Give Your Family a Gift That Money Can’t Buy: Record & Preserve Your Family’s History

After more than five years, Jeffrey A. Bockman, has published a major update to his popular book, Give Your Family a Gift That Money Can’t Buy: Record & Preserve Your Family’s History. Now in its fifth edition, this fantastic primer covers all the basics needed for the novice to get started with family history research. Sometimes genealogists forget an important part of family history research, leaving their own story behind. Bockman created this book to guide and inspire anyone with an inkling of interest into their own past, to help search it out and leave both it and their own stories behind for future genealogists.

In this book Bockman covers all the basics, for example:

• Forms to record the basic facts
• Saving  documents future researchers will need
• Identifying people in photographs
• Preservation
• Finding and telling family stories
• Conducting your own research

This fifth edition is a major revision, adding over five additional years of experience and new resources. New for the fifth edition:

• More family stories and photographs
• Newer sources
• More online resources
• A new section on searching techniques
• Comments about genealogy travel with examples
• Mini case study (to give hope to those who have a relative that disappeared)

The book is organized for easy reading with plenty of examples to help the beginner get started. If you know someone looking to get started with family history or  hoping to help someone develop and interest in their families stories, then this book would help them in the process.

Not only is this book one of the best primers available, it is priced affordably. Family Roots Publishing has Give Your Family a Gift That Money Can’t Buy: Record & Preserve Your Family’s History, 5th Edition, for only $8.86.

Table of Contents

Introduction

• About the author
• Introduction

Family Facts

• Identify family members and key events
• Recording information on standardized forms
  • Family Group Sheet
  • Ancestor Chart

Home Sources

• Supporting documents that help to provide the necessary proof
• List of what to use, keep, and preserve
• Important home sources
• Bockman family home sources

Photographs

• Help turn names and dates into real people
• Identify the people, the time, and the place

Preservation

• Saving items for future generations
• Paper & document preservation
• Photo preservation

Family Stories

• Can only be told by someone who was a part of it
• Timeline of events
• Bockman family history

Organizing It All

• Assembling all of the information

Family History Research

• How to start researching your family
  • Vital records
  • Wills & probate records
  • Cemetery records
  • Newspapers/obituaries
  • Census records
  • Other records
  • Immigrants
  • Didn’t find it in the index
  • Genealogy travel
  • Case Study: Finding Alvar a not so great dane

Our Family

• Title page
• Guidelines for filling in your forms
  • Three family group sheets
  • One ancestor charts
  • Two timeline pages
  • Notes page