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1.	Beard, Timothy Field. 
	How to find your family roots / by Timothy Field Beard, with
	Denise Demong. -- New York : McGraw-Hill, c1977. -- xv, 1007 p. 
	CS16 .B35 <LH&G>

  	Provides historical background in brief and lists the major
	archives, libraries, historical societies, and books of interest
	to genealogists for every country.

  
2.	Kemp, Thomas Jay. 
	International vital records handbook / Thomas Jay Kemp. --
	[Updated &  enl.]. -- Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1990. --
	ix, 355 p. : chiefly  forms. 
	CS42.7 .K46 1990 <LH&G>
	Rev. ed. of: Vital Records Handbook. 1988. 

  	Covers sixty-seven countries and territories with procedures
	for obtaining vital records and, in most instances, includes a
	facsimile of the appropriate form, which may be photocopied.
	Canada, English-speaking Caribbean, British Isles, Australia, New
	Zealand, South Africa, and Europe are included.

 
3.	World Conference on Records (1980 : Salt Lake City, Utah). 
	World Conference on Records : preserving our heritage, August
	12-15, 1980 -- [Salt Lake City] : Corporation of the president of
	the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, c1980. -- 13 v.
	: ill. 
	CS2 .W65 1980 <LH&G> 

  	Partial Contents: v. 4., pt. 2. North America including some
	Canadian material -- v. 5-6. pt. 1-2. Britain -- v. 7.
	Continental Europe -- v. 8.  Scandinavia -- v. 9. Latin America
	and Iberia -- v. 10. Australia and Polynesia -- v. 11. Asia and
	Africa -- v. 13. -- Index to all volumes. 
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