Genealogy Resources
Legacy & Artifacts
- Celebrating the Family -- The MyFamily.com Guide to
Understanding Your Family History. By the editors of
MyFamily.com. Friedman/Fairfax, 2002. An introduction to nine
areas of family history, including photography safeguards and
preservation, scrapbooking, interviewing, researching and
writing a family history, communicating with family, and
planning reunions.
- The Collections of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Online. Colonial Williamsburg's collections encompass
more than 60,000 examples of fine, decorative, mechanical, and
folk art. Included are American, British, and Continental
ceramics, glass, furniture, textiles, costumes, tools, firearms,
numismatics, metals, prints, maps and drawings from the
seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well
as outstanding examples of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and
twentieth-century American folk art.
- Fleming, Ann Carter. The Organized Family Historian: How
to File, Manage, and Protect Your Genealogical Research and
Heirlooms. Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 2004.
- Maran Graphics. Maran Illustrated: Knitting & Crocheting.
Thomson Course Technology PTR, 2005.
- Matthews, Tony. Memory Trees -- Family Trees for the
Scrapbooker. Baltimore, Maryland: Clearfield Co., 2003, 2004
reprint.
- Taylor, Maureen. Scrapbooking Your Family History.
Cincinnati: Betterway Books, 2003.
- Thomson, George. The Illuminated Lettering Kit,
Materials, Techniques, and Projects for Decorative Calligraphy.
Chronicle Books, 2004.
- War Letters. The
Legacy Project preserves soldiers' letters from wars historical
and modern.
- Wulf, Loretta. "Delving into Your Family History Through
Antique Furniture." Everton's Genealogical Helper 59:2
(March/April 2005) pages 25-29.
- Zimmerman, Bill. My Memory Quilt: A Family History Pack.
Chronicle Books, 2004. Includes 24 paper quilt squares to help
you get started.