| Author | Wolfman, Ira.
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| Title | Climbing your family tree : online and offline genealogy for kids : the official Ellis Island handbook / by Ira Wolfman ; foreword by Alex Haley ; illustrations by Michael Klein.
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| Published | New York : Workman Pub., 2002.
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| Description | xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 21 x 23 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-7611-2539-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 978-0-7611-2539-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| General Note | Rev. ed. of: Do people grow on family trees? c1991.
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| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-216) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Foreword / Cyndi Howells -- Introduction / Alex Haley -- Ancestor detectors at work -- Getting started -- Let's talk about...us! -- What's your name? -- How we got here -- Becoming an American -- Great record hunt -- Catching your ancestors with a net -- Where the records are -- "My story's a little different" -- Getting connected -- Appendix -- Dictionary of American last names -- Correspondence log -- Abstract of Citizenship papers -- Freedom of information/privacy act request form G-639 -- Further reading -- Index.
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| Summary Note | Summary: In the ten years since the publication of Do People Grow on Family Trees? (121,000 copies in print), the Internet has completely transformed genealogy, making family history the second most popular hobby in the U.S. after gardening and genealogy the second most searched for subject on the Web. Now completely revised, updated, retitled, and filled with detailed guidance on utilizing the Internet, Climbing Your Family Tree is the comprehensive, kid-friendly genealogical primer for the 21st century, and a dramatic story of how and why our ancestors undertook the arduous voyages of immigration to this nation. It teaches kids to track down important family documents, including ships' manifests, naturalization papers, and birth, marriage, and death certificates; create oral histories; make scrapbooks of photos, sayings, and legends; and compile a family tree. A full chapter is devoted to the online search, and relevant Internet information has been incorporated into all the other chapters. Also new are more kids' genealogical stories and a reworked, easier-to-use design, and supporting the book will be a Web site that will include record-keeping pages, links to sites in the book, and more.
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| Subjects | Genealogy -- Juvenile literature.
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| Other Authors | Klein, Michael, 1960 Nov. 6-
Wolfman, Ira. Do people grow on family trees?
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| Electronic Res. | Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2002016797-d.html |
| LC Card Number | 2002-16797 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: CS 15.5 W859
mq234386: LC class, open stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
mq240950 c.2: LC class, open stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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