...the goal of the genealogist has
traditionally been to identify and link together past generations of
ancestors into pedigrees, the goal of today's family historian is to do
that as well as to understand something of the lives and times of
specific persons, couples, or families over one or more generations.
Val D. Greenwood,
The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy.
Note: This book is a work in progress. The author has chosen to make the
chapters available here as draft copies while being written.
