Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Off-Line Genealogy for Kids

by Ira Wolfman, Ira Wolfman, Tim Robinson (Illustrator)

In the ten years since the publication of Do People Grow on Family Trees? (121,000 copies in print), the Internet has completely transformed genealogy, making family history the second most popular hobby in the U.S. after gardening and genealogy the second most searched for subject on the Web. Now completely revised, updated, retitled, and filled with detailed guidance on utilizing the Internet, Climbing Your Family Tree is the comprehensive, kid-friendly genealogical primer for the 21st century, and a dramatic story of how and why our ancestors undertook the arduous voyages of immigration to this nation. It teaches kids to track down important family documents, including ships' manifests, naturalization papers, and birth, marriage, and death certificates; create oral histories; make scrapbooks of photos, sayings, and legends; and compile a family tree. A full chapter is devoted to the online search, and relevant Internet information has been incorporated into all the other chapters. Also new are more kids' genealogical stories and a reworked, easier-to-use design, and supporting the book will be a Web site that will include record-keeping pages, links to sites in the book, and more.

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001

Reviews

[Krista · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent book for an older elementary or middle school kid. Unfortunately, the online parts are pretty outdated. I'd love to see an updated version.

[Kendra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up while visiting my brother and his family. It is full of great ideas and the accompanying website has many great links and downloads to get your family started with genealogy. Great fun!!

[Bookwyrmgyrl]

This is "The Official Ellis Island Handbook". It almost seems to be a children's book, based on the cover, and I think kids would enjoy reading, but it is is also chock-full of fabulous information for adult researchers as well.