The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook [Paperback]

Emily Croom (Author)

Book Description

Series: Unpuzzling Your Past | Publication Date: September 15, 1996

Genealogists - whether beginning or experien ced - will add to their success with this time-saver/researc h-planner/organizer. '

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If you're hooked on Emily Anne Croom's Unpuzzling Your Past, then it's time to get the workbook with its multitude of forms to keep you from recreating the wheel every step of the way. There are checklists to help you organize your research, guidance on census and military records, forms to speed the information gathering process, contact logs, and various organizational method prototypes to help you make sense of all the geographic, generational, and chronological family data you collect.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Betterway Books; 1St Edition edition (September 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155870423X
• ISBN-13: 978-1558704237
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,540 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > Education & Reference > Genealogy

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85 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete set of forms with good examples of how to complete., January 3, 1999

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This review is from: The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook (Paperback)

This book appears to be about 250 pages (un-numbered). It's complete with basic forms such as pedigree and family group sheets, but goes beyond with census extraction forms & check lists, Military Record checklists, research planning worksheets and contact logs. Croom's has included completed examples of these forms which make it easy to understand. Very helpful to new and intermediate users.

37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for Non-USA Research - Very Misleading Title, July 27, 2003

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Eileen Kortright "Mad Mare" (Herndon, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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I have to strongly disagree with the words "for all genealogists" in the book title. This is a great book if you are doing beginning or intermediate research in the United States. However, if the majority of your research is based anywhere else, it's not worth buying and it's definitely not "for all genealogists".

My research is almost solely based in the UK and this book has been totally useless to me. The following are examples:

Census forms: (years 1790-1920, 4-5 of each, totalling approximately 64 tear-out pages) are for the United States and do not bear any census dates or helpful information for the UK or any other county.

Military Records Check Lists: also for the United States and do not have any other country's information on them nor is there any information on how to find military records in other countries.

Deed index: ditto all the above.

While there is SOME helpful information in this book and a few worth-while pointers, you'd be better off purchasing a book that deals with your country of research or searching the web for freebie sites that have the appropriate forms on them.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Way to Get Your Genealogy Research Organized, March 23, 2010

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Emily Croom's Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook provides many forms for recording genealogical research. In addition, she gives examples of how to use the forms by filling them out herself to show what information should be noted and how to write it down so that you can refer back to it and not wonder what your notes mean. There are many sources of genealogical research information, but Emily does a splendid job of covering all the important topics. And the forms can be duplicated whenever new copies of them are needed. She has very thoughtfully organized her forms so that a person following her research suggestions will have, after any length of time, a great resource for turning the completed forms into a written family history. I wish that I had a copy of this book at the very beginning of my research.