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      <b>
       <a>
        Walking with Your Ancestors: A Genealogist&rsquo;s Guide to Using Maps and Geography
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       <br>
       by Melinda Kashuba
       <br>
       Family Tree Books, 2005.
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      I do other things besides this web site; one of these is to volunteer at the local archives, a private organization covering the surrounding county that&rsquo;s based in my town.
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      It&rsquo;s that very question, hypothetical though it may be in my case, that Melinda Kashuba&rsquo;s book,
      <i>
       <a>
        Walking with Your Ancestors: A Genealogist&rsquo;s Guide to Using Maps and Geography
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      , answers. While Kashuba, a genealogical researcher with a Ph.D. in geographer, has the genealogical audience in mind, this book could, with a slight change in focus, easily serve as a general introduction to old maps held in American archives &mdash; how they were made, how to read them, and how to use them in your research.
     </p>
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      In slightly more than two hundred pages, Kashuba covers a lot of ground. We get a lot about how to read old maps &mdash; including how to use a gazetteer, which is basic, and how to track down place names that may have changed or moved, which is not.
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      In her introduction, Kashuba argues that
      <em>
       geography
      </em>
      is more important to genealogy than
      <em>
       history
      </em>
      is &mdash; an ostensibly strange argument, but it&rsquo;s hard to refute her assertion that place is central to genealogical research:
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      Genealogy is a geographically driven subject.
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       as
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      important if not
      <em>
       more
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      important than history to the genealogist. Knowing where your ancestors lived is the key to finding &ldquo;the really good stuff&rdquo; in those records.
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     <p>
      True enough, many of the researchers I&rsquo;ve encountered have had trouble tracking down a name because they weren&rsquo;t sure where to look. Adding maps to the search can suggest other avenues: if your great-great grandfather isn&rsquo;t in this town, perhaps he&rsquo;s in the town down the river &mdash; or perhaps he&rsquo;s got records at the county seat.
     </p>
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      Unfortunately, this book won&rsquo;t be of much help in my archives; Kashuba&rsquo;s book is American in scope. But this accessible, engaging book will no doubt be useful to genealogists across the U.S., and should probably be in every local archive&rsquo;s reference shelf.
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      I received a review copy of this book.
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