Hidden Sources: Family History in Unlikely Places

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Discover facts about your ancestors in unexpected places--some right under your nose! Now, anyone wanting quick, easy-to-access information about how to find their ancestors will be immediately pointed in the right direction. In Hidden Sources, first-time, part-time, and even full-time researchers will find many little-known sources that may contain information about their ancestors' lives.

Rather than lengthy descriptions of records, readers will discover short explanations that help them determine immediately whether or not a given record contains the information they need.

Get an overview of more than 100 sources, including:

- Adoption Records
- Holocaust Records
- Coroner's Inquests
- Licenses
- Orphan Asylum Records
- Slavery Records
- Court Records
- Patent Records
- Diaries and Journals
- and dozens more!

Author Laura Szucs Pfeiffer provides clues to the location of these little-used records and a list of books with further information about each type. And if you enjoy using the Internet in your research, the author has also included URLs (Web site addresses) to sites with further information about these "hidden sources." With these tools, anyone can research their family history without becoming a full-time genealogist, and without interrupting an already busy schedule, because the needed-hidden-solutions are now in a single source.

Family history researchers are accustomed to searching among vital records, censuses, and other commonly used sources. But there are any number of more-obscure sources that can lead researchers to vital information, and Obscure Sources: Great Clues in Hidden Places will introduce you to them.

Bankruptcy records, special censuses, employment records, and coroners' records are only a few of the kinds of records you can turn to when other sources prove unfruitful.

Obscure Sources is an overview of a large number of sources that are often overlooked. It discusses where these records can be found, offers some options for locating these records through the Internet, and provides a selected bibliography of background information and methodology.