Genealogy Online, 7th Edition (Consumer)
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Author: Elizabeth Powell Crowe
List Price: $24.99
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ISBN: 0072229780
Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill (29 July, 2003)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 820,447
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Good & Bad points..
Not so suprising that there's such disparity in the reviews of this book. Especially since most every review I read so far was true.This book is good if: you are a genealogist NEW to the net. A lot of ground is covered, in terms of what kinds of software is needed (over an above the venerable genealogical database), as well as how to act/speak/do online. This book is bad if: you've been online for more than a week. Too much ground is covered... well... look at the paragraph above... :) I've found that some of the information she presents is a bit dated, but not so much so that a new user will terribly embarrass themselves by relying on it. Overall, for myself (as a computer consultant of 15+ years) it did have some information to impart. Not necessarily enough to make this a "must have", but worth a read and recycle.
Rating: 5 out of 5
All you need to get started
I disagree with the review that says it's too American. There is a chapter on international genealogical resources and in the chapters on RootsWeb, FamilySearch and general search sites it shows how to search for genealogies beyond North America. In all it's a good book to get you started in online genealogy.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Technologically Inept and Too American-centric
I found this book a real disappointment. Anybody with more than rudimentary Web surfing skills with the ability to type "family history" in a decent search engine is likely to get more useful information than from this book.For a "fifth edition", I expected a technically more competant exploration of geneological sources worldwide, rather than a book which devotes pages covering such material as spam email addresses, emoticons (i.e. "smileys"), and a lot of material which covers Web surfing basics. I would have liked to have seen more "meat" on how to get the most out of the online sources listed in the book. Much of my ancestry of British + European origin, and again I was disappointed by the relative lack of information on the wealth of online info sources in this area that are available. The American-centric approach is a good one if your family has been in the States for several generations, but unless you're a native American, chances are good you have roots elsewhere. Save your money, read the reviews here, and find a book that will better serve you in your geneological search.
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