When Your Ox is in The Ditch Genealogy Guide

Description

When Your Ox Is in the Ditch
Genealogical How-to Letters
Author: McDowell, Vera
Volume totaling
161
pages. Book is in excellent  Condition. Description Per The  Publisher:
Vera McDowell’s letters containing practical advice to  genealogists first appeared in the Augusta Genealogical Society’s newsletter,
Southern  Echoes
, in July 1982, and since then she has become something of a “Dear  Abby” in genealogical circles. Mrs. McDowell’s emphasis is on problem-solving;  thus all her letters bear the unstated refrain: when your ox is in the ditch  (i.e. when you’re stuck), here’s what you do! The other thing that sets her  apart is her enthusiasm for genealogy, and here her focus is on fun, personal  fulfillment, and pure joy, and her letters resonate with the excitement of the  chase.
Ten years after they first began to appear in
Southern  Echoes
, Vera McDowell’s letters were assembled in the form of a how-to  manual and grouped into chapters covering topics ranging from record-keeping and  numbering systems to courthouses and cemeteries–traditional fare with a special  McDowell twist! Under the title
When  Your Ox is in the Ditch
, the compiled letters were published to universal  acclaim in l992. With the Society’s permission, it is now being released to an  even wider audience by the Genealogical Publishing Company.
“Through the device of good-humored, chatty letters to her  cousin, Bette, Vera manages to give sound advice and detailed instruction, and  to make genealogy sound like fun–which it is.”–
The  Connecticut Nutmegger
(March 1993).
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