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Portable Genealogist: African American Resources

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This guide is designed to help you through the challenging process of locating your African American ancestors. It provides tips for getting started, summarizes the various documents and records you should consult, and shows you how to read the elements of a slave schedule. This helpful guide also features a chart showing where you can locate the different types of records described.

The four-page laminated guide can fit easily in your research binder.

By Meaghan E. H. Siekman, Ph.D.

Finding Oprahs Roots Finding Your Own

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Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Published: 2007

For Oprah, the path back to the past was emotion-filled and profoundly illuminating, connecting the narrative of her family to the larger American narrative and ôanchoringö her in a way not previously possible. For the reader, Finding OprahÆs Roots offers the possibility of an equally rewarding experience.

Searching for Family History Photos: How to Get Them Now

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Do you want to find photos of your family but you are not sure where to go? Do you feel overwhelmed by internet searches? Maureen Taylor, “the Photo Detective” and author of Preserving Your Family Photographs and Family Photo Detective, guides you, step by step, through the many photo search options. She shares tips learned as a professional photo researcher, and directs you to the best photo archive websites and more. Whether you are searching for images or you want to share photos you already have, this book will show you how to:

Fashionable Folks: Bonnets and Hats, 1840–1900

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Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective explores the history of toques and top hats, bowlers, and bonnets to add another dimension to understanding your family photographs. Fanciful, frilly, and fascinating, women’s hats made a fashion statement. There were hundreds of choices available each season. And they came with names like Leghorns, Gainsborough’s, poke bonnets, and wide-awakes. Home factories produced trim and hats for milliners, while enterprising women raised small birds destined to be stuffed for hat adornments. Men’s hats could be utilitarian.

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