How To Trace Your Roots is divided into easily digestible sections. Each section has further readings and a bibliography to help the reader go beyond the scope of this beginning text.
It explains the value of cemetery listings, diaries, and family letters. The beginner learns about museums and historical societies, wills, genealogical societies. There is a section on publishing your findings. It explains how to handle photographs in this section and how to work with printers.
The last section discusses a family newsletter as a method of gaining information from relatives to add to the research. Table of contents, bibliography, illustrated.
The beginning family historian will refer to HOW TO TRACE YOUR ROOTS again and again. A basic reference work.
