A genealogist's guide to discovering your immigrant & ethnic ancestors : how to find and record your unique heritage / Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.
Offers advice on collecting oral histories, understanding historical trends and the impact of ethnicity, locating and interpreting immigration records, and creating a family history narrative.
Record details
- ISBN: 1558705244
- ISBN: 9781558705241
- Physical Description: 260 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 28 cm
- Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Betterway Books, 2000.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Getting Your Genealogical Research Started -- Enjoying the Journey -- Starting Your Ethnic and Immigrant Research -- Historical Trends That May Affect Your Research -- Published Sources -- Computer Databases -- Researching in Records -- Naturalization, Immigration, and Emigration Records -- Starting Foreign Research -- Major Ethnic Groups in America: Historical Overviews -- Exploring Your Heritage -- African Americans -- American Indians -- Asians -- Chinese -- Japanese -- Canadians -- Czechs and Slovaks -- Dutch -- English -- Puritans of New England -- Anglican Planters and Indentured Servants to the Chesapeake -- Quakers to New England and the Middle Colonies -- Later English Arrivals -- British Canadians -- French -- French Huguenots -- French Louisianians -- French Canadians -- Alsatians and Lorrainians -- Germanic Peoples -- Germans From Imperial Germany -- Austrians -- Luxembourgers -- Swiss -- Germans From Russia -- German Jews and Poles From Germany -- Greeks -- Hungarians -- Irish -- Italians -- Jews -- German Jews -- Eastern European Jews -- Poles -- Portuguese -- Russians -- Scandinavians -- Swedes -- Norwegians -- Danes -- Finns -- Icelanders -- Scots and Scotch-Irish -- Spanish-Speaking Peoples -- Spanish -- Mexican Americans -- Puerto Ricans -- Cubans -- Welsh and Cornish -- Leaving a Legacy -- Writing Your Ethnic/Immigrant Family History -- Ethnic Archives and Libraries in the United States.
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 929.1 CAR (Text) | 36015000040051 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | R GEN 929.1 C (Text) | 34208202923271 | Adult Reference | Available | - |
| Cleveland County Main Library | NC 929.107207 CAR (Text) | 22281500340673 | North Carolina Room | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | R-GEN 929.1072 C (Text) | 31781038915862 | Local History Reference | Available | - |
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| Madison-Mayodan Public Library | 929.1 C (Text) | 31554006478944 | Genealogy | Reserves | - |
| Morganton Public Library | RNC 929 Carmack (Text) | 33557001807833 | Local History Reference | Available | - |
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Offers advice on collecting oral histories, understanding historical trends and the impact of ethnicity, locating and interpreting immigration records, and creating a family history narrative.
