American Made

American Made

American Made

Nancy Bronte Matheny

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Lulu.com
Año de edición:
2016
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Enciclopedias y obras de consulta
ISBN:
9781312253384
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American Made: Discover your amazing ancestor at work in the USA is a light-hearted guide designed to help beginning Genealogists find ancestors using historical documents created by and about American business. American Made enlightens the reader about how historical business documents are used to prove one's pedigree and paint a colorful backstory. The guide further teaches the reader about the vast array of primary and secondary business sources available for the hunt. Most importantly, the reader learns where and how to find the good stuff, in repositories entrusted with preserving business sources online and off. American Made contains an extensive bibliography of chiefly digital sources to help the Genealogist begin the search. A tale of trial, torment, and triumph await the reader whose ancestor left a work life paper trail in search of the American Dream in American Made.

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