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AMERICAN ANCESTORS RESEARCH GUIDES

American Ancestors (www.AmericanAncestors.org) offers quite a few specific research guides, all dowloadable online for FREE. Check out the topic list below and if your areas of genealogical interest are included, head over to their website to grab the guide! Here's the web address: https://www.americanancestors.org/tools/getting-started-series
RESEARCH GUIDE TOPICS
17th-Century Great Migration to New England
African American Genealogy
Catholic Research
Church Records
City Directories
Civil War Veteran Records
Colonial New England Research
Compiled Genealogies
County Histories
DNA
Handwriting
Irish Records
Irish Research
Massachusetts Research
Massachusetts Town Guide
New England Planters to Nova Scotia
New Hampshire Town Guide
Newspapers in Family History Research
Organizing Your Research
Passenger Arrival Lists
Proving Mayflower Ancestry
Quaker Records
Revolutionary War Records
Rhode Island Town Guide
The Basics of Genealogical Formats
Tools to Organize Your Family History
Top Tips for Family History Research
U.S. Federal Census Records
U.S. Naturalization Records
U.S. War of 1812 Records
U.S. World War I Records
U.S. World War II Records
Upstate New York Research
Vital Records
Your Family History

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