As this week’s FRPC Exceptional Bargain Offer, Family Roots Publishing is offering 3 popular genealogy books as a bundle for 65% off – or individually at 25% off. The bundle is heavy, and can’t be shipped outside of the United States & Canada.
To Purchase the bundle for just $19.20 (plus $8 p&h), Click Here.
The books are:
Give a Gift That Money Can’t Buy: Record & Preserve Your Family’s History (5th Edition)
Portrait of My Family – My Family Heritage
Directory of Family Associations, 4th Edition
Again, Sorry – we do not ship this bundle outside of the United States. Any orders placed for outside-the-USA & Canada shipping for this item will be reversed. It’s just too heavy to ship economically out of the North America.
Following are reviews of each of the three items:
Give Your Family a Gift That Money Can’t Buy – Record & Preserve Your Family’s History
In 2013, Jeffrey A. Bockman, 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, (normally $8.95) on sale for only $6.71 (25% off) through February 9 – or purchase it as part of the 65% off Getting Started bundle available through the same date.
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
Purchase Give Your Family a Gift That Money Can’t Buy: Record; Preserve Your Family’s History, 5th Edition, (normally $8.95) on sale for only $6.71 (25% off) through February 9 – or purchase it as part of the 65% off Getting Started bundle available through the same date.
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Portrait of My Family, My Family Heritage
A great gift or keepsake album to record the genealogy and family history.
This attractive hardback work contains some 136 pages, illustrated in color, pertaining to virtually every relationship, object, and activity of family life. Each page is dedicated to a separate topic, such as “The Family of My Father” or “Special Memories,” and leaves ample space thereunder for entering names, birthplaces, ages, and other appropriate information.
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? Portrait of My Family is a great solution. The book also makes a great gift, and here is why.
Portrait of My Family – My 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,
is available from Family Roots Publishing.
Table of Contents
From Generation to Generation
How to Use This book
My Genealogy
My Parent’s Courtship
My Parent’s Marriage
Father’s Family
Mother’s Family
My Foreign-Born Ancestors
The Lands of Our Ancestors
My Family Tree – fold-out Ancestral Chart
My Family
The Family of My Father
The Family of My Mother
The Family of My Paternal GrandFather
The Family of My Paternal Grandmother
The Family of My Maternal Grandfather
The Family of My Maternal Grandmother
The Families of My Paternal Great-Grandparents
The Families of My Maternal Great-Grandparents
Family Weddings
Other Religious Ceremonies in Our Family
My Family’s Religious Affiliations
Where I Have Worshipped
Special Memories
My Family’s Homes
The Schools I Have Attended
The Organizations I Have Joined
Professions, Occupations, Crafts and Trades
My Family’s Military Service Record
My Best Friends
The Pets in My Family
The Automobiles – Our Mechanical Companion
Special Things
My Prized Family Possessions
Sports I Enjoy
My Family’s Hobbies
Memorable Vacations
Family Gatherings
Cherished Traditions
The Most Outstanding Events in My Family’s History
Trials & Disasters My Family Has Faced
The Oral History of My Family
My Family’s Medical History
Vital Statistics
Photographs
Genealogical Research
National Archives [International]
Addresses
Autographs
Portrait of My Family, My Family Heritage; by F. Michael Carroll; Copyright 1978; Hardcover; 136 pp.; 8.5×11; Item# GPC8451; Reg. $10.95; Purchase at 25% off ($8.21) through midnight MST Monday, February 9, 2015 – or as a 65% off bundle through the same date.
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Directory of Family Associations – 4th Edition
About a year ago, Family Roots Publishing made a special purchase of several hundred copies of the 4th Edition of the Directory of Family Associations. The book was written by Elizabeth Petty Bentley and Deborah Ann Carl in 2001, and is the latest family association directory available. No further editions are planned at this time. Most genealogical research within the United States and much of Europe can easily be done for the last 200 years, if not much more. Figuring an average generation as 25 years, that’s eight generations of ancestors – or 510 different and unique surnames in the family tree! If you are working on that many surnames or even a small portion of that (as many of us are), information on family associations is invaluable to our research.
There are many uses for a directory of family associations, but undoubtedly the best use for it is for genealogical research – for making contact with family members, sharing information about family history, developing common ground between people of the same surname, arranging reunions, discovering who’s out there and where you connect on the family tree, and finding out where you can go with your own research. And there are a host of other uses – kin searching and heir searching, for example, determining family migration patterns, even marketing your own genealogical research. The possibilities are endless.
Based largely on data received in response to questionnaires sent to family associations, reunion committees, and one-name societies, the 4th edition of the Directory of Family Associations gives you access to a range of possibilities, offering information on approximately 6,000 family associations across the United States.
The book starts with a section on Multi-family Resources, then launches into the bulk of the book listing the 6000 associations. It literally runs from Aaldericnk through Zyrkle.
This book is an immensely useful A-Z directory of family associations giving addresses, phone numbers, contact persons, and publications (if any). The book is 12 years old, so undoubtedly some of the contact info will be bad. However, having the data that tells of an association that did exist can also be useful. So whether you’re just starting your genealogical research or already waist deep in your investigations, planning a family reunion or hoping to attend one, or simply curious about your family or your surname, the course you choose from now on may be partially governed by this indispensable directory.
Note that the reviews on the various editions of this book have been outstanding. Library Journal listed the 1991 edition as a “Best Reference Book of 1991.”
Get your copy of the Directory of Family Associations, 4th Edition at 25% off through February 9, 2015 or as part of a 65% off bundle through the same date.
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Sale ends midnight MST Monday, February 9, 2015.