Your Story. Restore Your Family Tree from the 17th Century

“THE HISTORY OF YOU” is an interactive guide for independent research into family history. A desk reference-handbook for studying your genealogy.

This is the first edition on researching family history. A person’s family tree contains 126 direct ancestors across 6 generations! Now you can learn not only their names, but also their fates, and connect your past with the present and the future. Makes genealogy accessible to everyone. Simple steps will help you create a plan for your own research: analyze personal documents and photographs, find information about ancestors on the Internet, obtain data from archives and collections, and create and organize your family tree. Includes recommendations from more than 40 expert practitioners.

The team of the “Project Life,” our friends and colleagues—historians, genealogists, archivists, designers, journalists, heralds—spent many months working together on this book. We will teach you methods of working with historical documents and archives and help you navigate the genealogical search process.

Family history is a way of getting to know yourself. Behind names and dates of our ancestors, behind echoes of their past—about which many of us know nothing—there are entire lives with big and small events that together formed the puzzle of our own life. This book will be your assistant in researching your genealogy.

Together with you, we’ll plot a route from an old document in grandma’s drawer to discoveries of the 17th century. We’re sure that a bold step into the past will bring bright impressions to your whole family, bring loved ones together, and begin research in which “The History of You” will surely find its continuation. Enjoy your exciting journey!