"How to do Everything with Your Genealogy"

I just finished George Morgan's comprehensive "How to do Everything with your Genealogy". In thirteen chapters, he covers the basics of beginning genealogy and getting the data on to the correct forms, research methods, advanced record types, Internet resources, alternative paths to finding the data you still need, planning successful research trips, and goes into great detail on the aspects of computerizng your data that are so essential in this day and age.

While the basics of sound research will always remain the same, reading new research books as they are published and available through your local libraries helps you sharpen your own skills, understand research methods and strategies and demonstrates the level of interest in our hobby/obsession to the library systems. (Hopefully, this influences them as they make purchase decisions.)

My favorite parts of the book gave me some new bookmarks for my computer for maps, thinking to check for local jury rolls, Gary Sharp's site with a chronological representation of natural diasters at: http://sharpgary.org/Jan1_2001_Present.html, some new international emigration sites, and worldwide library catalogs online.