University Libraries Faculty & Staff Book Gallery
Genealogy: A Practical Guide for Librarians
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Description
Commercials for the largest subscription database indicate that the process of genealogy is simple—you just “plug in” what you know, and the database does the rest! Those ads might sell subscriptions, but they are misleading. Getting beyond that “low-hanging fruit” is not so easy; collecting the records and data needed to delineate a family tree accurately requires time, organization, and informed searching. Records are available from many places, and finding them is never a “one-stop shopping” experience. So how does the new researcher identify which resources meet his or her specific research needs? And how can libraries and librarians best help this new generation of genealogists?
ISBN
978-0810891500
Publication Date
4-2-2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Keywords
family tree, genogram
Disciplines
Archival Science | Genealogy | Library and Information Science
Recommended Citation
Pennavaria, Katherine, "Genealogy: A Practical Guide for Librarians" (2015). University Libraries Faculty & Staff Book Gallery. 33.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlps_book/33
Comments
Katherine Pennavaria has been a faculty librarian at Western Kentucky University since 2000. She writes a column on genealogy for Kentucky Libraries and has researched her own family extensively over the past several years. She has done genealogy-related public presentations on immigration records, indexing problems, subscription-database options, and DNA-testing.