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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Growing a Top-Notch Family Tree with Stories from its Branches

Growing a Top-Notch Family Tree with Stories from its Branches

Klein, Nancy Blodgett

Paperback

Genealogy & HeraldryGeneral ParentingGeneral World History

ISBN13: 9798227066619
Publisher: Nancy Blodgett Klein
Published: Apr 26 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book gives advice to genealogists about steps to take to grow a great family tree online, with details about what to do and what to avoid to have the best possible tree for current family, future generations and the wider community to enjoy. It includes details about three online sites, Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage. It discusses the importance of DNA testing and DNA matching with relatives to help you verify your findings.

The second half shares stories about family tree members, including famous ones like Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins, colorful characters from the Stewart/Stuart family of Scotland, and troublesome women relatives like Elizabeth Woodville of England, Elizabeth Hutchinson, from Massachusetts, and fancy dresser Thomasine Boyes, a British immigrant to Massachusetts and wife of Rev. Francis Johnson, a popular Puritan minister. Stories are told about great-grandfather Hall Deland, a key figure in the Underground Railroad in Michigan, along with a great-grandfather who got rich buying slaves and working them on his Louisiana plantation. Some stories are funny, such as one about a relative's embarrassing encounter with Puritan ethics, while others are quite sad, such as the chapter about six generations of sad endings among Zealand relatives.

This book is designed to be both educational and entertaining for anyone interested in genealogy, be they new to the subject or an experienced master.

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