American and General Genealogy

_____. The Handy Book for Genealogists: United States of America. 8th edition. Logan, UT: The Everton Publishers, Inc., 1991. x + 326 pages. County Index. Migration Trails. Maps.

Croom, Emily Anne. The Genealogist's Companion and Sourcebook Cincinnati, OH: Betterway Books, 1994. 229 pages. Footnotes. Appendices. Index.

Greenwood, Val D. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. 3rd edition. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000. xiv + 662 pages. Index.

Westin, Jeane Eddy. Finding Your Roots: How Every American Can Trace His Ancestors - at Home and Abroad. New York: Ballantine Books, 1977. x + 291 pages. Selected Bibliography. Appendices. Index.

Writing About Your Ancestors

The following four books are about writing and publishing material on your family, not just doing the research.

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. Italian-American Family History: A Guide to Researching and Writing About Your Heritage. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997. 142 pages. Bibliography.

Christian, Peter. Web Publishing for Genealogy. 2nd edition. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000. 73 pages. Index.

Dixon, Janice T., Ph.D. Family Focused: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Your Autobiography and Family History. Wendover, NV: Mount Olympus Publishing, 1997. 350 pages. Bibliography. Index.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence: Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997. 124 pages. Bibliography. Index.

As a bonus, here's a classic about writing formal papers and related documents.

Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. 6th edition. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. ix + 308 pages. Selected Bibliography. Index.

Three Books on Country-Specific Genealogy

Baxter, Angus. In Search of Your German Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in the Germanic Areas of Europe. Third edition. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994. iv + 114 pages. German Genealogical Associations in North America. Bibliography. Index.

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. Italian-American Family History: A Guide to Researching and Writing About Your Heritage. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997. 142 pages. Bibliography.

Grenham, John. Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: The Complete Guide. Second Edition. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999. xxii + 374 pages.

Four Books on Internet Genealogy

Christian, Peter. Web Publishing for Genealogy. Second edition. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000. 73 pages. Index.

Howells, Cyndi. Netting Your Ancestors: Genealogical Research on the Internet. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997. 182 pages. Index.

Kemp, Thomas Jay. Virtual Roots: A Guide to Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1997. xix + 279 pages.

Roberts, Ralph. Genealogy via the Internet: Tracing Your Family Roots Quickly and Easily: Computerized Genealogy in Plain English. Alexander, NC: Alexander Books, 1998. 192 pages. Index.

Some Comments on Netting Your Ancestors

Howells, Cyndi. Netting Your Ancestors: Genealogical Research on the Internet. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1997. 182 pages. Index.

There is nothing like dipping into an old book to show you how much things things have changed in twelve years. That rate of change is, in fact, what makes a book published in 1997 "old."

Here is a sentence from a section on Web tools: Ms. Howells points out that you will need,

"2. A dialer software application for your computer. Windows 95 comes with a dialer resident in the program."

Wow! Even I have had DSL for over a year now, and dial-up connections seem a little archaic now.

But while connection convenience and speed has changed, the 1997 instructions for using a browser have help up pretty well. Except that you may not be able to find anyone with a Netscape browser anymore.

There's a reference to Prodigy, and that's gone, too. In fact, the biggest area of change in the past twelve years is probably in the specific sites and utilities. Here is Cyndi's list of eight top search engines:

AltaVista
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
DejaNews
http://www.dejanews.com/
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com/
InfoSeek Ultra
http://ultra.infoseek.com/
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/
Web Crawler
http://webcrawler.com/
WhoWhere?
http://www.whowhere.com/
Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/

No Google!

I suggest you try those eight sites to see how many of them are still functional.

Knight Family Investigations

I trace my lineage from Knights who settled in the Northeastern United States in the 17th Century, and probably lived in Maine. My ancestors moved out of Maine to Ohio, and then their descendants moved to Indiana. My grandfather, Alva (or Alvah) Connor Knight, moved to Mississippi in the late 19th Century.

Just to give an impression of the moving ways of the Knights, my grandfather was born in Indiana; my father was born in Mississippi; I was born in Washington (the state, not the district); my son was born in North Carolina; and my grandson was born in Illinois.

I intend to use this blog as a clearing house for information about the Knight family, starting with the ones on whom I have already gathered some information. Knight is an occupational name, so it was a not-uncommon name in England. It is a fairly common name in the United States, and there are many wholly distinct families with the name of Knight.

Step 1. Me.

I am Glenn Alden Knight.

I was born 1 January 1947.

I was born in Seattle, Washington, in King County.

I graduated from Newport High School in Newport, Washington, in Pend Oreille County, in 1964.

I received the Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Eastern Washington State College (now Eastern Washington University) in 1969.

I received the Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Calgary in 1971.

I now reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County.