Are you looking for an inexpensive gift for someone in your family that might be interested in family history? Interested, especially if you gave them a gift that would get them started on the road to success in their personal family history?
Family Roots Publishing has assembled a bundle of two of our most popular books for genealogists, cutting the price by 25%, and bundling the shipping, dramatically lowering the cost of the volumes. The books are: Jeff Bockman’s Give Your Family a Gift That Money Can’t Buy: Record & Preserve Your Family’s History (5th Edition); and Our Family Heritage: A History of Our Family.
The books nomally sell for $19.90 (plus $8 p&h), but we’ve cut the price by 25%, making the bundle $14.93 (plus $5.50 p&h) through midnight EST (not MST) Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. Click Here to purchase the bundle.
The following reviews have been written about the two books:
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 $8.95 on a day-to-day basis.
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
The book, by itself, is available at 15% off through midnight EST (not MST) Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. Regularly $8.95, it’s just $7.61 (plus $5.50 p&h). Click here to purchase just this book, not the bundle.
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Our Family Heritage: A History of Our Family
Looking for an easy and fun way to preserve the memories in the closest branches of your family’s history? Or, looking for a great way to get others in your family involved in the work? Our Family Heritage: A History Of Our Family is a great solution. The book also makes a great gift, and here is why.
Our Family Heritage is a hardback, fill-in the blank, beautiful family history memory book. This 8.5″ x 11″ hardback book, if properly cared for, will last generations. Filled with pages beautifully printed to add a sense of style to each form. This book is a journal, a memory book, and a family history reference all in one.
Page by page, the owner will enjoy creating this long-lasting memory by hand, recording basic genealogical information along with the memories of family treasures and special family events. Forms and charts are designed for ease of use and for easy reading. There are places for both genealogical data as well as family personal and family stories. Records of family heirlooms and collections will help future generations identify important family treasures. The contents listed below show all the exciting topics and sheets this book offers for creating a new family heirloom.
The book also comes with an inserted sheet offering “helpful suggestion for filling in your book.” This included tips on preparing and adding photographs and making the most of your entries.
As a gift now for others, or as a gift you leave behind, Our Family Heritage: A History Of Our Family is available from Family Roots Publishing.
Table of Contents
- From Generation to Generation
- How to Use This book
- Our Courtship
- Our Marriage
- Husband’s Family
- Wife’s Family
- Our Children
- Our Grandchildren
- Our Foreign-Born Ancestors
- The Lands of Our Ancestors
- Our Family Tree
- Husband’s Ancestral Chart
- Wife’s Ancestral Chart
- The Family of the Husband
- The Family of the Husband’s Father
- The Family of the Husband’s Mother
- The Family of the Husband’s Paternal Grandmother
- The Family of the Husband’s Paternal Grandfather
- The Family of the Husband’s Maternal Grandfather
- The Family of the Husband’s Maternal Grandmother
- The Family of the Husband’s Great Grandparents
- The Family of the Wife
- The Family of the Wife’s Mother
- The Family of the Wife’s Paternal Grandmother
- The Family of the Wife’s Paternal Grandfather
- The Family of the Wife’s Maternal Grandfather
- The Family of the Wife’s Maternal Grandmother
- The Family of the Wife’s Great Grandparents
- Family Weddings
- Other Religious Ceremonies in Our Family
- Our Family’s Religious Affiliations
- Where We Have Worshipped
- Special Memories
- Our Family’s Homes
- The Schools We Have Attended
- The Organizations We Have Joined
- Professions, Occupations, Crafts and Trades
- Our Family’s Military Service Record
- Our Best Friends
- The Pets in Our Lives
- Automobiles—Our Mechanical Companions
- Special Things
- Our Prized Family Possessions
- Sports We Enjoy
- Our Hobbies
- Memorable Vacations
- Family Gatherings
- Cherished Traditions
- The Most Outstanding Events in Our Family’s History
- Our Family’s Medical History
- Our Vital Statistics
- Photographs
- Genealogical Research
- Addresses
- Autographs
The book, by itself, is available at 15% off through midnight EST (not MST) Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. Regularly $10.95, it’s just $9.31 (plus $5.50 p&h). Click here to purchase just this book, not the bundle.
The books nomally sell for $19.90 (plus $8 p&h), but we’ve cut the price by 25%, making the bundle $14.93 (plus $5.50 p&h) through midnight EST (not MST) Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. Click Here to purchase the bundle.
