After many months of research and writing, my first book in this series, Paragenealogy: Identifying Your Ghosts, is more than half completed.
It’s on schedule for publication in 2012.
Keep checking this site for updates, later in October 2011.
Despite my best efforts to focus on completing the first Paragenealogy book in this series, the illustrations — the last step in preparing the manuscript for publication — are taking longer than I expected.
The illustrations are important. For example, it’s easier for me to show the reader what a census record looks like than to explain it in text.
The scan above is from an 1870 census record. The people are listed, house by house, on each street. The listings tell you the person’s name, how old he or she was at the time of the census, gender, race, and what the person did for a living.
If you’re trying to figure out who’s haunting a house, it helps to know who lived there.
Most census records tell you a lot more; I explain that in the book. This is just a partial illustration, to fit this webpage.
I could rush the book to meet my deadline; I’d rather do this the right way, and present a foundational and complete book that’s genuinely useful for all levels of paranormal research.
So, I’m aiming for a release date in early 2012, after completing work on two other books, including the expanded and updated (mid-2011) Kindle version of Is Your House Haunted? I’ll keep you updated as I continue my work.
During the weekend of 14 – 16 May 2010, I spoke at the G.H.O.S.T.S. conference in Ontario, Canada.
On Sunday, I presented a paragenealogy workshop and provided a very basic overview of the process and most popular resources.
My handout from that workshop is available as a free download in PDF format. (You can read it with any PDF reader, including free Adobe Reader.)
Paragenealogy Notes by Fiona Broome
Those notes are an outline of the information in my first book in this series, Paragenealogy: Identifying Your Ghosts.
I’m continuing my research, and dictating the rest of this first book right now. It should be available at Amazon.com in 2012.
Later books will cover some of the finer points of paragenealogy, such as overcoming “dead ends.” (No pun intended.)
This first one provides the basics, and they’re all most researchers will need to identify who their ghosts are, and why they haunt.