My Ancestor's Story.com Digital Ancestory Resources

This beginner's guide to finding family history online takes readers through a simple, step-by-step process to help fill the gaps and holes in one's family network. Complete with a section of reviewed and recommended genealogy websites, this resource provides guidance on how to maximize the benefits of the Internet while avoiding less-than-reputable and unreliable sites. Peppered with amusing but encouraging personal stories, the author calls upon more than 30 years of genealogy experience to help readers hunt down their ancestral lines from all of the major countries of the world.

"Discover Your Family History" is written by genealogy enthusiast Chris Mason. A fantastic guide to researching your own family history, this book gives you hints and tips including website references and other useful addresses. Written from a practical viewpoint, it is packed full with examples of certificates, census material and illustrated with real life examples. This book will inspire anyone who wishes to start investigating they're own family history. Packaged in a new innovative format with a "Discovering Your Family History DVD" as an additional extra integrated into the packaging, this is a superbly priced book with a totally interactive theme.

Family Tree Maker is a program that allows users to input their family information and produce a variety of charts, reports, and customizable family history books. Entered data can be used to create web pages and saved in a format that can be shared with anyone who has a GEDCOM compliant genealogy program. Family Tree Maker has the largest Internet genealogy community in the world and provides access to over 1 billion names. Plus, the unique FamilyFinder Index actually helps guide you where to look for them.

Family historians know the value of preserving precious family heirlooms - old letters, diaries, photographs, Bible pages. Yet most have limited, if any, knowledge of the technology needed to safely save these items. Digitizing Your Family History gives readers the tools they need to keep these records permanently. They'll learn to: Utilize a scanner to best save photos and documents; Get maximum results from digital cameras; Enhance vintage photos through electronic editing; Work with printers, PDAs, and more to preserve family records; Organize digital records for easy access in later years; With McClure's instructive guide, genealogists will learn how to better preserve their family memories for future generations.

Do you wish you knew more about your great-grandparents? So will your great-grandchildren! This book shows you how to preserve your family stories as an exciting interactive experience that will be treasured for generations to come. Myfamily.com instructor David Beardsley gives you all the information you need to combine interviews, family photos, documents, home movies and more into a CD or DVD that combines the best of a videotape and a written memoir. Create a permanent document that your family will actually want to have. No previous experience required!

This book is written by Cyndi Howells, owner and webmaster of Cyndi's List, a Web site of more than 130,000 online genealogical resources. Cyndi points out, "This book is loaded with URLs to Web sites that will give you everything you need to create a beautiful family tree online." However, Web site URLs change daily and some may no longer work. She has created web pages as part of Cyndi's List that correspond to the features of the book so that the URLs will be kept up-to-date.

If you had your father's or mother's autobiography, wouldn't you consider it to be among your most prized possessions? While you may no longer be able to fill this particular void, you can ensure that your heirs will not suffer the same sort of loss. Leaving your memoirs is a gift that only you can give, one that those close to you will treasure. One that will be cherished and passed down generation to generation. Remember, if you don't record the stories about the events of your life, no one will, and knowledge of these events will disappear for all time. Videotape Your Memoirs, the first book of its kind, is the guide to recording the times of your life. Let your memories lead the way!

Following on from her previous book, "Meet Your Ancestors" Diana Marelli provides you with the knowledge you need to build the history of your ancestors without leaving the comfort of your own home. Using only the Internet, you will be able to: source birth, marriage and death registers (bmd); locate, access and print census information from 1841; locate and print parish records; build your family tree through a combination of these and other resources; and set up a family history database to record and store your findings. By the end of this book you will become proficient at genealogical research. And you will be able to provide your children and future generations with a picture of how their families evolved over at least five generations.

These are the latest set of books in the Memories of a Lifetime series. Each volume offers 57 scrapbook pages. The pages can be used as they are, can be photocopied, or individual images can be downloaded from included CD. Hundreds of vintage images at your fingertips for use in scrapbook, fabric transfer, and wood crafts. Eight pages of gallery ideas are provided to demonstrate how the artwork can be used. Family Includes borders and frames that coordinate with vintage photographs; old birth certificates, ledgers, and records; family trees and genealogy charts, etc.

There have been some excellent books written about setting out to discover and write up your family history. This one is different. Although it covers the basics of how to go about your genealogical quest, its main focus is on the resources available on the Internet. It offers a step-by-step guide to tracking down those elusive relatives. It also combines an analysis of the major family history web sites with a breakdown country by country, county by county of available resources.