Better Than Sliced Bread:
Genealogy and Technology

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Table of Contents

SECTION 1: GENEALOGY BASICS

Research on the Road: Long Live Local Libraries
Janet Brigham Rands

Locating Hard-to-Find Places in the United States
Lesly Klippel

Verifying Earlier Research
Lesly Klippel

Setting Family Records Straight
Mary Lou Harline

How Should You Record a Place?
Allin Kingsbury

Tracing Ancestors Who Lived Before U.S. Independence
Lesly Klippel

Guardianship, Apprenticeship, Adoptions and Other Family Disruptions
Allin Kingsbury

The Homestead Act and the Westward Migration
Allin Kingsbury

Collecting Oral Family History
Allin Kingsbury

Timelines for Your Family History
Allin Kingsbury

Identifying Race: A Moveable Feast of Information
Janet Brigham Rands

SECTION 2: INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY

Be a Better Researcher and Help Others at the Same Time
Richard D. Rands

Search and Ye Shall Find
Janet Brigham Rands

Pfinding Phoebe: Search Engines In Family History Research
Janet Brigham Rands

Publishing Family History in a Day
Lesly Klippel

Google Earth: Ultimate Armchair Traveling
Janet Brigham Rands

Using eBay for Family History Research: Treasures versus Trash
Janet Brigham Rands

The Good, the Blog, and the Ugly
Richard and Janet Brigham Rands

Travels With Our Marvelous Toy
Janet Brigham Rands

Finding a New Best Friend -- in a Flash
Janet Brigham Rands

Podcasts: Joining the Revolution
Janet Brigham Rands

The Wild Word of Wiki
Janet Brigham Rands

Look-Up Volunteers on the Internet
Lesly Klippel

SECTION 3: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

How to Get Help When Your Software Gets Difficult
Richard D. Rands

PAF versus .paf: How to Distinguish Between a Program and a Database, and Why It Matters
Richard and Janet Brigham Rands

Fixing Your Genealogy Database
Allin Kingsbury

SECTION 4: FAMILIES LOST AND FOUND

Telling the Truth in Life Stories
Robert Russell Langman

Family Gatherings: Sharing More than the Macaroni
Janet Brigham Rands

Finding My Family in France
Richard Grialou

Illegitimacy In England
Lesly Klippel

Illegitimacy in Germany
Lesly Klippel

Finding -- and Documenting -- Oprah's Roots
Janet Brigham Rands

The Ancestry of the Persistent Wisteria
Janet Brigham Rands

INDEX


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