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Amazon.com Books: German genealogy
 The latest book in our highly successful 'Discovering Your Ancestors' series, this hands-on guide addresses virtually every aspect of tracing Germanic lineage. Written for beginners, Anderson and Thode cover the basics of genealogy, clearly explaining how to plan, organize and begin searching. They also discuss the unique challenges associated with Germanic ancestral research and offer proven ways to overcome them-including how to locate and interpret vital and emigration records. In addition, this guide provides a history of Germanic countries and their changing boundaries to help researchers find their villages of origin and determine the events that led their ancestors to emigrate. From naturalization to name changes, actual case studies of both typical and atypical Germanic genealogies demonstrate how to 'solve' a research mystery, and comprehensive listings of Germanic archives, research forms, letter-writing examples and maps will save genealogists hours of additional work.Author: Chris Anderson Company: Betterway Books (1999-08) ISBN: 1558705201 List Price: $18.99 Amazon Price: $85.99 Used Price: $9.28  Starting with the first German settlers in 1683, then working through the various emigration waves all the way up to the farmers and small tradesmen from southwestern and central Germany who came to America in chain migrations in the mid-nineteenth century, and German speakers who came from outside Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Thode's German Genealogy Research provides all the basic instruction you need, focusing on key record sources and materials for further reference and finishing with a listing of major online sources. With information on ships' passenger lists, surnames and given names, places of origin, and vital records, as well as citations to the best books and online sources, you ll have the key elements of a research strategy right at your fingertips Author: Ernest Thode Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2011-05-23) ISBN: 0806318856 List Price: $7.95 Amazon Price: $7.95 Used Price: $15.12  This is an important collection of essays, many of them very original and outstanding, that will further the field of history of sexuality in general and will contribute to the German historiography in particular. Lutz Sauerteig, University of Durham This volume provides a thought provoking and thorough engagement with various aspects of Foucault's writing, at once paying homage to core themes in the history of German sexuality and charting a course for future research...The organization, structure, and coherence of each section is very strong...Most intriguing is its blend of approaches and blurring of time, distance (the Atlantic divide in scholarship, that is), and disciplinarity. Jennifer Evans, Carleton University Michel Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality (1976-1984) has since its publication provided a context for the emergence of critical historical studies of sexuality. This collection reassesses the state of the historiography on sexuality-a field in which the German case has been traditionally central. In many diverse ways, the Foucauldian intervention has governed the formation of questions in the field as well as the assumptions about how some of these questions should be answered. It can be argued, however, that some of these revolutionary insights have ossified into dogmas or truisms within the field. Yet, as these contributions meticulously reveal, those very truisms, when revisited with a fresh eye, can lead to new, unexpected insights into the history of sexuality, necessitating a return to and reinterpretation of Foucault's richly complex work. This volume will be necessary reading for students of historical sexuality as well as for those readers in German history and German studies generally who have an interest in the history of sexuality. Scott Spector is Professor in the Department of History and Professor and Chair of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Helmut Puff is Professor in the Departments of History and Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dagmar Herzog is Distinguished Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  The new, third edition of In Search of Your German Roots is designed to help you trace your German ancestry in all the German-speaking areas of Europe, from the Baltic to the Crimea, from Czechoslovakia to Belgium. The unification of Germany in 1990 resulted in the absorption of the area formerly known as East Germany, or the D.D.R., into the political structure of West Germany, its states, provinces, districts, towns, even churches, now conforming to a national system of organization. Of immediate concern to the genealogist is that changes in local government in "East" Germany have resulted in various innovations in record-keeping practices, in changes in the actual location of some records and record offices, and in the restructuring of old institutions. In addition, in July 1993, every postal address in Germany was changed with the introduction of the new 5-digit postal code system. For research purposes it is essential that the genealogist be current with all of these changes, and therefore Angus Baxter has updated his classic text In Search of Your German Roots, presenting for the first time a manual for genealogical research in a united Germany! And not only does this updated edition reflect changes brought about by unification and changes in the postal codes; the entire work has been revised and updated, and it is now the most current and comprehensive guide to German roots available!Author: Angus Baxter Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2009-05-28) ISBN: 0806317841 List Price: $19.00 Amazon Price: $17.88 Used Price: $23.10  Finding Your German Ancestors is a brief but thorough introduction to German research. It presents the most up-to-date sources and resources for successful German research. Many German archives are accessible via the Internet, and Finding Your German Ancestors is the first reference work to include these vital contacts. And because identifying documents is key to German research, it contains sample illustrations of typical German documents, as well as contact sample information for major repositories of German records. With its straightforward approach and easy-to-read style, this book is sure to become a standard reference work for beginning German researchers. Author: Kevan M Hansen Company: Ancestry.com (1999-09) ISBN: 0916489833 List Price: $9.95 Amazon Price: $3.90 Used Price: $2.75  Have you ever wondered what life was like for your German ancestors? Have you ever tried to find a book on everyday village life? If so, you've probably already figured out that there aren't any books out there on the topic! But now, you can learn all about German village life in a book that is filled with information, but fun to read. "Our Daily Bread" uses a fictitious family, the Mann's, to explain the major historical events and the everyday customs in German villages between the years 1500 and 1850. Read chapters on wars, religion, community structure, courtship and marriage, inheritance, family life, and emigration. Recommended for anyone who is curious about who their German ancestors really were, or anyone who would simply like to know more about German history and culture.Author: Teva J Scheer Company: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2010-09-28) ISBN: 145372169X List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $15.29 Used Price: $15.18  On the Genealogy of Morality contains some of Nietzsche's most disturbing ideas and images: eg the 'slave revolt' in morality, which he claims began with the Jews and has now triumphed, and the 'blond beast' that must erupt, which he claims to find behind all civilisation. It is therefore a major source for understanding why 'Nietzschean' ideas are controversial. Further, it is one of Nietzsche's most important books, a work of his maturity that shows him at the height of his powers both as a thinker and as an artist in the presentation of ideas.Author: Alan J. Swensen Company: Hackett Pub Co (1998-09-01) ISBN: 0872202836 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $6.00 Used Price: $1.83  This book is designed for the family researcher who has little or no knowledge of German but who nevertheless needs to make a translation of German-language documents. The dictionary covers thousands of German terms and defines them in single words or brief phrases. All words, symbols, and abbreviations in the dictionary were chosen on the basis of their association with genealogy, having been noted in church records, civil registration records, family correspondence, genealogical journals, ships' passenger lists, and emigration records. Among the many categories of entries included in the dictionary are family relationships, days of the week, map terms, legal terms, cardinal and ordinary numbers, roman numerals, signs of the zodiac, coins, liquid and dry measures, measures of length, place names, historical territories, geographical terms, occupations, titles, military ranks, types of taxes, illnesses, calendar days, male and female given names, heraldry, abbreviations, books of the Bible, and common genealogical words from Danish, Dutch, French, Latin, and Polish. In conjunction with a standard German-English dictionary, the user of this work should be able to make a word-by-word translation of any German document and understand it.Author: Ernest Thode Company: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. (2008-01-05) ISBN: 0806313420 List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $36.41 Used Price: $30.95  The story of the Pennsylvania Germans; embracing an account of their origin, their history, and their dialect (1898)Author: William Beidelman (2013-04-24) (2013-04-24)  "... this is a well-written and rich resource". -- School Library Journal review of A Student's Guide to British American GenealogyThis groundbreaking series is the first to explain the "how-to's" of genealogical research in simple, jargon-free language. The Oryx American Family Tree Series explores how to research family history for 12 different ethnic groups. Each volume begins with an overview of the group's historical and cultural background, then guides readers through each step in tracing their own genealogical heritage, with practical advice on how to Each volume is written in a friendly, narrative style and is extensively illustrated with full-color and black-and-white photographs. Hundreds of valuable resources unique to each ethnic group are also listed and annotated, including genealogical organizations, books, magazines, journals, videos, and special libraries and archives. The Oryx American Family Tree Series provides an easy-to-follow road map for anyone interested in tracing a family history -- from junior high and high school students to adults who require a basic primer. Every library will want to make this practical, highly readable series available to its patrons. Each volume is produced as a sturdy 6 x 9 casebound publication, 192 pages, and printed on acid-free paper. Amazon.com Books: British genealogy
 This book presents the results of more than 25 years of research on killer whales in Washington State and British Columbia. Intended for both whale watchers and researchers, this updated edition of the book first published in 1996 contains the latest information about killer whale natural history. It includes over 300 photographs of resident killer whales as well as a genealogical registry that enables readers to identify individual killer whales and their family groups. A special section includes suggestions for whale watchers.Author: Kenneth C., III Balcomb Company: University of Washington Press (2000-06-15) ISBN: 0295979585 List Price: $22.50 Amazon Price: $99.99 Used Price: $91.99  A fully illustrated and informative look at each of the royal houses in Great Britainfrom Anglo-Saxon monarchs through to today’s royal family, the House of Windsor. Each highly detailed family tree demonstrates the connections between each King and Queen and their royal ancestors, and an explanation of the order of succession provides a valuable insight into the historic passing of the crown. Author: Dulcie M. Ashdown Company: Pitkin (1999-02-01) ISBN: 0853729387 List Price: $8.95 Amazon Price: $3.46 Used Price: $0.01  Authoritative, entertaining, and informative, this reader-friendly reference explains how to get beyond the standard births, marriages, deaths, and census search and dig deeper into genealogy A comprehensive guide to tracing Scottish family history, this book is designed to exploit the rich resources that the country with possibly the most complete and best-kept set of records and other documents in the world has to offer. Using worked examples and addressing the questions of DNA, palaeography, and the often confusing issues of clans, families, and tartans, Bruce Durie covers both physical and electronic sources, reminding the reader that there are more routes to follow than just the internet, and that not everything written down is correct. Comparisons are made with records elsewhere, and all of the 28 million people throughout the world who claim Scottish ancestry will find something here to help, challenge, and stimulate. Complete with templates and methods which will enable family historians everywhere to exploit the resources available, this is the definitive reader-friendly guide to genealogy and family history in Scotland. Author: Bruce Durie Company: The History Press (2012-05-01) ISBN: 0752463721 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $15.41 Used Price: $13.97  'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot, daughter of a Wapping shoemaker, who is said to have borne him three children. Documents relating to the alleged marriage, bearing the Prince's signature, were impounded and examined in 1866 by the Attorney General. Learned opinion at the time leaned to the view that these documents were genuine. They were then placed in the Royal Archives at Windsor; in 1910, permission was refused a would-be author who asked to see them. If George III did make such a marriage when he was Prince of Wales, before the passing of the Royal Marriages Act in 1772, then his subsequent marriage to Queen Charlotte was bigamous, and every monarch of Britain since has been a usurper, the rightful heirs of George III being his children by Hannah Lightfoot, if they ever existed.' From Britain's Royal Families Britain's Royal Families is a unique reference book. It provides, for the first time in one volume, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain - from 800AD to the present. Here is the vital biographical information relating not only to each monarch, but also to every member of their immediate family, from parents to grandchildren. Drawing on countless authorities, both ancient and modern, Alison Weir explores the royal family tree in unprecedented depth and provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today's royal family.Author: Alison Weir Company: Vintage Digital (2011-04-18) (2011-04-18) List Price: $16.29  In every field of study there is one book that rises above the rest in stature and authority and becomes the standard work in the field. In genealogy that book is Val Greenwood's Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. Arguably the best book ever written on American genealogy, it is the text of choice in colleges and universities or wherever courses in American genealogy are taught. Of the dozens of textbooks, manuals, and how-to books that have appeared over the past twenty-five years, it is the one book that is consistently praised for setting a standard of excellence. The Researcher's Guide has become a classic. While it instructs the researcher in the timeless principles of genealogical research, it also identifies the various classes of records employed in that research, groups them in convenient tables and charts, gives their location, explains their uses, and evaluates each of them in the context of the research process. Designed to answer practically all the researcher's needs, it is both a textbook and an all-purpose reference book. And it is this singular combination that makes The Researcher's Guide the book of choice in any genealogical investigation. It is also the reason why if you can afford to buy only one book on American genealogy in a lifetime, this has to be it. This new 3rd edition incorporates the latest thinking on genealogy and computers, specifically the relationship between computer technology (the Internet and CD-ROM) and the timeless principles of good genealogical research. It also includes a new chapter on the property rights of women, a revised chapter on the evaluation of genealogical evidence, and updated information on the 1920 census. Little else has changed, or needs to be changed, because the basics of genealogy remain timeless and immutable. This 3rd edition of The Researcher's Guide, then, is a clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date account of the methods and aims of American genealogy--an essential text for the present generation of researchers--and no sound genealogical project is complete without it.Author: Val D. Greenwood Company: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. (2000) ISBN: 0806316217 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $31.36 Used Price: $15.23  More than 20 percent of Americans are of Irish or British descent and W. Daniel Quillen offers special advice just for these do-it-yourself genealogists.More than 63 million Americans claim Irish or British ancestry. And many of those millions are searching for their ancestral roots. Most won’t be able to trace back many generations before they have to “leap across the pond” in search of their ancestors, and Volume V in Quillen’s Essentials of Genealogy helps budding genealogists do just that.
Topics addressed in the book include:
· Where to find Irish and British records · How to access these records · How to use the Internet to help you in your search · Necessary preparations for a trip abroad to do research in these countries · Pitfalls and issues in obtaining such records · Research tips specifically geared for England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
New to this edition: more in-depth treatment of tracing your Scottish ancestors.  his is the second edition of the book that has been called the Bible of British genealogy. Originally published in 1997 in association with the Society of Genealogists (London), and now revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, Ancestral Trails enables the researcher to form a coherent picture of past generations by describing virtually every class of record in every repository and library in Britain. The early chapters help beginners take their first steps by dealing with such matters as obtaining information from living relatives, drawing family trees, and starting research in the records of birth, marriage, and death, or in census records. Later chapters guide researchers to the records that are more difficult to find and use, such as wills, parish records, civil and ecclesiastical court records, poll books, and property records. So the book is ideal for the beginner and the experienced researcher alike, and will enable those who are persistent enough to trace their ancestry back to the Middle Ages.Author: Mark D. Herber Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2006-01-01) ISBN: 080631771X List Price: $54.50 Amazon Price: $47.73 Used Price: $47.73  Author: Michael A. Bigg Company: Phantom Press (1987) ISBN: 0920883001 Amazon Price: $150.00 Used Price: $7.98  Whether you conduct your research in person or by mail, this celebrated manual--now in its Fourth Edition--will guide you in finding your ancestors in Britain or Ireland. Noted genealogist Angus Baxter provides detailed instructions for locating records abroad and shows how easy it is to do it by mail--or on a vacation trip! He begins with step-by-step instructions on drawing up a family tree, and explains how to use sources close at hand. The search continues by correspondence with family history societies, record offices, and other organizations listed here, before concluding with a possible--but not essential--trip to the source, Britain or Ireland. The new Fourth Edition of this classic work includes discussions of the following topics: * The transfer of important genealogical records from Chancery Lane and St. Catherine's House to the new Family Records Centre in London--most notably, civil registration records, census returns, and records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury * The 1986, 1996, and 1998 reorganization of counties in England and Wales and the latest information on where to find local records. Where available, URLs are given for county record offices (CROs), as well as for major repositories. Phone and fax numbers, if available, are also given for CROs and other archives * The British Library transfer of many of its collections from the Great Russell Street location (inside the British Museum) to a new facility at St. Pancras, London * The establishment of the Irish Genealogical Project * The 1998 amalgamation of the Public Record Office and State Paper Office into the National Archives of Ireland In the end, Baxter demonstrates how the threads of fact can be woven into a rich and detailed family history, the ultimate goal of every searcher determined to find his family roots.Author: Angus Baxter Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2000-01) ISBN: 080631611X List Price: $22.00 Amazon Price: $14.48 Used Price: $2.79  More than 20 percent of Americans are of Irish or British descent and W. Daniel Quillen offers special advice just for these do-it-yourself genealogists.More than 63 million Americans claim Irish or British ancestry. And many of those millions are searching for their ancestral roots. Most won’t be able to trace back many generations before they have to “leap across the pond” in search of their ancestors, and Volume V in Quillen’s Essentials of Genealogy helps budding genealogists do just that. Topics addressed in the book include: · Where to find Irish and British records · How to access these records · How to use the Internet to help you in your search · Necessary preparations for a trip abroad to do research in these countries · Pitfalls and issues in obtaining such records · Research tips specifically geared for England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Amazon.com Books: Canadian genealogy
 Trace your family tree and discover your roots Fully updated and revised, this bestselling genealogy guide helps you tap into the wealth of global ancestry records and offers proven strategies for both traditional and electronic research. How to Do Everything: Genealogy, Second Edition explores basic rules of genealogical evidence, evaluation of source materials, research methods, and successful techniques for web-based research. You'll get new information on DNA-based records, social networking sites, blogs, podcasts, the latest hardware and software, and much more. Set up and organize your family tree Place your ancestors into context and locate essential records of their lives Trace census, immigration, church, cemetery, military, and property records in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Locate and access document repositories, such as libraries and archives and their online catalogs Conduct effective Internet research Get past brick walls and dead ends in your research Research and verify your ancestors using genetic genealogy (DNA) Plan a very successful research trip Determine the best technology for your research, including portable devices and databases Share your findings with family members and collaborate with other researchers Author: George G. Morgan Company: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media (2009-04-09) ISBN: 0071625348 List Price: $24.99 Amazon Price: $29.95 Used Price: $1.51  A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian ancestors. Author: Beverly Ploenske Labelle Company: Ancestry Publishing (2002-01-01) ISBN: 1931279012 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $25.17 Used Price: $19.95  The Helms have put together an excellent introductory guide to doing genealogical research online. They've avoided the usual trap of organizing their book by resources, which may be easy for the author but makes it harder on the user. So instead of devoting this chapter to useful Web sites, that chapter to valuable newsgroups, and so forth, they've organized the book in a way closer to the way you'd organize good family research. They begin with a series of chapters on preparation, including doing initial groundwork, developing a plan, picking the names to begin researching, and locating ancestors geographically. Next, they deal with the means for finding valuable records and then delve into getting the most from your resources. Chapter 8, for example, discusses organizing and presenting your findings, while chapter 9 deals with cooperating with other researchers so that you can all be more effective (and probably make some new friends in the bargain). As is always the case with a Dummies series book, the Helms present a "Part of Tens" section, in this case four chapters each covering 10 top online genealogical sites, tips for designing your genealogical Web page, sites for beginners, and general tips for "smooth sailing." An enclosed CD-ROM contains nine genealogy programs plus a wide assortment of Internet tools and utilities. --Elizabeth Lewis  The first book to examine the various parliamentary maces, rods, badges, and chains of office used throughout Canada, Canadian Symbols of Authority details how these devices are used at every level of government, emphasizing how, like the Crown itself, they embody continuity in an ever-changing world. Symbols of authority are not only emblems of democracy and authority but they are part of the diverse heraldic and artistic heritage of Canada. Despite Canada's rich symbolic and ceremonial heritage, little has been written about the nations various symbols of authority or the offices that are associated with them. From the Great Maces of the Senate and House of Commons to the Chancellors Chain of the Order of Canada and Baton of the Chief Herald, the development of Canada's symbols of authority encompasses the past 250 years of Canadian history. Richly illustrated, this book is the most comprehensive study yet undertaken of the origins, history, and development of parliamentary maces. Author: Christopher McCreery Company: Dundurn (2011-06-14) (2011-06-14) ISBN: 1554889014 List Price: $60.00 Amazon Price: $22.09 Used Price: $22.08  Author: Gerard Lebel Company: Lisi Pr (1984-06) ISBN: 0914163027 List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $185.10 Used Price: $19.49  French-Canadian genealogical research has never been so easy. In just four pages, Denise R. Larson, author of the best-selling Companions of Champlain: Founding Families of Quebec,1608-1635, lays out the basic elements of French-Canadian research, boiling the subject down to its essence and allowing you to grasp the fundamentals of French-Canadian research at a glance.In keeping with the Genealogy at a Glance theme, the four specially laminated pages of this work are designed to give you as much useful information in the space allotted as you ll ever need. Focusing on key record sources and materials for further reference, Larson first provides history and context, then deals with the unique aspects of French-Canadian research such as Acadia and Quebec before moving on to traditional record sources, finishing with a summing up of record repositories and online sources. In less than a handful of pages she provides all the basic instruction you need in order to begin and to proceed successfully with your research. Author: Denise R. Larson Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2010-12-10) ISBN: 0806318740 List Price: $7.95 Amazon Price: $7.95 Used Price: $58.61  In Finding Your Canadian Ancestors, authors Sherry Irvine and Dave Obee guide you through Canadian genealogical records, first by record type and then according to province. The authors detail both government and ecclesiastical records, as well as records related to special groups such as Aboriginals, Acadians, and Loyalists. They give special attention to online resources, including the extensive holdings of Library and Archives of Canada. Author: Dave Obee Company: Ancestry.com (2007-10-01) ISBN: 1593313160 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $10.30 Used Price: $9.24  Discover the best free websites to start your Canadian family history research. Learn where to find the records to get started, and information for researching in each of the provinces and territories.Author: Kathryn Lake Hogan Company: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2012-03-14) ISBN: 1475033443 List Price: $7.95 Amazon Price: $7.16  Author: Marc Picard Company: Clearfield (2013-04-15) ISBN: 0806356456 List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: $17.73 Used Price: $44.70  Genealogy of the following ancestors: Audet dit Lapointe, Berube, Blais, Blanchet, Couture, Deblois, Dionne, Fortin dit Bellefontaine, Gagnon, Lacasse, Lavergne, LeRoy, Lessard, Levesque, Paquin, Paradis, Pilote, Pothier, Rheaume, Rondeau, Savard, Trudeau, Vachon, Veilleux and many more surnames of French-Canadian descent. Has illustrations (drawings) of maps, scenery, and people. Bibliographies and individuals' personal lives take the reader on a personal journey with the them. In Appendix A, M. Laforest compiles a glossary of french words and terms found in French-Canadian genealogy and transcribes the meaning in english. Appendix F is A Comparative Table. This shows the Ancestor, His Province of Origin, His Occupation, His Wife, Her Province of Origin, and Their Date of Marriage. The last two pages are for your own history for future generations.Author: Gerard Lebel Company: Lisi Press (1983-06) ISBN: 0914163019 List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $203.76 Used Price: $16.65 Amazon.com Books: French genealogy
Author: Marc Picard Company: Clearfield (2013-04-15) ISBN: 0806356456 List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: $17.73 Used Price: $44.70
We start with a couple of interesting facts: 8.3 million Americans (3% of the total population) claimed French ancestry in the 2000 U.S. census, and 2.4 million Americans (0.9% of the population) claimed French-Canadian ancestry. Thus, with over 10 million Americans of French origin, this research guide was almost inevitable, and in true Genealogy at a Glance fashion, it lays out the basic elements of French research in just four pages, boiling the subject down to its essence and allowing you to grasp the fundamentals of French genealogical research at a glance.
Author: Bettag Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2012-03-01) ISBN: 0806318899 List Price: $8.95 Amazon Price: $8.06 A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian ancestors. Author: Beverly Ploenske Labelle Company: Ancestry Publishing (2002-01-01) ISBN: 1931279012 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $25.17 Used Price: $19.95  Slave Genealogy of the Roulhac Family: French Masters and the Africans They Enslaved By Roy L. Roulhac In Slave Genealogy of the Roulhac Family: French Masters and the Africans They Enslaved, Roy L. Roulhac, a fifth-generation descendant of colonial North Carolina and territorial Florida slaves, shares his well-documented journey through 18th and 19th century wills, probate records, bills of sales and other primary and secondary sources of his ancestors’ enslavers to find and connect missing pieces of not only his family’s past, but also the past of all African descended Roulhacs. Readers discover how three French Roulhac brothers – members of the French aristocracy – upon arriving in America during the last quarter of the 18th century seeking to capitalize on trade with the colonists, maintained their privileged status by both marrying into affluent and influential families who accumulated their wealth from slave labor, and then themselves becoming slave owners and speculators - driving slaves like cattle from North Carolina to Mississippi. Roy L. Roulhac places front and center the vigilance and self-determination of Roulhac slaves who did not idly accept what most during their time concluded as their fate of oppression but played a significant role in the own liberation. Inspired by the Gabriel Prosser revolt in nearby Virginia, some were implicated in the 1802 Bertie County North Carolina slave conspiracy, others escaped slavery to fight and die for their own freedom and that of 4 million other oppressed Africans during the Civil War. Slave Genealogy details how former Roulhac slaves and their descendants during their 150-year march to freedom after emancipation resisted de facto re-enslavement by migrating to Liberia, survived Jim Crow and segregation to become productive contributing members of society. Readers, whether Roulhacs, African Americans or any other ethnicity can easily reflect on their own heritage in this documentation of despair and triumph.Author: Roy L. Roulhac Company: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013-02-11) ISBN: 1478275847 List Price: $19.97 Used Price: $5,678.00 Author: Christian Denissen Company: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research (1987) ISBN: 0943112028 Used Price: $1,209.50 Genealogy of the following ancestors: Audet dit Lapointe, Berube, Blais, Blanchet, Couture, Deblois, Dionne, Fortin dit Bellefontaine, Gagnon, Lacasse, Lavergne, LeRoy, Lessard, Levesque, Paquin, Paradis, Pilote, Pothier, Rheaume, Rondeau, Savard, Trudeau, Vachon, Veilleux and many more surnames of French-Canadian descent. Has illustrations (drawings) of maps, scenery, and people. Bibliographies and individuals' personal lives take the reader on a personal journey with the them. In Appendix A, M. Laforest compiles a glossary of french words and terms found in French-Canadian genealogy and transcribes the meaning in english. Appendix F is A Comparative Table. This shows the Ancestor, His Province of Origin, His Occupation, His Wife, Her Province of Origin, and Their Date of Marriage. The last two pages are for your own history for future generations.Author: Gerard Lebel Company: Lisi Press (1983-06) ISBN: 0914163019 List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $203.76 Used Price: $16.65 French-Canadian genealogical research has never been so easy. In just four pages, Denise R. Larson, author of the best-selling Companions of Champlain: Founding Families of Quebec,1608-1635, lays out the basic elements of French-Canadian research, boiling the subject down to its essence and allowing you to grasp the fundamentals of French-Canadian research at a glance.In keeping with the Genealogy at a Glance theme, the four specially laminated pages of this work are designed to give you as much useful information in the space allotted as you ll ever need. Focusing on key record sources and materials for further reference, Larson first provides history and context, then deals with the unique aspects of French-Canadian research such as Acadia and Quebec before moving on to traditional record sources, finishing with a summing up of record repositories and online sources. In less than a handful of pages she provides all the basic instruction you need in order to begin and to proceed successfully with your research. Author: Denise R. Larson Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2010-12-10) ISBN: 0806318740 List Price: $7.95 Amazon Price: $7.95 Used Price: $58.61 Author: Gerard Lebel Company: Lisi Pr (1984-06) ISBN: 0914163027 List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $185.10 Used Price: $19.49 The Helms have put together an excellent introductory guide to doing genealogical research online. They've avoided the usual trap of organizing their book by resources, which may be easy for the author but makes it harder on the user. So instead of devoting this chapter to useful Web sites, that chapter to valuable newsgroups, and so forth, they've organized the book in a way closer to the way you'd organize good family research. They begin with a series of chapters on preparation, including doing initial groundwork, developing a plan, picking the names to begin researching, and locating ancestors geographically. Next, they deal with the means for finding valuable records and then delve into getting the most from your resources. Chapter 8, for example, discusses organizing and presenting your findings, while chapter 9 deals with cooperating with other researchers so that you can all be more effective (and probably make some new friends in the bargain). As is always the case with a Dummies series book, the Helms present a "Part of Tens" section, in this case four chapters each covering 10 top online genealogical sites, tips for designing your genealogical Web page, sites for beginners, and general tips for "smooth sailing." An enclosed CD-ROM contains nine genealogy programs plus a wide assortment of Internet tools and utilities. --Elizabeth Lewis Author: Christian Denissen Company: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research (1976) Amazon.com Books: American genealogy
 No scholarly reference library is complete without a copy of Ancestry's Red Book. In it, you will find both general and specific information essential to researchers of American records. This revised 3rd edition provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization. Whether you are looking for your ancestors in the northeastern states, the South, the West, or somewhere in the middle, "Ancestry's Red Book has information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide. In short, the "Red Book is simply the book that no genealogist can afford not to have. The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail. Unlike the federal census, state and territorial census were taken at different times and different questions were asked. Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how "Company: Ancestry Publishing (2004-06-01) ISBN: 1593311664 List Price: $59.95 Amazon Price: $34.45 Used Price: $22.54  Author: William Wade Hinshaw Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2011-10-23) ISBN: 0806316063 List Price: $95.00 Amazon Price: $85.50 Used Price: $89.98  Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West’s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West’s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B. Du Bois, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling. West’s "genealogy" is, ultimately, a very personal work, for it is imbued throughout with the author’s conviction that a thorough reexamination of American pragmatism may help inspire and instruct contemporary efforts to remake and reform American society and culture. "West . . . may well be the pre-eminent African American intellectual of our generation."—The Nation "The American Evasion of Philosophy is a highly intelligent and provocative book. Cornel West gives us illuminating readings of the political thought of Emerson and James; provides a penetrating critical assessment of Dewey, his central figure; and offers a brilliant interpretation—appreciative yet far from uncritical—of the contemporary philosopher and neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty. . . . What shines through, throughout the work, is West's firm commitment to a radical vision of a philosophic discourse as inextricably linked to cultural criticism and political engagement."—Paul S. Boyer, professor emeritus of history, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Wisconsin Project on American Writers Frank Lentricchia, General Editor Author: Cornel West Company: University of Wisconsin Press (1989-04-15) ISBN: 0299119645 List Price: $21.95 Amazon Price: $15.97 Used Price: $5.78  Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible." The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. "Company: Ancestry Publishing (2006-06-01) ISBN: 1593312776 List Price: $79.95 Amazon Price: $40.00 Used Price: $29.95  The quest for roots has been an enduring American preoccupation. Over the centuries, generations have sketched coats of arms, embroidered family trees, established local genealogical societies, and carefully filled in the blanks in their bibles, all in pursuit of self-knowledge and status through kinship ties. This long and varied history of Americans’ search for identity illuminates the story of America itself, according to François Weil, as fixations with social standing, racial purity, and national belonging gave way in the twentieth century to an embrace of diverse ethnicity and heritage.
Seeking out one’s ancestors was a genteel pursuit in the colonial era, when an aristocratic pedigree secured a place in the British Atlantic empire. Genealogy developed into a middle-class diversion in the young republic. But over the next century, knowledge of one’s family background came to represent a quasi-scientific defense of elite “Anglo-Saxons” in a nation transformed by immigration and the emancipation of slaves. By the mid-twentieth century, when a new enthusiasm for cultural diversity took hold, the practice of tracing one’s family tree had become thoroughly democratized and commercialized.
Today, Ancestry.com attracts over two million members with census records and ship manifests, while popular television shows depict celebrities exploring archives and submitting to DNA testing to learn the stories of their forebears. Further advances in genetics promise new insights as Americans continue their restless pursuit of past and place in an ever-changing world. Author: François Weil Company: Harvard University Press (2013-04-30) (2013-03-25) ISBN: 0674045831 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $17.08 Used Price: $16.44  Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. Now in her book, Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama: A Resource Guide, Frazine provides the information and guidance to help locate the resources available for researching African American records in archives, libraries, and county courthouses throughout the state. The idea for this guidebook rose out of her lecturing throughout the country and having noticed that reference guides on African American family history resources seemed to exist for every state except Alabama. This was regrettable not merely for researchers on African American history in Alabama. In fact, Alabama's records play an especially important role in U.S. family history research because of the migration patterns of Alabama's freedmen, first to urban areas of Alabama and then to northern cities, a trend that continued throughout the first part of the twentieth century.Author: Frazine Taylor Company: NewSouth Books (2008-10-01) ISBN: 1603060448 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $12.50 Used Price: $11.49  This provocative work reveals the origins and development of political theory as it is presently understood—and misunderstood. Tracing the evolution of the field from the nineteenth century to the present, John G. Gunnell shows how current controversies, like those over liberalism or the relationship of theory to practice, are actually the unresolved legacy of a forgotten past. By uncovering this past, Gunnell exposes the forces that animate and structure political theory today. Gunnell reconstructs the evolution of the field by locating it within the broader development of political science and American social science in general. During the behavioral revolution that swept political science in the 1950s, the relationship between political theory and political science changed dramatically, relegating theory to the margins of an increasingly empirical discipline. Gunnell demonstrates that the estrangement of political theory is rooted in a much older quarrel: the authority of knowledge versus political theory is rooted in a much older quarrel: the authority of knowledge versus political authority, academic versus public discourse. By disclosing the origin of this dispute, he opens the way for a clearer understanding of the basis and purpose of political theory. As critical as it is revelatory, this thoughtful book should be read by any one interested in the history of political theory or science—or in the relationship of social science to political practice in the United States. Author: John G. Gunnell Company: University Of Chicago Press (1993-12-01) ISBN: 0226310817 List Price: $27.50 Amazon Price: $20.77 Used Price: $4.78 In every field of study there is one book that rises above the rest in stature and authority and becomes the standard work in the field. In genealogy that book is Val Greenwood's Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. Arguably the best book ever written on American genealogy, it is the text of choice in colleges and universities or wherever courses in American genealogy are taught. Of the dozens of textbooks, manuals, and how-to books that have appeared over the past twenty-five years, it is the one book that is consistently praised for setting a standard of excellence. The Researcher's Guide has become a classic. While it instructs the researcher in the timeless principles of genealogical research, it also identifies the various classes of records employed in that research, groups them in convenient tables and charts, gives their location, explains their uses, and evaluates each of them in the context of the research process. Designed to answer practically all the researcher's needs, it is both a textbook and an all-purpose reference book. And it is this singular combination that makes The Researcher's Guide the book of choice in any genealogical investigation. It is also the reason why if you can afford to buy only one book on American genealogy in a lifetime, this has to be it. This new 3rd edition incorporates the latest thinking on genealogy and computers, specifically the relationship between computer technology (the Internet and CD-ROM) and the timeless principles of good genealogical research. It also includes a new chapter on the property rights of women, a revised chapter on the evaluation of genealogical evidence, and updated information on the 1920 census. Little else has changed, or needs to be changed, because the basics of genealogy remain timeless and immutable. This 3rd edition of The Researcher's Guide, then, is a clear, comprehensive, and up-to-date account of the methods and aims of American genealogy--an essential text for the present generation of researchers--and no sound genealogical project is complete without it.Author: Val D. Greenwood Company: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. (2000) ISBN: 0806316217 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $31.36 Used Price: $15.23  Unlock new records in your family history research by understanding the historic events of your ancestors' eras. This quick and convenient guide outlines the major political, military and social events in the United States from the colonial era through 1940. It also includes immigration trends and census dates to help you narrow your research focus and find genealogy records faster. Use The Genealogist's U.S. History Pocket Reference to find: Timelines, charts, quick lists and maps of major events. Popular foods, songs and books of each era. Timelines of wars and other military events. Dates for federal, state and special censuses. Immigration data including major ports and countries of origin. ...and so much more! Stash this indispensable book in your computer case, tote bag or, yes, your pocket, and take it with you wherever you research. Author: Nancy Hendrickson Company: Family Tree Books (2013-04-17) ISBN: 1440325278 List Price: $14.99 Amazon Price: $8.07 Used Price: $8.09  Author: James M. Rose Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2003-01-01) ISBN: 0806317353 List Price: $33.00 Amazon Price: $33.00 Used Price: $5.69 Amazon.com Books: Scandinavian genealogy
Author: John R Tunheim Company: s.n.] (1984)  Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland and outlines the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world.The book begins with an Introduction that helps put Scandinavian mythology in place in history, followed by a chapter that explains the meaning of mythic time, and a third section that presents in-depth explanations of each mythological term. These fascinating entries identify particular deities and giants, as well as the places where they dwell and the varied and wily means by which they forge their existence and battle one another. We meet Thor, one of the most powerful gods, who specializes in killing giants using a hammer made for him by dwarfs, not to mention myriad trolls, ogres, humans and strange animals. We learn of the ongoing struggle between the gods, who create the cosmos, and the jötnar, or giants, who aim to destroy it. In the enchanted world where this mythology takes place, we encounter turbulent rivers, majestic mountains, dense forests, storms, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon and snakes in a landscape closely resembling Scandinavia. Beings travel on ships and on horseback; they eat slaughtered meat and drink mead. Spanning from the inception of the universe and the birth of human beings to the universe's destruction and the mythic future, these sparkling tales of creation and destruction, death and rebirth, gods and heroes will entertain readers and offer insight into the relationship between Scandinavian myth, history, and culture. Author: John Lindow Company: Oxford University Press, USA (2002-10-17) ISBN: 0195153820 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $15.02 Used Price: $10.69
Finn A. Thomsen, Scandinavian Genealogical Research Manual, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, 1993, Spiral Binding, approx 200 Pages.
The Scandinavian Genealogical Research Manual combined information pertaining to Denmark and Norway that share a similar language. Previously published in three volumes, the works are now consolidated into one book. The book covers Danish and Norwegian Language, Handwriting and Resources.
Author: Finn A Thomsen Company: Thomsen's Genealogical Center (1993) Amazon Price: $52.00  British family names; their origin and meaning, with lists of Scandinavian, Frisian, Anglo-Saxon and Norman names. 256 Pages.Author: Henry Barber (2012-11-01) (2012-11-01)  "... this is a well-written and rich resource". -- School Library Journal review of A Student's Guide to British American GenealogyThis groundbreaking series is the first to explain the "how-to's" of genealogical research in simple, jargon-free language. The Oryx American Family Tree Series explores how to research family history for 12 different ethnic groups. Each volume begins with an overview of the group's historical and cultural background, then guides readers through each step in tracing their own genealogical heritage, with practical advice on how to Each volume is written in a friendly, narrative style and is extensively illustrated with full-color and black-and-white photographs. Hundreds of valuable resources unique to each ethnic group are also listed and annotated, including genealogical organizations, books, magazines, journals, videos, and special libraries and archives. The Oryx American Family Tree Series provides an easy-to-follow road map for anyone interested in tracing a family history -- from junior high and high school students to adults who require a basic primer. Every library will want to make this practical, highly readable series available to its patrons. Each volume is produced as a sturdy 6 x 9 casebound publication, 192 pages, and printed on acid-free paper. ![[ [ [ A Student's Guide to Scandinavian American Genealogy (Oryx American Family Tree) [ A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY (ORYX AMERICAN FAMILY TREE) BY Paddock, Lisa Olson ( Author ) May-15-1996[ A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY (ORYX AMERICAN FAMILY TREE) [ A STUDENT'S GUIDE TO SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY (ORYX AMERICAN FAMILY TREE) BY PADDOCK, LISA OLSON ( AUTHOR ) MAY-15-1996 ] By Paddock, Lisa Olson ( Author )May-15-1996 Hardcover](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41OwUALuTQL._SL160_.jpg) Author: Lisa Olson Paddock Company: Greenwood (1996-05-15)  Are you online and ready for global smart card and database genealogy for virtual travelers? Here’s how to search family history for nations bordering the Baltic Sea, the Balkans countries, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. The nations listed in this guide (all faiths) include Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Armenia, Assyria, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, and many other lands in the Middle East, the Balkans—Croatia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Eastern Europe—Hungary, and more. Collecting details about people is moving toward smart card technology and its offspring. The new wave in genealogy is authentication technology. Authentication begins with new-wave technology used to gather population registers. Compare the new technology to the old method of door-to-door census taking, tombstone tracings, and city directory publishing. No, genealogists are not using smart cards this year, but smart card technology is being used to compile population registers in Europe. The future holds a new wave of technology used for authentication for banking transactions being applied to other areas. Currently this technology is used for collecting details for population registrars such as census taking. The application for research is of interest to family historians, librarians, and governments. It’s already in use by private industry for electronic authentication. Family history is now about intelligent connections, whether it’s a population registrar, census detail, or electronic identity for banking. Smart card genealogy began in 1998 in Finland with governments seeking to put census and population registers in an electronic form that would be available to researchers, and these applications are going global. Author: Anne Hart Company: ASJA Press (2005-06-06) ISBN: 0595357733 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $12.67 Used Price: $9.46  This is a MUST for the genealogist researching his or her Scandinavian ancestors in the USA and Europe. Dr. Dickson has identified numerous sources of family records for each of the 5 distinct Nordic groups-the Danes, Finns, Icelanders, Norwegians and SweAuthor: Dr. Charles Dickson Company: Heritage Books Inc. (2009-05-01) ISBN: 0788418106 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $8.71 Used Price: $7.10  Are you looking for Winner, Reference Book of the Year, Midwest Book Awards Finalist, USA Best Books Award for Parenting/Family Reference
Author: Olav Veka Company: University of Wisconsin Press (2010-12-09) ISBN: 0299248348 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $16.63 Used Price: $16.35 Company: Upsaliae: Zeipel et Palmblad Reg. Acad. Typographi (1818) Used Price: $186.81 Amazon.com Books: Mexican genealogy
 Author: Gregorio Mora-Torres Company: University of North Texas Press (2005-03-05) ISBN: 1574411918 List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $23.00 Used Price: $10.06  The eleventh-generation Californian Jennifer Vo and the historian John P. Schmal have collaborated in the production of this multi-generational epic about a pioneer California family. In 1781, Luis Quintero, a poor, middle-aged African-Mexican tailor froAuthor: Jennifer Vo Company: Heritage Books Inc. (2004-01) ISBN: 0788424483 List Price: $20.00 Amazon Price: $16.55 Used Price: $14.28  This series of student research tools explains the process of genealogical research while creating opportunities to practice and integrate social studies skills. It aims to promote better student understanding of solid research techniques and enhances the American curriculum. The series supplements the thematic strands in the New Curriculum standards for social studies in American schools, such as: culture, time, continuity, and change; individual development and identity; power, authority, and governance; people, places, and environment; individuals, groups, and institutions; global connections. The series also aims to provide students with the opportunity to practice the historian's craft as they learn how to: collect data; use the latest electronic research tools; obtain and evaluate documents and sources; conduct and record eyewitness acounts of historical events in family life. Each volume also explains to students the "whys" and "hows" of tracing their roots if they are adopted or come from non-tradtional families.Author: Peggy Ryskamp Company: Greenwood (1996-09-11) ISBN: 0897749812 List Price: $36.95 Used Price: $0.01  If you don't have Mexican ancestors, this book will make you with you had. If you are one of the millions of Americans who can trace your heritage across the Rio Grande, then get ready to come face to face with your own history. In Finding Your Mexican Ancestors, you will discover direct, easy-to-follow instructions that will lead you through Mexico's carefully preserved records. George and Peggy Ryskamp's easy style and dynamic approach make finding and using parish records, civil records, and other useful Mexican resources as simple as it is thrilling.Author: Peggy Hill Ryskamp Company: Ancestry Publishing (2007-01-23) (2007-01-23) ISBN: 1593313071 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $9.29 Used Price: $9.49  This collection presents a rich, multidisciplinary inquiry into the role of religion in the Mexican American community. Breaking new ground by analyzing the influence of religion on Mexican American literature, art, activism, and popular culture, it makes the case for the establishment of Mexican American religious studies as a distinct, recognized field of scholarly inquiry. Scholars of religion, Latin American, and Chicano/a studies as well as of sociology, anthropology, and literary and performance studies, address several broad themes. Taking on questions of history and interpretation, they examine the origins of Mexican American religious studies and Mario Barrera’s theory of internal colonialism. In discussions of the utopian community founded by the preacher and activist Reies López Tijerina, César Chávez’s faith-based activism, and the Los Angeles-based Católicos Por La Raza movement of the late 1960s, other contributors focus on mystics and prophets. Still others illuminate popular Catholicism by looking at Our Lady of Guadalupe, home altars, and Los Pastores dramas (nativity plays) as vehicles for personal, social, and political empowerment. Turning to literature, contributors consider Gloria Anzaldúa’s view of the borderlands as a mystic vision and the ways that Chicana writers invoke religious symbols and rhetoric to articulate a moral vision highlighting social injustice. They investigate the role of healing, looking at it in relation to both the Latino Pentecostal movement and the practice of the curanderismo tradition in East Los Angeles. Delving into to popular culture, they reflect on Luis Valdez’s video drama La Pastorela: “The Shepherds’ Play,” the spirituality of Chicana art, and the religious overtones of the reverence for the slain Tejana music star Selena. This volume signals the vibrancy and diversity of the practices, arts, traditions, and spiritualities that reflect and inform Mexican American religion. Contributors: Rudy V. Busto, Davíd Carrasco, Socorro Castañeda-Liles, Gastón Espinosa, Richard R. Flores, Mario T. García, María Herrera-Sobek, Luís D. León, Ellen McCracken, Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett, Laura E. Pérez, Roberto Lint Saragena, Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, Kay Turner Company: Duke University Press Books (2008-07-08) ISBN: 0822341190 List Price: $27.95 Amazon Price: $11.38 Used Price: $3.93  This full updated comprehensive record of the original Spanish families of New Mexico in the 17th and 18th centuries marks the two distinct periods of colonisation.Author: Angelico Chavez Company: Museum of New Mexico Pr (1992-12) ISBN: 0890132399 List Price: $50.00 Amazon Price: $30.71 Used Price: $35.58  Despite their citizenship and English monolingualism, Mexican Americans have long been known to remain largely working class, which, academically, has meant that they tend to be mostly high school graduates, with low rates of college attendance and completion. Attempting to understand this phenomenon, Five Generations of a Mexican American Family in Los Angeles chronicles the home, work and school lives of the author's multigenerational family throughout the twentieth century. Using oral histories of 33 members across five generations, the Fuentes story illuminates the interaction between race, ethnicity and class at home, in the labor market and in schools, which circumscribe the opportunity and resources (or lack thereof) for academic success. Generally, findings show that these factors work together to reproduce the family's social standing over generations. Equally important, the analysis reveals how the persistence and strength of the Fuentes' heritage cultural values (buena educaci-n and familism) have insulated them from the continued threat of racial discrimination and economic hardship in American life. The Fuentes story provides the reader with a keen view of the process by which Fuentes' moved from immigrants to ethnic Americans, and shows how they have gracefully survived the harsh and unpredictable nature of being of a racial minority and the working class.Author: Christina Chavez Company: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2007-04-09) ISBN: 0742538826 List Price: $28.95 Amazon Price: $23.00 Used Price: $10.75  History of Pasadena, comprising an account of the native Indian, the early Spanish, the Mexican, the American, the colony, and the incorporated city, occupancies of the Rancho San Pasqual, and its adjacent mountains, canyons, waterfalls and other objects of ... interest: being a complete and comprehensive histo-cyclopedia of all matters pertaining to this region. 714 Pages.Author: Alfred James McClatchie (2013-04-24) (2013-04-24)  This third edition of our ground-breaking publication, the first survey of Tejanos, has been completely updated to present a concise political, cultural, and social history of Mexican Americans in Texas from the Spanish colonial era to the present day, a time when people of Mexican descent are poised to become the demographic majority in the Lone Star.Writing specifically for the college-level student and careful to include a consensus of the latest literature in this strong and continually growing field, Professor De León portrays Tejanos as active subjects, not merely objects, in the ongoing Texas story. Complemented by a stunning photographic essay and a helpful glossary, and featuring new biographical vignettes that now introduce and set the context for each chapter, this third edition of our well-loved text is certain to be even more engaging and relevant to readers of all levels. And while the book targets a wide reading audience, it is ideally fit for classroom use. Professors teaching courses in Texas, western, and borderlands history will find it an ideal complement to their class lectures and other outside reading assignments. Of particular interest to students will be discussions describing the survival techniques Tejanos developed to withstand poverty and disadvantage, the process of assimilation over many generations, the changes engendered by the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, the role of political figures such as José Antonio Navarro, J. T. Canales, Alonso Perales, Héctor P. García, or Irma Rangel, or the impact of court cases like which Hernández v. Texas or Plyler v. Doe that changed the direction of Mexican American history. Author: Arnoldo De Leon Company: Harlan Davidson (2009-02-02) ISBN: 0882952684 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: $18.00 Used Price: $10.93  Mexican-American genealogical research has long been an under-appreciated pastime, practiced by a select few. However, "Mexican-American Genealogical Research: Following the Paper Trail to Mexico" brings a new resource into the public eye and provides theAuthor: Donna Morales Company: Heritage Books Inc. (2002-08-01) ISBN: 0788421395 List Price: $21.00 Amazon Price: $17.35 Used Price: $15.49 Amazon.com Books: genealogy
 Trace and record your family history online Are you a descendant of ancient kings? Were your ancestors fierce warriors? Are you related to an eminent scholar? With The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy, 2nd Edition, now you can find out! If you're interested in your family history, you have a wealth of information and misinformation at your fingertips. Enter expert genealogist Kimberly Powell to steer you in the right direction. Powell helps you: Effectively search various websites Decipher census data and other online records Choose the best way to share your data both on and offline Connect with other genealogists via social media outlets Packed with tips on free databases, search sites and downloadable government records, you'll have all you need to find your ancestors going back dozens of generations! Author: Kimberly Powell Company: Adams Media (2011-01-18) ISBN: 1440511683 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $8.93 Used Price: $8.91  Proven Solutions for Your Research ChallengesHas your family history research hit a brick wall? Marsha Hoffman Rising's best-selling book The Family Tree Problem Solver has the solutions to help you find the answers you seek. Inside you'll find:Ideas on how to find vital records before civil registrationTips for finding ''missing'' ancestors on censusesInstructions for investigating collateral kin to further your pedigreeA look at advanced court records and how they can help you find answersWork-arounds for lost or destroyed recordsTechniques for correctly identifying and researching ancestors with common names This book is the ideal companion for anybody researching their family tree. It provides advice and inspiration on methods and problem-solving and helps the amateur family historian understand what successful professionals do to get results, and why we should copy them. Over the course of 10 chapters it examines the various themes that affect the success or failure of all genealogy research. This begins with an overview of common challenges genealogists encounter and continues with an examination of how to both search effectively and find the right documentary sources. Using examples from her own family history as well as client work, teacher and professional genealogist Helen Osborn demonstrates how to get the most from documents, analyze problems, and build research plans. These subjects lead on to recording results, how to ensure relationships are correctly proved, organizing information, and presenting your findings. Although the book deals mainly with research in England and Wales, the skills taught are easily transferable to research in other countries. This book will be particularly valuable to anyone who is stuck with their research, in addition to those who are keen to learn about advanced skills and methods used by genealogists.Author: Helen Osborn Company: Robert Hale (2012-12-01) ISBN: 0709091974 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $15.50 Used Price: $16.22  Unlock the Secrets of Your Old Family Photos! Historical family photos are cherished heirlooms that offer a glimpse into the lives of our ancestors. But the images, and the stories behind them, often fade away as decades pass - the who, when, where and why behind the photos are lost. In this book, photo identification expert and genealogist Maureen A. Taylor shows you how to study the clues in your old family photos to put names to faces and recapture their lost stories. Inside, you'll learn how to: Determine the type of image you have - from common paper prints to stereographs to historical daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes Use clothing, accessories, and hairstyles to date the image in the correct decade Research photographer's imprints to narrow down when and where the photo was taken Compare facial features in multiple photos to confirm identity and family resemblance Interview family members to gather more information about the image Identify props in the photo to create context for the image Each chapter includes dozens of historical photos to illustrate key points and provide clear examples. Charts, timelines and resource lists make it easy to find the exact information you need. Dozens of case studies show you how to apply the techniques in the book to real-life photo research projects. The answers to your family photo questions are closer than you think. Let this book help you start finding them today. Author: Maureen A. Taylor Company: Family Tree Books (2013-02-12) ISBN: 1440324980 List Price: $26.99 Amazon Price: $16.41 Used Price: $14.36  A professional genealogist reveals how to get past brick walls in research and unearth hard-to-find ancestors Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques uses up-to-date and highly organized methods and techniques to show you how to find the elusive details to round out your genealogy research. You’ll get past the brick walls that have stumped you and see how to move beyond basic types of genealogy resources. The book covers a variety of software programs and specialized genealogy tools and shows you how to create an online genealogical research log to preserve data found and organize it in ways to help you understand what you’ve uncovered. Nearly every form of modern social networking is addresses as is using DNA records. This practical, in-depth guide provides the next level of detail for anyone who wants to expand beyond the beginner tactics and techniques. Uses proven research methods to go deeper and uncover elusive details Helps you to understand the details you uncover and keep track of data Covers a variety of software programs and specialized genealogy tools Offers multiple scenarios and examples to drive home the research methods explained  INTERNET GENEALOGY EXPERT REVEALS TOP TECHNIQUES - NOW 5 FOR THE PRICE OF 2Save a Bundle on this Genealogy Bundle! Internet expert Nancy Hendrickson has bundled five of her most popular Kindle One-Hour Genealogist Guides in this super-savings bundle. Get all five today for the price of two and tackle fun family tree Internet research projects: Bundle includes: 1. 101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree 2. Cemetery Research on the Internet 3. Family Tree Case Study 4. Family Tree Map Research on the Internet 5. How to Find Your Civil War Ancestor What Family Tree Tips Will You Learn? 1. Free websites for locating social history, military history, immigration, data in each of the U.S. states, and free databases. 2. Look over an expert's shoulder as she uses the Internet to track down an elusive ancestor - a case study. 3. It's the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Learn how to easily find your soldier ancestor, track his movements, locate Civil War photos and maps. 4. The value of old maps in tracking ancestors. Where to find free maps, how they contain clues to family migrations. 5. How to use the Internet to find ancestral burial spots; where to request photos, how to get the best photos in a cemetery, even under poor lighting. The author has spent a lifetime tracking down her ancestral lines; learn her favorite tricks and short-cuts to finding your family on the Internet. All of the sites listed are free. Grab The Genealogy Bundle Today for a 60% Savings If you're ready to dive into the Internet, locate free resources for every state, learn useful photography tricks, get photos of an ancestor's burial spot, discover free immigration, map, and Civil War resources . . . if you love the "family tree hunt" as much as the author does . . . click the orange Buy button at the top of this page (or Gift this book to a friend), download in seconds and start researching today! Author: Nancy Hendrickson Company: Green Pony Press, Inc. (2013-03-28) (2013-03-28)  This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.Author: Various (2012-05-11) (2012-05-11)  Free Family Tree ResourcesInstead of spending hours searching the Internet for free genealogy websites, use this guide to shortcut your search. Containing 101 of the best websites for free genealogy, this One-Hour Genealogist guide was researched, tested and compiled by a foremost Internet genealogy expert. Using her years of online experience, Nancy Hendrickson has put together her favorite and most-used free sites. Each of the first 50 sites include an Overview, an explanation of Why This Site, and a suggested Search Strategy. Sites are grouped by: -military -social history -immigration -databases -odds 'n ends Next, you'll find links to free databases or great statewide information for each of the 50 states. And, because some sites are just too good to be left out, you'll find another 10 (bringing the total to 111) that Nancy couldn't do without in her own research. Can you find all of these sites on your own without this guide? Absolutely! But why spend YOUR time finding free sites when you could be finding ancestors! About the Author Nancy Hendrickson is a life-long genealogy researcher, the author of Discover Your Family History Online, a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine and the creator of the One-Hour Genealogist Series. She invites you to contact her if you find any broken links (after all, the Internet changes daily!) at nancy [at] ancestornews [dot] com, or just to say "hi". Note to our UK friends - this volume is for U.S. Research only. Author: Nancy Hendrickson Company: Green Pony Press, Inc. (2011-03-10) (2011-03-10) List Price: $0.99  This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.Author: Mary Johnston (2012-05-12) (2012-05-12)  The Geneology Detective is available on Kindle or you can download it to your computer with Amazon's FREE Kindle application for PC. Are you ready to become a Genealogy Detective? If you are, you will need the tools and rules to get you on your way. This book is fully armed and ready to guide you in each step in becoming the best genealogy detective in the business. You will learn how to investigate each and every crime scene (ancestor) with all due diligence, and find the clues that will lead you to your illusive ancestor. Being a genealogy detective is fun, easy and filled with hours of exciting research and it will take you to many new and exciting places that you never knew existed. This detective genealogy book is going to teach you all the tricks of the trade in solving each mystery in an easy and concise format. You will learn how to questions all the witnesses to the crime (ancestor) and what to do with each clue as you investigate. Genealogy is the passion of my life; do you want it to be yours? Then get this book immediately and get started on the most exciting journey of your lifetime and become the next great Sherlock Holmes of the genealogy detective world. You will learn all about genealogy... Learn how to collect the evidence Find out what to do with the clues Learn what to put in your genealogy bag Learn how to investigate each crime (ancestor) Learn how to extract the details from people and sources Learn the most important rules in your quest for that illusive ancestor Learn the best places to get your information from Understand the difference between abstracting, transcribing and extraction Find out the all you need to know about becoming a genealogy detective Discover a good genealogy program that you will need to enter in all your clues Author: Jeanie Blanton-Trimble (2010-05-04) (2010-05-04) List Price: $8.97 Amazon.com Books: genealogical research
 Reference for conducting genealogical research in VirginiaAuthor: George K. Schweitzer Company: Genealogical Sources Unltd (1983-06) ISBN: 0913857068 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $30.00 Used Price: $1.99  It is not generally recognized, but Washington, D.C. is home to the largest body of accessible research materials in the world, larger even than the vast body of materials at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It is the central repository of the nation's primary source records and the very center of genealogical activity. The aim of this book is to identify those resources in the Washington, D.C. area that will aid family historians in tracing their ancestors (the National Archives, Library of Congress, the DAR Library, the National Genealogical Society, and many more). While it is based on the original idea of the popular guidebook, Lest We Forget (originally published in 1965), The Center is actually an all-new work which completely revises and updates its predecessor. Under each facility listed there is a survey of key record holdings, with a description of the records, a summary of their contents, an explanation of their organization, and directions for their use. There is also a list of published indexes and finding aids, key addresses for mail requests, publications, phone numbers and hours of business, and an itemization of those materials available through the Family History Library system.Author: Christina K. Schaefer Company: Genealogical Publishing Company (2009-12-08) ISBN: 0806315156 List Price: $22.00 Amazon Price: $4.40 Used Price: $0.01  Excel has many uses beyond crunching numbers for accountants. Learn some quick ways to use Excel in your genealogy research.Author: Jennifer Holik-Urban Company: Generations (2011-01-11) (2011-01-11) List Price: $3.99 Mexican-American genealogical research has long been an under-appreciated pastime, practiced by a select few. However, "Mexican-American Genealogical Research: Following the Paper Trail to Mexico" brings a new resource into the public eye and provides theAuthor: Donna Morales Company: Heritage Books Inc. (2002-08-01) ISBN: 0788421395 List Price: $21.00 Amazon Price: $17.35 Used Price: $15.49  A must have for anyone planning to conduct research in the Library of Congress! The Library of Congress is one of the greatest information reservoirs in the world! Many a genealogist have found themselves walking the enormous halls of the three buildings that hold the library's multitude of information sources. It is a difficult task! This mammoth institution is more than just The Local History and Genealogy Reading Room! To properly conduct research, you must know how to, and where to access all the resources the library has to offer! The Library of Congress, by James C. Neagles, is your essential guide to the library's holdings. Clearly and simply written, this book brings to order the otherwise unmanageable body of material! Don't lose valuable time and money on a research trip to this labyrinthine library! Get your copy today! 382 Pages, 8 1/2 x 11  In the wake of highly-publicized scientific breakthroughs in using genetics to establish family connections, genealogists began to see potential for their own research. Now many are finding that organizing tests is a relatively straightforward matter - and that comparing the DNA signatures of individuals can reveal startling information on families, surnames and origins. Here Chris Pomery explains the practicalities of testing and interpreting the results. He also takes an objective look at the issues. Whether you are simply seeking to stay informed, actively interested in exploiting the technology, or already part of a DNA project, this is the one guide that fully explores the existing possibilities. Author: Chris Pomery Company: Dundurn (2004-10-01) ISBN: 1550025368 List Price: $20.99 Amazon Price: $12.23 Used Price: $14.10  Finally--the only guidebook devoted exclusively to research in America's courthouses. Full of essentials starting with preparation, interacting with the clerks, using the indexes, and what to expect to find in each courthoiuse office. But it doesn't stop there. Evaluating the records and using them to solve genealogical problems are included. For those who can't travel to the courthouse personally, use of the Internet, microfilm, and published books of abstracts are discussed. Tips galore from an author who has researched in more than 500 courthouses.  Filled with practical advice that will help anyone obtain the information they seek through Italian records, Italian Genealogical Records is a comprehensive guide to the complexities and nuances of what could otherwise be a daunting task. In this book, the author discusses the history and development of Italian record keeping, providing reproductions of typical records and a complete translation and thorough explanation of each. Among the many other topics covered in this book are the significance of Italian surnames and the relevance of Italian noble families in the search for Italian ancestors. Author: Trafford R Cole Company: Ancestry Publishing (1995-09-01) ISBN: 0916489582 List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $19.82 Used Price: $14.34 A professional genealogist reveals how to get past brick walls in research and unearth hard-to-find ancestors Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques uses up-to-date and highly organized methods and techniques to show you how to find the elusive details to round out your genealogy research. You’ll get past the brick walls that have stumped you and see how to move beyond basic types of genealogy resources. The book covers a variety of software programs and specialized genealogy tools and shows you how to create an online genealogical research log to preserve data found and organize it in ways to help you understand what you’ve uncovered. Nearly every form of modern social networking is addresses as is using DNA records. This practical, in-depth guide provides the next level of detail for anyone who wants to expand beyond the beginner tactics and techniques. Uses proven research methods to go deeper and uncover elusive details Helps you to understand the details you uncover and keep track of data Covers a variety of software programs and specialized genealogy tools Offers multiple scenarios and examples to drive home the research methods explained  Contents are North Carolina background, Types of Records, Record Locations, and Research Procedures and County Listing (what records are available in each county).Author: George K. Schweitzer Company: Genealogical Sources Unltd (1984-06) ISBN: 0913857033 List Price: $15.00 Amazon Price: $22.00 Used Price: $6.99 Amazon.com Books: Russian genealogy
 An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, containing a new chapter on Russian literature of the 1980s and additional bibliographical information.Company: Cambridge University Press (1992-05-29) ISBN: 0521425670 List Price: $80.00 Amazon Price: $65.68 Used Price: $23.75  This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.Author: Frederick Clifton Pierce Company: Ulan Press (2012-08-31) List Price: $33.99 Amazon Price: $28.62  The book traces the origins of the family names of Jews who lived in Minsk Guberniya (Imperial Russia) in XVIII-XIX centuries. Based on the rare census documents from Belarus National Archives author documents over 5000 family names that settled throughout Minsk Guberniya in XVIII-XIX centuries. This book would be of the great interest to anybody who wants to find out more about their family roots as well as to genealogy researchers.Author: Eduard Rabinovich (2012-05-07) (2012-05-07)  Author: Evgenii V. Anisimov Company: M E Sharpe Inc (1993-01) ISBN: 1563240483 List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $16.00 Used Price: $4.89  Bonus Content: Images from Tolstoy
Amazon Exclusive: A Q&A with Author Rosamund Bartlett  Q: What drew you to Tolstoy? A: Apart from a lifetime fascination with the great Russian writers at the personal and professional level, my interest was spurred by having previously written a biography of Chekhov and translated his stories and letters. One cannot avoid noticing Chekhov’s reverence for Tolstoy as a writer, thinker, and social activist—it crops up in numerous remarkable letters he wrote both before and after he became friends with the great writer. For Chekhov, Tolstoy was the most important person in Russia, and not just as an artist and father figure, but as a moral authority. I wanted to gain a deeper understanding of what it was that made Chekhov, and indeed the majority of the Russian population, look up to Tolstoy as a spiritual leader at the end of the nineteenth century, when his stature was greater than that of the tsar. Q: Why write a new biography of Tolstoy now? A: There are three main reasons. First, the centenary of Tolstoy’s death in November 2010 provided a great opportunity to assess his legacy, and second, there are surprisingly few other English-language biographies of Tolstoy. Third, and most important, the arrival of perestroika and glasnost, followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, changed fundamentally and irrevocably how we write about Russia, including its great writers. Despite his worldwide fame as a novelist, Tolstoy was, like all other Russian writers, posthumously subject to ideological control, and the suppression of his monumental spiritual legacy after 1917 resulted in a skewed picture of his life. The relaxation of censorship introduced by Gorbachev, however, opened the floodgates to a mass of new material, upon which this biography draws extensively. Q: What is different about your biography? A: Today we have much more objective information about Tolstoy himself and about his family, his many followers, the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (which excommunicated him in 1901), and the tsarist government. We can construct a much fuller and more accurate picture of Tolstoy’s life and, just as important, place it in a detailed cultural context. Moreover, this biography is written from Tolstoy’s own point of view, rather than that of the typical Anglophone reader. So instead of focusing most attention on the seventeen-year-period in which War and Peace and Anna Karenina were written, it places a great deal of emphasis on the last thirty years of Tolstoy’s life, when he became a social and religious crusader. Q: Why did you choose the subtitle "A Russian Life"? A: I see Tolstoy as a genius who embodied much of the Russian experience in all its intense and passionate extremes. Using the particular structure of my biography, I wanted to show that Tolstoy, in the course of his eighty-two years, actually lived many lives, most of which were deeply Russian archetypes: the reckless gambler, the repentant nobleman, the holy fool, the admired elder, the nihilist, and others. Q: How did translating Tolstoy’s work inform the biography? A: When I wrote my biography of Chekhov, I found it very fruitful to translate some of his greatest short stories at the same time. In fact, most of my inspiration for writing Chekhov’s biography came from the experience of engaging closely with the rhythms and cadences of his prose. I wanted to have the same experience with Tolstoy, and indeed I found that whatever insights I have of Tolstoy’s personality probably came from having completed half of my translation of Anna Karenina before embarking on my biography of its author. Translating Tolstoy means getting to know him from the inside. Q:What were you most surprised to learn in your research? A: I had not expected to discover how much love and devotion Tolstoy poured into his educational work, both as a founder of schools for illiterate peasantry in which he himself taught, and as the author of a pioneering primer designed to help all Russian children learn to read and write. Tolstoy’s educational ideas were rather unorthodox and anarchic, like all his thinking, but deeply original, and conceived with the Russian culture and the Russian language in mind. It is extraordinary to consider that after finishing the Homeric epic of War and Peace, Tolstoy literally went back to the letters of the alphabet. Q:You write extensively about Tolstoy as a political figure in his time, but what is important to note about his legacy? A: I was greatly surprised to discover the extent of Tolstoy’s importance as a political figure in Russia, beginning in the 1860s, before he wrote War and Peace, and culminating with the international media event of his death in 1910. But the story does not end there. In my epilogue, I discuss what happened to Tolstoy and his artistic and religious legacy after 1917—a story that has much to do with Russia’s signal failure to mark the centenary of his death in 2010 in any serious way, and which is crucial to our understanding of the man. In addition, Tolstoy’s enormous body of spiritual writings was only published once, in the complete collected works, with a tiny print run, so generations of Russians grew up in the twentieth century without any knowledge of them. Today Tolstoy remains a threat to the Russian establishment because of his anarchic ideas and his never-ending quest for truth. Q:What’s the one thing you want everyone to know about Tolstoy? A: Tolstoy may not have been as endearing a man as Chekhov, nor as compassionate and open as an artist, but he deserves our admiration for his fearless courage in standing up to a corrupt regime and refusing to be silent about its moral failures. He also fully deserves his reputation as one of the world’s great novelists for creating all those unforgettable characters with such closely observed psychological detail. As in all great works of art, their experiences transcend time and place, and articulate what it is to be human. A novel like War and Peace is universal and timeless, and offers rich rewards on a second, third, and fourth reading. Author: Rosamund Bartlett Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2011-11-08) (2011-11-08) ISBN: 0151014388 List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $6.97 Used Price: $1.72  The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy, and environmental catastrophes to rival Chernobyl, the United States has been retracing the trajectory of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s toward national bankruptcy and political dissolution. By comparing a collapse that has run its course to one that is now unfolding, Dmitry Orlov holds a unique lens up to America's present and future. As Orlov's predictions continue to come true, his writing continues to gain mainstream acceptance. This revised and updated edition of Reinventing Collapse examines the circumstances of the demise of the Soviet superpower and offers clear insights into how we might prepare for the events that are unfolding here. Orlov gives no quarter to prophets of doom and gloom, finding plenty of room for optimism, if only we focus our efforts on personal and cultural transformation instead of trying to perpetuate an impossible status quo. This challenging yet inspiring and surprisingly upbeat work is a must-read for anyone concerned about peak oil, the environment, geopolitics, international relations, and life in a resource-constrained world. Dmitry Orlov is an American engineer who was an eyewitness to the Soviet collapse and has written extensively on the subject of the impending collapse of the United States. Author: Dmitry Orlov Company: New Society Publishers (2011-05-31) ISBN: 0865716854 List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $9.50 Used Price: $8.58  The author’s observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. “This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians” (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers; illustrations. Author: Vladimir Nabokov Company: Mariner Books (2002-12-16) ISBN: 0156027763 List Price: $16.95 Amazon Price: $6.40 Used Price: $6.23  The author’s observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. “This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians” (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers; illustrations. Author: Vladimir Nabokov Company: Mariner Books (1982-09-30) ISBN: 0156495910 List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $119.55 Used Price: $1.73  Written by the authors of Avotaynu's Following the Paper Trail, the book includes: * over 88 Russian-language documents and extracts from American and European sources, analyzed and translated -- they include extracts from birth, death, and marriage records of various formats; gazetteer entries; revision lists; obituaries; population registers; military service records; passports; etc. * sections on Russian grammar, phonetics, and spelling * information on how to locate records in America and Europe * a chapter on gazetteers and how to use them, with 10 maps showing Russia's changing borders and divisions, and Letter-Writing Guides for Russian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian * a 77-page vocabulary with over 4,000 entries, featuring archaic terms and spellings most likely to be found in records but rarely included in modern dictionaries * a 26-page list of over 700 Christian and Jewish given names with equivalents in English, Latin, Lithuanian, and PolishAuthor: William F. Hoffman Company: Language & Lineage Press (2003-01-31) ISBN: 0963157949 List Price: $35.00  "... one of the most coherent and unified collaborative works in the field of Russian history." —American Historical Review "This book excels in capturing the colors, tastes, sounds, and smells of Imperial Russia’s rapidly growing, ethnically divided cities... " —Journal of Interdisciplinary History "... must reading for those interested in Russian urban and social history." —Slavic Review "This is a rich and informative book... "Â —Journal of Social History From the Great Reforms that began in the 1860s to the revolutions of 1917, the Russian Empire experienced a period of explosive urban growth. This unique and important volume examines the changes it brought in eight of the Empire’s largest cities. Company: Indiana University Press (1986-07-22) (1986-07-22) ISBN: 0253313708 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $30.17 Used Price: $0.24 |
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