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Finding Your Hispanic Roots $23.55 - Learn how to examine basic documents which reveal Hispanic origins through a title which covers all the types of records found in all Hispanic countries, and how to use them in a genealogical search. Any with Hispanic roots who want to learn more about family origins will find Finding Your Hispanic Roots an essential document of just how to go about the research process at home, and through overseas contacts.
Origins of New Mexico Families: A Genealogy of the Spanish Colonial Period $36.00 - For the purist needing to cite sources, this is a wonderful place to get started in order to locate the original document. For every hour of microfilm research you do, this book will save you ten.
People of the Peyote : Huichol Indian History, Religion, & Survival $26.36 - People of the Peyote explores the Huichol Indians of Mexico, who are best known for their worship of the peyote cactus. Ritually harvested each year, the peyote flower plays a central role in most Huichol observances of the annual ceremonial round. The Huichols have been the most culturally persistent indigenous group in Mexico and have maintained their pre-Christian religion with only minimal accommodation to Catholicism. Eighteen essays explore Huichol ethnography
Islam : A Short History $15.96 - The picture of Islam as a violent, backward, and insular tradition should be laid to rest, says Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of Muhammad and A History of God. Delving deep into Islamic history, Armstrong sketches the arc of a story that begins with the stirring of revelation in an Arab businessman named Muhammad.
Muhammad : A Biography of the Prophet $11.20 - Armstrong has written what is likely the most accessible biography of Muhammad available today. It gives an intriguing account of not only Mohammed's life, but also the historical context under which Islam emerged. The book provides a sound introduction to how and why the Muslim world came to be, as well as glimpse into why it has evolved into its current state.
An Anthology of Spiritual and Historical Sikh Names (Studies in Asian Thought and Religion, Vol 19) $69.95 - by Gurdev Singh
Black Indian Genealogy Research $20.50 - by Angela Walton-Raji
International Vital Records Handbook $34.95 - A complete collection of vital records application forms from the US and many other nations. Contains forms and information from all fifty states and furnishes details about records created before statewide vital records registration, and gives forms and instructions for obtaining records from some 250 countries.
Migrations : Humanity in Transition $80.00 - The first pictorial survey to extensively chronicle the current global flux of humanity, Migrations follows Latin Americans entering the United States, Jews leaving the former Soviet Union, Africans traveling into Europe, Kosovars fleeing into Albania, and many others.
Sources in the United States and Canada (The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy , Vol 1) $40.00 - The definitive guide for exploring your Jewish ancestry. The articles gathered here provide details about the genealogical resource information that exists and how to gain access to it, including libraries, archives, and communal agencies. Drawing on a variety of specialists in the field as well as on their own expertise, the editors have compiled the definitive guide for helping the Jewish family historian find source material.
How to Trace Your Jewish Roots : Discovering Your Unique History $14.95 - This book is designed for the Jewish person who knows absolutely nothing about genealogy. The author's goal is to create an easy-to-read manual that would lead a novice genealogist through the process of creating a four-to six-generation family tree. David emphasizes the importance of using the Internet, calling computers an indispensable research tool. She tells how to get online and gives a sampling of Jewish genealogy Web sites. The author explains how to collect oral histories from relatives (she includes a long and detailed interview form) and discusses the various types of documents, records, and memorabilia (including government records) that can shed light on family history.
A Student's Guide to Jewish American Genealogy $24.95 - Designed for use in grades 6-12, this important new series explores the creation of the American people while promoting the use and understanding of solid research techniques. While using the volumes in this series, young adults experience a uniquely personalized opportunity to practice the historians craft as they learn how to collect data, obtain and evaluate documents and sources, use the latest electronic tools for researching, and conduct and record eyewitness accounts of historical events in family life.
Jewish Roots in Poland : Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories $50.00 - Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories, by Miriam Weiner, is a big and beautiful book, in more ways than one. It is illustrated with hundreds of antique and contemporary photographs of Polish cities and towns; and the depth and scope of its genealogical resource lists will help many Jews find amazing truths about their heritage. It's estimated that upwards of 75 percent of American Jews can trace at least one grandparent to Poland as it was defined before the Nazi invasion of 1939.
Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova : Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories $60.00 - Between the world wars, the Soviet Union isolated its Jewish minority. They were shorn of their synagogues, schools, books and most vestiges of Jewish life. We did not know if a Jewish community still existed. As a result of the Holocaust and the wars, documentation became more and more difficult to come by. Miriam Weiner, a courageous and brilliant historian and archivist, has haunted the archives of Eastern Europe, painstakingly piecing together the world that was. Here she has memorialized hundreds of shtetls and towns through document examples and photographs.
Abraham and All the Families of the Earth: A Commentary on the Book of Genesis 12-50 $21.00 - Janzen stresses the theological themes permeating Genesis 12-50 as calling for theological reflection and religious response, and shows how the story of Israel's ancestors has continuing significance for all humankind.
cover Families in Ancient Israel $22.95 - "Families in Ancient Israel, develops an impressive social history based on thorough archaeological and anthropological spadework . . . Perdue appropriately cautions against modern impositions of uniformity on diverse materials and also against making the Bible's depictions of families into a handbook of stipulations for today's families." Four top-notch scholars of the Hebrew Bible and early Judaism provide a clear portrait of the family in ancient Israel. The book then draws important theological and ethical implications for the family today.
The Unbroken Chain : Biographical Sketches and the Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families From the 15th-2Oth Century $80.00 - by Neil Rosenstein. Hardcover - 1323 pages 2nd edition Vol 1 & 2 (1990)
Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors $15.95 - by Guy Grannum Paperback - 102 pages (December 1999)
Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies $20.00 by Montague S. Giuseppi
They Came in Ships : A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor's Ship $8.95 - There is an unbelievable amount of information packed into this book and it is organized in a way that works for both the experienced and new genealogist. This is an excellent book for find passenger lists that are not at the National Archives. A must have for finding them.
Asian American Genealogical Sourcebook (Genealogy Sourcebook Series) $85.00 - by Paula K. Byers (Editor)
A Student's Guide to Japanese American Genealogy $24.95 - The author of this fine guide has managed to pack an amazing amount of information on general genealogical research and Japanese-American genealogical research into one concise, readable volume. Yamaguchi includes an extensive list of resources that focus on Japanese culture. Approximately the first half of the book gives historical background about the immigration of Japanese to the United States . Yamaguchi sets the stage for some of the difficulties presented to today's researchers in eliciting information about these families during World War II.
A Student's Guide to Chinese American Genealogy $24.95 - Part of a ethnic-based 'family tree' series, this intends to provide high school students with guidelines for researching their Chinese background; but will appeal to many an adult for its original insights into the special challenges of investigating ethnic roots. The whole family will benefit from a fine guide which tells how to begin with a U. S. search and expand investigations to overseas roots.
In Search of Your Asian Roots : Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames $29.95 - by Sheau-yueh J. Chao
Imperial China 900-1800 : F.W. Mote $31.96 - F. W. Mote, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, has produced by far one of the most comprehensive and authoritative renditions on Chinese history ever published in English. What makes this book so great is that it combines many disparate texts (often in Chinese) into one comprehensive, chronological volume that is accessible to everyone with but a modest interest in Chinese history. It is hard to find other more complete works in English on such a vast and eventful span of China's history.
Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei an Electronic Catalogue, with CD-ROM $40.00 - CD-ROM
The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia $20.00 - This richly detailed narrative history of the Tibetan Empire in Central Asia from about A.D. 600 to 866 depicts the struggles of the great Tibetan, Turkic, Arab, and Chinese powers for dominance over the Silk Road lands that connected Europe and East Asia. Challenging the commonly held belief that East and West were largely isolated from each other until the discovery of sea routes to India and China, the book emphasizes the importance of overland contacts in the Early Middle Ages.
DK History Of The World Book And CD-ROM Pack 59.95 - CD-ROM and BOOK - The ideal source for information on the major events in world history, from the beginning of life to today, this book and CD-ROM pack brings together the accessible simplicity of a reference book with the ultimate interactive history encyclopedia. More than 1,500 full color photos and timecharts accompany the textual descriptions, as significant changes and events are laid out year-by-year and continent-by-continent. A complete reference section and glossary provide supplementary details, and the comprehensive index makes fact-finding a breeze. For more in-depth research, the Eyewitness History of the World CD-ROM puts an interactive gateway to the past at your fingertips, rich with animations, videos, maps, and authoritative articles. With a half a million words, 3,000 subject-to-subject links on 2,000 screens, 800 pictures, and hours of audio and video, you're sure to find the answers to all your questions.