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> Books You May Find Helpful
- Alessi, Jean. Once Upon a Memory: Your Family Tales and Treasures.
Whitehall, VA; Betterway Publications, 1987). While not exactly a book
about how to create a timeline, there are lots of good questions to
ask in creating a timeline, and ideas for organizing your material.
- Buchman,
Dian Dincin. Family Fill-In Book: Discovering Your Roots. (New
York: Scholastic Inc, 1994) Great questions to ask oneself before you
create a timeline.
- Farrell,
Joanne. My Days. My Writings: A Daily Journal for 6 to 9 Year Olds.
(Waverly, IA: Shoestrings/G&R; Publishing, 1995.) Organized as a yearlong
journal with a question on each day for a young person to answer about
their life. Includes excellent questions that could generate good material
in creating a timeline.
- Perl,
Lila. The Great Ancestor Hunt: The Fun of Finding Out Who You Are.
(New York: Clarion Book, 1989) Discusses how to create a personal timeline
in Chapter Two.
- Provenzo,
Eugene F., Asterie Baker Provenzo and Peter A. Zorn, Jr. Pursuing
the Past: Oral History, Photographs, Family History and Cemeteries.
(Includes Activity Book and Teacher's Guide) Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley
Publishing Co., 1984). Activity included on how to create a timeline
of your own life.
- Weitzman,
David. My Backyard History Book. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and
Co., and Yolla Bolly Press, 1975) This book is a classic for exploring
history from a hands-on perspective, and is loaded with great ideas
for creating a personal timeline, and much more.
- Wolfman,
Ira. Do People Grow on Family Trees? Genealogy for Kids and Other
Beginners. (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1991). A wonderful
book for people of all ages, has lots of information on how to create
a personal timeline, and the questions to ask that will give you material
to put on the timeline.
- Yans-McLaughlan,
Virginia, and Marjorie Lightman. Ellis Island and the Peopling of
America: The Official Guide. (New York: The New Press, 1997) An
excellent resource for exploring immigration to America from the 1600s
to today. Includes a timeline of important dates in American immigration
history.
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