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Reading Early American Handwriting
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4.23 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 400,
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300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late
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Shannon L. Alder (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 299,
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3 people voted
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Who Do You Think You Are?: The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History
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Megan Smolenyak (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 456 ratings
score: 297,
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The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research
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4.11 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 296,
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The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy
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Val D. Greenwood (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 230 ratings
score: 289,
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3 people voted
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DNA Nation: How the Internet of Genes is Changing Your Life
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Sergio Pistoi (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 200,
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Preserve Your Family Pictures: How To Save Photo Heirlooms for Future Generations
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Amber Richards (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 198,
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Everything Family Tree Book: Research and Preserve Your Family History
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3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 195,
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Genetic Genealogy in Practice
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Blaine T. Bettinger (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 139 ratings
score: 195,
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The Desperate Genealogist's Idea Book
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 194,
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Genealogy Tool Kit: Getting Started on Your Family History at the National Archives
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score: 193,
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The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
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Blaine T. Bettinger (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 787 ratings
score: 193,
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Unpuzzling Your Past: The Best-Selling Basic Guide to Genealogy
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4.02 avg rating — 131 ratings
score: 192,
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500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 190,
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Organize Your Genealogy: Strategies and Solutions for Every Researcher
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Drew Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 234 ratings
score: 189,
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The Fastest Growing Religion on Earth: How Genealogy Captured the Brains and Imaginations of Americans
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Doug Bremner (Goodreads Author)
3.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 185,
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The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry in Europe
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4.11 avg rating — 108 ratings
score: 182,
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How to Use Evernote for Genealogy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Organize Your Research and Boost Your Genealogy Productivity
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4.06 avg rating — 144 ratings
score: 181,
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The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy
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Loretto Dennis Szucs (Editor)
4.31 avg rating — 141 ratings
score: 178,
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Forensic Genealogy
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Colleen Fitzpatrick (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 176,
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Over the Mountain Men: Their Early Court Records in Southwest Virginia
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Anne L. Worrell (Compiler)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 100,
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Antonio's Will
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Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 100,
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Genealogie : van stamboom tot familiegeschiedenis
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score: 100,
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Be Your Own Dick: Private Investigating Made Easy
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 99,
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Visiting Your Ancestral Town
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Carolyn Schott (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 99,
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Uw stamboom op de computer
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French genealogy from afar : being basic procedures and suggested first steps in research via the new electronic technology and method of communication known as the Internet... as presented on the French Genealogy Blog
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Anne Morddel (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 98,
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Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project
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3.88 avg rating — 707 ratings
score: 98,
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Hoe schrijf ik geschiedenis? : handleiding voor het schrijven van een familie- of streekgeschiedenis
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 98,
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Black Roots: A Beginners Guide To Tracing The African American Family Tree
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4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 97,
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Handbook on Irish Genealogy: How to Trace Your Ancestors and Relatives in Ireland (Heraldry and genealogy series)
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 97,
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The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!
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3.80 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Kentucky Court and Other Records Volume I: Early Wills and Marriages, Old
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score: 95,
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The Dead Book: Burials In The City Cemetery Milledgeville, Georgia, 1869-1904
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 93,
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list created June 30th, 2011
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