Climbing Your Family Tree Online and Offline Genealogy for Kids: The Official Ellis Island Handbook

Climbing Your Family Tree is an engaging and thorough guide for children aged 4-11 to explore their family's heritage. It demystifies genealogy, offering practical steps for kids to research their ancestors, including how to find historical documents like ships' manifests and birth certificates, conduct oral histories, and compile a family tree. The book emphasizes both traditional research methods and modern online tools, with a dedicated chapter on internet resources. It also thoughtfully addresses "nontraditional families and special situations," ensuring broad applicability. With a foreword by Alex Haley, this handbook makes the journey of discovering one's roots an accessible and exciting adventure for young readers and their families.

Climbing Your Family Tree (The Official Ellis Island Handbook) 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 is a Web site that includes record-keeping pages, links to sites in the book, and more. Climbing Your Family Tree has been completely revised, updated, retitled, and filled with detailed guidance on utilizing the Internet. Alex Haley contributed to Climbing Your Family Tree: Online And Off-Line Genealogy For Kids by writing the foreword.