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• n  successive generations of kin
• n  the study or investigation of ancestry and family history

• As a first step, study several of the dozens of good genealogy how-to books that are on the market Record or write down everything you know about yourself, your parents and your .
• For an exercise that's all about family, researching your genealogy can be an oddly lonesome affair, filled with long hours spent sifting through records and making awkward phone .
• Suddenly both the history of slavery and genealogy were national obsessions.

• family tree

News & Articles

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• North Royalton Library to help turn memories into memoirs
  Cuyahoga County Public Library Genealogy Specialist Joni Mihelich will visit the North Royalton Library June 22.
  June 13, 2013 - Sun Star Courier
• Genealogy Society to meet Tuesday
  PORT CLINTON — The Ottawa County Genealogy Society will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Ida Rupp Public Library, 310 Madison St.
  June 12, 2013 - Port Clinton News Herald
• Genealogy course “Ancestral Connections: Names, Places and Spaces” lined up for Cork
  A summer school course in the latest Irish genealogy research, “Ancestral Connections: Names, Places and Spaces”, at University College Cork is now taking bookings.
  June 10, 2013 - Irish Central

Quotes

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• Henry Louis Gates in Winston-Salem Journal (registration)
  I believe that history, whether it's African-American history or other kinds of history, starts at home,Gates said. "And in the case of genealogy it starts in your living room or in your kitchen. I think that understanding how you got to...
• Tom Joyner in Centre Daily Times
  Ever since I've had my genealogy traced, I've wanted to give others that same opportunity and our partners at Cracker Barrel had the same idea,says Tom Joyner, whose show is aired in more than 115 markets reaching eight million listeners...
• Rosanne Cash in Chicago Sun-Times
  I was in a new place and ready for it,Cash said, from her New York City home. "Dad thought that I lacked something essential about my own musical genealogy. And I think I intuited that he wasn't just giving me a list of songs. He was...