Description
Searching for Dead People
A Practical Guide to Evidence-Based Family History
Finding ancestors has never been easier. Proving them has never been more important.
In the digital age, genealogy is driven by hints, automated trees, and one-click connections. With a few taps, you can extend your family line back centuries. It feels effortless. It feels magical.
It is also dangerously easy to get wrong.
Searching for Dead People is a practical, clear-eyed guide to building a family history grounded in evidence rather than assumption. Written for beginners and developing researchers alike, this book teaches you how to think like a historian, evaluate records properly, and construct a family tree you can defend with confidence.
Inside, you will learn how to:
• Distinguish between a source and the information it contains
• Navigate civil registration, census records, and parish registers
• Evaluate conflicting evidence
• Use wills, Poor Law records, newspapers, and military files
• Break through brick walls without guessing
• Organise and preserve your research securely
• Build a legacy your descendants can trust
This is not a book about collecting names.
It is a book about building proof.
If you want to move beyond flashing hints and unsourced trees — and start constructing a documented, defensible family history — this is your compass.
Details
Publisher - BookVAULT Publishing
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Denise E. Bull
Published Date - 2026-02-27
ISBN - 9781807386030
Dimensions - 24.4 x 17 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 118
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