Book description
Proven Solutions for Your Research Challenges
Has 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 registration
- Tips for finding ''missing'' ancestors on censuses
- Instructions for investigating collateral kin to further your pedigree
- A look at advanced court records and how they can help you find answers
- Work-arounds for lost or destroyed records
- Techniques for correctly identifying and researching ancestors
with common names
- Methods for finding ancestors who lived before 1850
- Case studies that show how to apply the author's advice to
real-life research roadblocks
- Strategies for analyzing your problem and creating a successful
research plan
This revised edition also includes new information about online
research techniques and a look at the role of DNA research. Plus
you'll find a glossary of genealogy terms and more than a dozen
templates for charts and logs to help you organize and record your
research. Let The Family Tree Problem Solver help you find the
answers you need today.
Marsha Hoffman Rising CG, FASG, was a professional genealogist
who specialized in problem-solving issues that arise while researching
nineteenth century ancestors. She also served as vice president of the
National Genealogy Society and served on the boards of the Association
of Professional Genealogists, the Board for Certification of
Genealogists, the New England Historic Genealogic Society, and as
president of the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the
Genealogical Speaker's Guild. During her thirty year professional
career in genealogy, she received the National Genealogical Society
Award of Merit (1989), was elected a Fellow of the Utah Genealogical
Society (1990), received the FGS George E. Williams Award (1991), the
National Genealogical Society Award of Excellence (1992), and the FGS
Malcolm H. Stern Humanitarian Award (1999).
