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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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