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BOOK - Finding Your Chicago Ancestors, A Beginner's Guide to Family History in the City and Cook County
By Grace Dumelle

No matter where you live, if you have Chicago ancestors, and want to know anything about them, this step-by-step guide written especially for beginners is for you and your search.

Using a unique approach of helping you answer one type of question per chapter so you don't have to wade through a lot of preliminaries to launch or continue your genealogy work, DuMelle not only shares her finely-honed expertise on the basics, but slips in dozens of unusual and "back-door" tips for tracking down the toughest family details and mysteries.

Table of Contents:
  • Where Do I Start?
  • When (and Where) Was My Ancestor Born?
  • Who Were the Parents of My Ancestor?
  • Who Were the Siblings of My Ancestor?
  • When (and Who) Did My Ancestor Marry?
  • Where Did My Ancestor Live?
  • What Occupation Did My Ancestor Have?
  • When Did My Ancestor Die and Where is my Ancestor Buried?
  • When Did My Ancestor Come to America?
  • Nuts and Bolts of the U.S. Census
  • Nuts and Bolts of Newspaper Searching
  • Nuts and Bolts of Birth and Death Records
  • How to Use Machines and Catalogs
  • What to Expect at Chicago-Area Research Facilities
  • Top Web Sites for Chicago-Area Research
  • Ethnic Resources
  • Beginner's Bookshelf
    • Index
About the author:
    Author Grace DuMelle is the founder of Heartland Historical Research Service, specializing in researching house histories. Her interest in historical homes led her to an interest in the people who lived in the homes. Her busines has gained a solid reputation in its specialties of house, family and oral histories (since 1995).
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