Do People Grow on Family Trees?: Genealogy for Kids and Other Beginners, The Official Ellis Island Handbook

by Ira Wolfman, Michael Klein (Illustrator)

An exciting genealogical primer, do people grow on family trees? combines activities, history, photographs, illustrations, and reminiscences. Suitable for ages 8-12. 121,000 copies in print.

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 6, 1991

Reviews

[Graham Oliver]

Solid writing. Organization was not great - book interrupted itself with inserts (often full-page inserts) too often. While ostensibly for kids, would still be a great book for adult beginners. Lots of the book is dedicated to the immigrant experience, which feels misplaced to me given most people would have a hard time making it back to the immigrant stage, but there's still lots of good general genealogy material here. Especially fond of their section on interviewing.

[Anna · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book was very well written, lots of information about genealogy and family history. learn lots of new information about family history, how america became an how last names formed, etc.... very fun book to read whether you're into genealogy or not, great information, so glad I read this book!

[Barbara Lovejoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was blown away by ALL the valuable information in this book. It is a fantastic resource for anyone who wants to be involved in family history.