Hi everybody, I thought I would pass this on as a Christmas gift for all you people who are writing or who are going to write a family history. Some of these books may help you get a more intimate understanding of just how our ancestors lived. It was quite different from the way most of us live today. Enjoy! Phil Turner Everyday Life in America: A Bibliography Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943. * Colonial folkways : a chronicle of everyday life in early America / by Charles M. Andrews. -- Toronto : Glasgow, Brook ; New York : United States Publishers Association, 1975. vii, 256 p. ; 18 cm. -- (The Yale chronicles of America series ; 9) Includes index. ISBN 0-911548-08-4 LCCN: E162 .A57 1975 Dodds, John W. (John Wendell), 1902- * Everyday life in twentieth century America, by John W. Dodds. Edited by Louis B. Wright. New York, Putnam {1966, c1965} 254 p. illus., facsims., ports. 23 cm. LCCN: E169 .D6 Green, Harvey, 1946- * The uncertainty of everyday life, 1915-1945/ Harvey Green. -- 1st ed. -- New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1992. x, 262 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. -- (The Everyday life in America series) ISBN 0-06-016296-1 (cloth) : $28.00 ($38.00 Can.) LCCN: E169 .G83 1992 Hawke, David Freeman. * Everyday life in early America / David Freeman Hawke. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Harper & Row, c1988. xii, 195 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. -- (The Everyday life in America series) Includes index. ISBN 0-06-015856-5 : $16.95. ISBN 0-06-091251-0 (pbk.) : $9.95 LCCN: E162 .H3 McKinstry, E. Richard. * Personal accounts of events, travels, and everyday life in America : an annotated bibliography / compiled by E. Richard McKinstry. -- 1st ed. -- Winterthur, Del. : Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, c1997. xx, 236 p., {12} p. of plates : ill. ; 23cm. ISBN 0-912724-39-0 LCCN: Z1236 .M25 1997 E161 Sutherland, Daniel E. * The expansion of everyday life, 1860-1876 / Daniel E. Sutherland. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Harper & Row, c1989. xiii, 290 p., {24} p. of plates : ill. ; 22cm. -- (The Everyday life in America series) Includes index. ISBN 0-06-016023-3 : $21.95 LCCN: E168 .S957 Taylor, Dale, 1956- * The writer's guide to everyday life in Colonial America / Dale Taylor. -- Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c1997. 296 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. "From 1607-1783"--Cover. ISBN 0-89879-772-1 (alk. paper) LCCN: E162 .T26 Walker, Robert Harris, 1924- * Everyday life in Victorian America, 1865-1900 / by Robert H. Walker. -- Reprint ed. 1994 with corrections. -- Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Pub. Co., 1994. 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Previously published: Everyday life in the age of enterprise, 1865-1900. New York : Putnam, {1967}. Includes index. ISBN 0-89464-297-9 LCCN: E166 .W24 1994 Wolf, Stephanie Grauman. * As various as their land : the everyday lives of eighteenth century Ameicans / Stephanie Grauman Wolf. -- 1st ed. -- New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1993. p. cm. -- (The Everyday life in America series) Includes index. ISBN 0-06-016799-8 (cloth) : $8.00 LCCN: E162 .W83