes the great migration movements from the 18th century all the way to the present. It traces the reasons for the migration; accompanies the emigrants on their long journey to their destinations in America. Africa, Australia, and New Zealand; and describes their living conditions abroad.

            This is a recollection by the author of her great-grandmother about two neighboring farm wives in the upper Midwest during the early 1900's. The author shifts points of view between the women to reveal their lives, resilience and sacrifices.