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Tracing Your Family History on the Internet

by Chris Paton
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Updated edition: A genealogist's practical guide to researching family history online while avoiding inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information.

The internet has revolutionized family history research—every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating become available. Never before has it been so easy to research family history and to gain a better understanding of who we are and where we came from.

But, as British genealogist Chris Paton demonstrates in this second edition of his straightforward, practical guide, while the internet is an enormous asset, it is also something to be wary of. For this edition, Paton has checked and updated all the links and other sources, added new ones, written a new introduction, and substantially expanded the social networking section. As always, researchers need to take a cautious approach to the information they acquire on the web. Where did the original material come from? Has it been accurately reproduced? Why was it put online? What has been left out and what is still to come?

As he leads researchers through the multitude of resources that are now accessible online with an emphasis on UK and Ireland sites, Chris Paton helps to answer these questions. He shows what the internet can and cannot do—and he warns against the various traps researchers can fall into along the way.
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Publisher: Pen & Sword Books

Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 31, 2020

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781473831919
  • Release date: January 31, 2020

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781473831919
  • File size: 27624 KB
  • Release date: January 31, 2020

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
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subjects

Computer Technology Reference Nonfiction

Languages

English

Updated edition: A genealogist's practical guide to researching family history online while avoiding inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading information.

The internet has revolutionized family history research—every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating become available. Never before has it been so easy to research family history and to gain a better understanding of who we are and where we came from.

But, as British genealogist Chris Paton demonstrates in this second edition of his straightforward, practical guide, while the internet is an enormous asset, it is also something to be wary of. For this edition, Paton has checked and updated all the links and other sources, added new ones, written a new introduction, and substantially expanded the social networking section. As always, researchers need to take a cautious approach to the information they acquire on the web. Where did the original material come from? Has it been accurately reproduced? Why was it put online? What has been left out and what is still to come?

As he leads researchers through the multitude of resources that are now accessible online with an emphasis on UK and Ireland sites, Chris Paton helps to answer these questions. He shows what the internet can and cannot do—and he warns against the various traps researchers can fall into along the way.
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Computer Technology Reference Nonfiction