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Karen Clifford develops and teaches multiple online genealogy courses at colleges in California and Utah. She is an Accredited Genealogist® Professional and a Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association. She has been President/CEO of Genealogy Research Associates, Incorporated since 1997. Her years of professional research work lead to authoring college textbooks and do-it-yourself guidebooks. I met Karen several years ago when she and I worked together on the Utah Genealogical Association Southern Utah branch for a time.
She has written a new book that you are sure to enjoy. With good humor, stories, and true experiences, the author takes you on an adventure. This adventure will explore your family’s past through the original records kept by your relatives as they arrived, set up a home on a piece of land, paid taxes to protect it, went to court to defend it, and often died to preserve it for their loved ones. Along the way, you’ll enjoy stories written about your ancestors by their friends and associates who included them in their journals, histories, and newspaper articles.
Digging Deeper is more than a reference book for genealogists, family historians, and reference librarians. It is an instruction manual for any family historian. Using Internet and computerized databases as a jumping-off point, you can find jewels of evidence in other less-commonly used records-those valued for the secrets they reveal about long-forgotten families.
It is an intermediate genealogy guidebook that explains how to read early handwritten documents, draw evidence from tax, probate, newspaper, and periodical sources. Also how to connect with your ancestors using military pre-service, service, and benefit records. You will learn to use cemetery, pre-1850 federal and state population records, and census substitutes. You can prove lineages through original land grants, patents, and Federal Public Domain records. You can combine information from the above records with insights gleaned from historical documents.
All of this information can help you with your pre-census research. The book is available in full-color PDF that you can download for $24.95. Just go to www.legacyfamilytreestore.com and you should see in the left column, Download Today! Look for Digging Deeper, it is 352 pages and sure to give you a wealth of information you can try.
For more information contact Shanna S. Jones (435) 628-4900 shannasjones@msn.com