Who's Your Daddy? Second Edition: A Guide to Genealogy from Start to Finish - Paperback

by Carolyn B. Leonard (Author)

Reading "Who's Your Daddy?" is the best way to learn how to know who you are and where you came from. This guide to genealogy will be of benefit to beginners as well as experienced family researchers and even includes a chapter on getting your work published. Written with a touch of humor and serendipity, Who's Your Daddy? took thirty years of research and learning from experience in searching family history. These true life adventure examples of genealogy in action will help you put flesh on the bones of your long-lost ancestors -- help you write the stories of your family, to write your own memoir, and then will show you the best ways to get your work published. It is all here.Most burial grounds contain artistic examples of "cemetery iconology" portraying what was important to the person buried there. Who's Your Daddy? contains keys to the meaning of many icons. For example, a handshake symbol signifies a welcome into the heavenly world. Or if one hand is feminine and other other masculine, it could indicate the eternal love of a spouse. The weeping willow or a draped vase demonstrates the grief that accompanied the loss of this person.

Author Biography

CAROLYN B. LEONARD, author, editor, genealogist, public speaker, prize-winning writer, past president of the OK Writers Federation and other writing groups. She has published the e-zine "Writers Reminder" with more than a thousand subscribers since 1993. She is a member of Daughters of American Revolution, Mayflower Descendants, and Daughters of 1812, as well as other lineage, historical and genealogical societies. She is past president of the Dutch Cousins of Kentucky, and has published the DUTCH LETTERS online since 2005. She has been honored by Kentucky SAR for locating and marking graves of American Revolutionary Patriots, and was named an Honorary Kentucky Colonel by the governor. She is author of the genealogy how-to book, WHO'S YOUR DADDY?, and TO ISRAEL, WITH LOVE, a history and travel photo book. For many years she has been a commissioned writer for the magazine of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. She teaches genealogy workshops, and is a popular speaker on her favorite subjects: genealogy and writing.