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Taking up where "Unpuzzling Your Past" leaves off, this guide offers fool-proof strategies from one of America's favorite genealogy authors. For fun, Croom links her proven techniques to the advice of famous fictional detectives, such as Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple.

"This handbook presents a step-by-step process for solving genealogical problems -- a methodology thirty years in the making. Developed by Anderson and perfected through his work on the Great Migration Study Project, this systematic approach considers each source, each record, and each possible linkage before making a genealogical conclusion...Examples of actual research problems and continuing case studies, accompanied by easy-to-follow diagrams,...

Follow your family tree back to its roots in Bavaria, Prussia, Württemberg and beyond! Beidler walks you through the exciting journey of researching your Germany heritage, whether your ancestors came from lands now in modern-day Germany or other German-speaking areas of Europe.