38 Family Tree Research Resources by Darrel Gibbs
The resources in this 15-page publication are all FREE and focus almost exclusively in CANADA. The description states the reader will be “… getting information from Birth or Baptismal Certificates; Marriage Certificates; Death Certificates; Census Records; Ship’s Manifests or Logs; Military Records and more.”
The title is missing an essential word — “38 Family Tree CANADIAN Research Resources“. The word “Canadian” is on the cover but in the smallest print. Having no Canadian ancestors, this reviewer is grateful I obtained the book via Kindle Unlimited.
Authors, please do not do this. Some buyers will be aggravated at you, the author, and themselves for not reading the description better. You may also lose those who would appreciate a resource devoted to Canadian research. Realize that many books are acquired viewing a thumbnail image of the book cover.
The ‘booklet’, 15 pages can hardly be a book, begins the list of 38 resources on page 6 and ends on page 11. That is only SIX pages — less than 50%.
Each resource is an active link to the resource with a sentence or two stating what the researcher will find on the site. A couple had a paragraph.
Be aware that some of the links may no longer work because changes were made to that website and that is three (3) years ago. The book was published Jan 31, 2019.
Rating is due to the extremely brief descriptions of the resources and placing ‘Canadian’, an important piece of information for the reader is in the small print on the cover. Since I have had no reason to research Canadian records, I am not familiar with most of these sites. It would not be fair to deduct or add a star re the quality of the resources provided.
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