Shadows in America: A Tribute to the Multitude

by Janet L. Freeman

Overview

Lina has found herself in America's past. She doesn't yet know why or for how long. She does know how-it was because of her grandmother's necklace. Share in this young Michigan woman's adventures as she travels back in time to assist other women in choosing their own destinies that changed American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781499048193
Publisher:	Xlibris US
Publication date:	07/31/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	499 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Janet L. Freeman is a lifelong Michigander, who has travelled to various places in the United States and Canada, but still calls Michigan home. Freeman has a passion in her life called genealogy. She has traced her family back several generations, as well as for other people. "I have accurately traced my father's family back to Jamestown in the early 1600s. And I have accurately traced my maternal father's side back to the 1700s Italy. My mom's mother was born in a soddie. Genealogy takes patience. Genealogy takes time. But it is so worth it. And it is good for the brain cells. People who do genealogy know what I am talking about." She wasn't fond of history in school, but when she started looking for "dead people" and began realizing what those people went through in their daily lives, history also became a passion.

Freeman advises not to believe everything that is entered on peoples' trees. "When you do your research, if you find an original document, a copy of a document, or a derivative, then that is acceptable. I have seen a person accept another's entry as fact when it isn't. The information is used as a guide, nothing more. It is up to each individual to do his or her own research to prove or disprove. Someone has done this very thing regarding my own grandfather's mother. When I have spent much time and money to do the research, and I can't find it, then someone comes along and enters data which hasn't been proven, really irks me."

She adds, "I have scattered the names of my grandnieces and grandnephews throughout the book. Any who are born after this one, well, I guess I'll have to write another book to enter in those names."