Reference - Genealogy & Heraldry

Family Ancestry Tracker and Genealogy Workbook - Makes a Great Family Historian Gift - 8.5x11 - 90 Pages Create a detailed family history and a lasting legacy with this ancestry tracker and genealogy workbook. Use this family tree journal to document your ancestry searches,...

This is the world's first-ever 12 generation family tree notebook! This antique-style book has room for you to record the first 4,095 people in your family line. (That's not a typo. There's actually room to list thousands of relatives!) This journal contains everything you...

Create a meaningful legacy for future generations with this step-by-step guide to gathering and sharing your family history, packed with inspirational, creative, and practical advice from a leading oral historian and museum curator. A parent celebrates a birthday. A best friend moves away. A...

They left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The descendants of Scotsmen who had colonized the Irish Kingdom of Ulster, they lived for several generations on Irish soil before...

An estimated 350,000 Catholic women religious (nuns and sisters) professed their vows to various religious orders in the United States between 1790 and 1900. The stories of these women are largely forgotten, hidden in scattered archives, obscured by name changes and frequent relocations, fading...

Your Patriotic Guide to Old GloryThis handsome guide to the American flag is a concise collection of the history and etiquette of the U.S. flag in an elegant hardcover edition. The book includes details of the laws relating to the flag as described in...

Have you ever wanted to create your own autobiography or wished you could read about the life of a relative or friend? The Book of Myself is a do-it-yourself memoir that helps you record and preserve the experiences, relationships, and lessons that define you....

The Book of Ulster Surnames has over 500 entries of the most common family names of the nine county province of Ulster, with reference to thousands more.It gives the meaning and history of each name, its original form, where it came from - Ireland,...

Since the early 2000s, genealogy has become a lucrative business, an accelerating online industry, a massive data mining project, and fodder for reality television. But the fact remains that our contemporary fascination with family history cannot be understood independently of the powerful technological tools...

A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knight"A carefully researched, concise, readable, and entertaining account of an institution that remains a part of the Western imagination." --Los Angeles TimesBorn out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored...

The early 17th Century was a time of great turbulence in our society, but also of continuity. Most importantly to us, it was a time of diligent record keeping which we can access today to understand better where we have come from. From the...

THE WORLD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FLAGS An illustrated guide to international flags, banners, standards and ensigns, with 1400 color illustrations Throughout the ages flags have been a means of cultural and national identity, communication, and a means of representation for groups and associations. Compiled by...

Explore your ethnic German heritage from the comfort of your own computer! This revised 2nd edition highlights important German resources on popular genealogy websites including Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org, as well as lesser-known resources such as Archion.de, Matricula.eu and the massive Germany-based site Compgen.de. With...

FamilySearch.com is a vast treasure trove of genealogical sources from North America and around the world containing over 20 billion records with 2.5 billion new records added annually. This guide teaches everyone how to find records and other resources they need to be successful...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests. Why is there a devil shown on the crest of Manchester United? Which club's crest motto is 'To Dare Is To Do'? And whose emblem depicts a bear and a...

UPDATED EDITION!!You don't have to learn everything about genetic genealogy before asking specific questions of your DNA!That's the premise of Diahan Southard's brand new book, Your DNA Guide - the Book.DNA test results from AncestryDNA, 23andMe and other companies can reveal more than ethnicity...

You don't have to learn everything about genetic genealogy before asking (and answering!) specific DNA questions.That's the premise of Your DNA Guide -the Book, a unique new approach to learning genetic genealogy. Instead of learning more-than-you-need-to-know in textbook style, you'll choose a specific DNA...