If you are lucky enough to have carried your family research to the point that your are ready to start tracing your European ancestors in the &uot;Old Country,&uot; you may not feel all that lucky!

Unfamiliarity with foreign places and languages and the vast distances between you and the subject of your searches can make even the simplest answers difficult to find.

The editors of Family Tree Magazine have addressed these problems in their brand new publication, The Family Tree Guide Book to Europe.

In the beginner-friendly style that has become Family Tree Magazine’s hallmark, The Guide Book to Europe presents information-intensive directory listings, genealogy basics and even travel guide savvy designed to put European resources at your fingertips.

The information provided within the covers of this book shows you how to get the information you need using the Internet, and then through correspondence with the appropriate European sources, and finally when all these remote options are exhausted, how to go to the source in person.

Each of the 14 chapters is devoted to a specific country or region of Europe. Some of the best writers in the field of genealogy have extensively researched each region to bring you the essential records and resources for charting your European ancestors.

Along with an introduction to each area’s history, the chapters provide an introduction to the basic how-tos of finding and using relevant records, Internet mailing lists, organizations, archives and libraries, Web sites, genealogy societies periodicals and vital records.

Included in this research are 700 Web sites to help trace these European ancestors from home, 14 historical timelines to put your family’s past in perspective, more than one hundred archives and libraries to use as resources in your own study and at least 40 maps of provinces and countries to trace the family’s locations and movements.

Among the contributing genealogists are experts such as Maureen Taylor, Sharon Carmack, Paul Milner, Linda Jonas, Ernest Thode, Dwight Radford and Kyle Betit.

You can pick up a copy of this book at your local bookseller or order directly from Family Tree Magazine at www.familytreemagazine.com

. The book is priced at $22.99 plus shipping and handling if ordered through the mail.

If you traced your family back to their arrival on our shores, take the plunge and track them &uot;across the pond&uot; with the help of this unique book. It may just be the only one of its kind to include all this information in a single volume.

DOES ANYONE KNOW …

… Rachel Hooper (1204 West Sunflower Road, Cleveland, MS 38732, 662-843-2439) is looking for information concerning her grandmother, MIRIAM HILL HOOPER. She was born 9 March or May 1870 and died 20 May 1940. She married LEVI BROOKS HOOPER on 7 November 1889. Miriam is buried at Harmony Cemetery near Edinburg, Mississippi. Her parents were FRANCIS L. HILL (born 20 Nov 1831, died 9 Dec 1913) and MARTHA A. HILL (born 15 Aug 1836, died 12 Dec 1931). They are also buried at Harmony Cemetery. Miriam had a brother, Francis L. Hill Jr., and a sister, Mattie KENNEDY. There were other siblings but their names are unknown. It is thought that Francis L. Hill Sr. came to Mississippi from Alabama and that his parents came from South Carolina. Martha A. Hill came from Georgia. Can any reader provide any other information about this family?

… Bea Egger Sullivan (115 Pine Drive, Winona, MS 38967, beasul@ayrix.net) is searching for information about her great grandfather, HARTON KENDRICK (1825-1901). He is buried in Rowan Cemetery in Lowndes County, Mississippi but is not listed in the 1850 Census for Lowndes County. His wife was SARAH ANN STANLEY who has been traced back two generations to Bibb County, Alabama. Does anyone have any more information to contribute about these people?

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