Finding My Way: Researching Your Ancestor in the City - focuses on record sources which help genealogists follow peo ple in urban environments (city directories\, land records\, Sanborn and o ther urban maps\, building permits\, and censuses). With an emphasis on us ing a research journal to correlate data and resolve \;same-named peop le.
\nJessica Fontana is an experienced genealogist with more than 1 8 years of expertise\, proficient in research across the Southern\, Midwes t\, Great Lakes\, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. She specializes in African-American family history and in tracing Hungarian Catholic and Refo rmed Church families in both U.S. and Hungarian records. She utilizes DNA analysis to solve complex cases and validate historical records. A former researcher for Ancestry ProGenealogists\, she now runs her own genealogy c onsulting business. Jessica is a member of the APG and is in the final sta ges of completing her portfolio for accreditation with the Board for Certi fication of Genealogists.
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