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Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Off-line Genealogy for Kids | 
 enlarge | Author: Ira Wolfman
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 397104
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Age: 8 - 12 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 8.2 x 0.7
MPN: 12539
ISBN: 0761125396
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.1
UPC: 019628125392
EAN: 9780761125396
ASIN: 0761125396
Publication Date: October 1, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Climbing Your Family Tree is filled with detailed guidance on utilizing the Internet for genealogy. The Internet has completely transformed genealogy, making family history the second most popular hobby in the U.S. after gardening and genealogy the second most searched for subject on the Web. Climbing Your Family Tree is the comprehensive, kid-friendly genealogical primer for the 21st century, and a dramatic story of how and why our ancestors undertook the arduous voyages of immigration to this nation. It teaches kids to track down important family documents, including ships' manifests, naturalization papers, and birth, marriage, and death certificates. It tells how to create oral histories. It shows how to make scrapbooks of photos, sayings, and legends. It tells how to compile a family tree. A full chapter is devoted to the online search, and relevant Internet information has been incorporated into all the other chapters. Also new are more kids' genealogical stories and a reworked, easier-to-use design, and supporting the book will be a Web site that will include record-keeping pages, links to sites in the book, and more.
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| Customer Reviews:
Packed with tips on how to become an ancestor detective November 15, 2002
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Kids are invited to become sleuths into family history with Climbing Your Family Tree: Online And Off-Line Genealogy For Kids, a lively title, packed with tips on how to become an ancestor detective. From conducting interviews with family members to tracking down naturalization records, birth certificates, and regional history, Climbing Your Family Tree will appeal to all young readers who become fascinated with the fine art of genealogy.
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