Evidence Explained

Evidence Explained
Author: Elizabeth S Mills
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-05-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780806321370

Citation style manual for every type of source record and media.

Delaware Genealogical Research Guide

Delaware Genealogical Research Guide
Author: Delaware Genealogical Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2020-01-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578584263

The Delaware Genealogical Research Guide contains detailed descriptions of how and where to find information about Delaware ancestors. Well organized and easy to use, the guide covers more than 20 types of records; offers suggestions for further research; and features a comprehensive compendium of more than 100 local, regional, and national record repositories and resources. In addition, discussions of Delaware's history and geography add important context and explain how competing claims to the land and protracted boundary disputes affect where records might be located. Meticulously compiled and fact-checked by members of the Delaware Genealogical Society, this guide is a valuable asset for experienced as well as novice researchers.

Living Books

Living Books
Author: Janneke Adema
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0262046024

Reimagining the scholarly book as living and collaborative--not as commodified and essentialized, but in all its dynamic materiality. In this book, Janneke Adema proposes that we reimagine the scholarly book as a living and collaborative project--not as linear, bound, and fixed, but as fluid, remixed, and liquid, a space for experimentation. She presents a series of cutting-edge experiments in arts and humanities book publishing, showcasing the radical new forms that book-based scholarly work might take in the digital age. Adema's proposed alternative futures for the scholarly book go beyond such print-based assumptions as fixity, stability, the single author, originality, and copyright, reaching instead for a dynamic and emergent materiality. Adema suggests ways to unbind the book, describing experiments in scholarly book publishing with new forms of anonymous collaborative authorship, radical open access publishing, and processual, living, and remixed publications, among other practices. She doesn't cast digital as the solution and print as the problem; the problem in scholarly publishing, she argues, is not print itself, but the way print has been commodified and essentialized. Adema explores alternative, more ethical models of authorship; constructs an alternative genealogy of openness; and examines opportunities for intervention in current cultures of knowledge production. Finally, asking why it is that we cut and bind our research together at all, she examines two book publishing projects that experiment with remix and reuse and try to rethink and reperform the book-apparatus by taking responsibility for the cuts they make.

Printed Sources

Printed Sources
Author: Kory Leland Meyerink
Publisher: Ancestry.com
Total Pages: 840
Release: 1998-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780916489700

"While most genealogy books focus on original records and primary sources, this title focuses on secondary sources that have proliferated because of the growth of genealogy. It identifies and explains the vast number of published genealogical sources, acting both as a guidebook and a bibliography to the printed material in the field. The introduction alone is a treasure trove of information, and should be called Genealogy Sources 101. Coverage includes encyclopedias, gazetteers, indexes, abstracts, histories, biographies, military sources, periodicals, and much more. Appendixes include CD-ROMs for family historians, major genealogical libraries in the Inited States, and a list of genealogical publishers and booksellers. This monumental source is highlyrecommended in all libraries for the beginner or expert ".--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA.

Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary

Ancestry's Concise Genealogical Dictionary
Author: Maurine Harris
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1989
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780916489069

A quick reference book with definitions for troublesome or unfamiliar words encountered in the genealogy research process.

DNA Testing

DNA Testing
Author: The New York Times Editorial Staff
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1642821284

The Human Genome Project completed sequencing the entire human genetic code in 2003, two years ahead of schedule. That brisk pace has characterized the private genomics industry as well, with prices for personal sequencing dropping from tens of thousands to only hundreds of dollars in less than a decade. Through this collection of articles, readers will recognize how DNA testing has opened new doors in medicine and science, as well as sparked new questions about medical ethics, human ancestry, and the self.

Black Genealogy

Black Genealogy
Author: Charles L. Blockson
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1991
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780933121539

Presents the obstacles and advantages of searching for Black family history, including information about places to research, and documents and techniques used to uncover genealogical history, even though considered lost or incomplete.

Evidence!

Evidence!
Author: Elizabeth Shown Mills
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1997
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780806315430

Evidence! provides a common ground upon which all can meet, speak the same language, and share their results--reliably ...

Generations Past

Generations Past
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 1988
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

This book "is a selected list of books in the collections of the Library of Congress compiled primarily for researchers of Afro-American lineages. Included in this bibliography are guidebooks, bibliographies, genealogies, collective biographies, United States local histories, directories, and other works pertaining specifically to Afro-Americans. Emphasis is on books that contain information about lesser-known individuals of the nineteenth century and earlier, although Afro-American business and city directories published through 1959 are listed"--Introd.

A Translation Guide to 19th-century Polish-language Civil-registration Documents

A Translation Guide to 19th-century Polish-language Civil-registration Documents
Author: Judith R. Frazin
Publisher: JGSI: "The Guide"
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2009
Genre: English language
ISBN: 0961351225

This guide is designed for use with one those 19th-century Polish-language civil-registration documents that follow the Napoleonic format. The adoption of this uniform manner of document organization explains why the material in this guide is generally applicable to both Jewish and non-Jewish civil-registration documents.