Shaking the family tree : blue bloods, black sheep, and other obsessions of an accidental genealogist / by Buzzy Jackson.
Author: Jackson, Buzzy.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
ISBN: 9781439112991 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
1439112991 (trade pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439149263 (ebook)
1439149267 (ebook)
Description: p. cm.
Subject: Jackson, Buzzy.
Jackson, Buzzy Family.
Jackson, Buzzy Travel United States.
Genealogy Social aspects United States.
Genealogy United States Psychological aspects.
United States Genealogy.
Notes: "A Touchstone book."
Contents: Ask yourself why you're doing this, or, Genealogy for beginners -- In which they see dead people and I stick to the living, or, Joining the Boulder Genealogical Society and interviewing my family -- Why you should interview your relatives and go to your high school reunion, or, Rust never sleeps -- CSI: Lido deck : the genealogy cruise, part 1 -- Beaches and Burke's peerage : the genealogy cruise, part 2 -- Information wants to be free, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love DNA testing -- Get back to where you once belonged, or, Hitting the road to Alabama with cousin Mooner -- The mountain and the cloud, or, A pilgrimage to Salt Lake City's Family History Library -- Ask yourself why you're doing this--and keep asking.