Everyone tracing a family's history faces a dilemma. We strive to reconstruct relationships and lives of people we cannot see, but if we cannot see them, how do

This textbook teaches the principles of genealogical documentation. There are exercises at the end of each chapter with answers at the back of the book.

Explains in easy-to-understand language the Genealogical Proof Standard, accepted in the genealogical field for building a solid case when there is conflicting

Family historians depend upon thousands of people unknown to them. They exchange research with others; copy information from books and databases; and write libr