Step-by-step illustrated guidebook and comprehensive resource directory. Discovering your family roots and story can be a life-changing experience. Learning about your ancestors, and how they met life’s challenges, can bring new perspective and understanding to your own life, and renewed strength to keep going. This new Fifth Edition is an updated version to help keep you abreast of the dynamic changes and progress — and guide you step-by-step in discovering your family roots and stories. It will empower you with wonderful new resources not conveniently found elsewhere, to make it easier to connect to your beloved ancestors.