My Family Tree Workbook: Genealogy for Beginners

This genealogical primer is easily accessible to the youngest historian.

But anyone can learn the fundamental research principles and begin the search for their ancestors. It is part science, part detective story. And it may ultimately lead to years of discovery, enjoyment, and even self-knowledge.

Rosemary Chorzempa began tracing her Polish immigrant family’s roots as a teenager and now lectures on genealogy. She has designed this introductory volume as a workbook in which the reader is a participant, researcher, recorder, and pedigree-maker. Chrozempa includes her own autogiograph and family tree as examples.