Unearth your family's past by mining the global wealth of digital and print ancestry records

In How to Do Everything Genealogy, award-winning researcher and genealogy writer George G. Morgan shows how to start and continue your family history research using traditional records and techniques, as well as the full array of online databases, digitized records, social networks, and other tools. Learn how to organize and create your family tree; find documents about your family; research census documents, military service records, and land and property rolls; plan a successful genealogy research trip; evaluate sources; and other vital skills to help you uncover and illuminate your family's story.

Structure an effective research strategy

Locate and access genealogy resources for U.S., Canadian, UK and Ireland, and Australian research

See illustrations of scores of sample documents

Get past brick walls and dead ends in your research

Place your ancestors in geographical and historical context

Access libraries, archives, and other repositories online

Learn the most efficient Internet search techniques

Research and verify ancestors using genetic genealogy (DNA)

Use social networking sites and collaboration techniques

Discover and use alternative research paths to locate difficult-to-find records

Learn to integrate your research by reviewing a real case study

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