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Nancy Hendrickson Family Tree BooksFamily Tree Books is the brainchild of Nancy Hendrickson, author of Finding Your Roots Online, San Diego Then and Now, and Historic Photos of Old California..

Nancy has been a family tree climber most of her life – - thanks to the intruiging family stories told by her grandmothers, Bessie Faulkenberry and Nora Dearing. As an adult, she has traced several of her family tree lines back hundreds of years, but to her chagrin she has not been able to break through the brick wall of her Hendrickson line.

As a fulltime author, Nancy has contributed dozens of articles to many magazines and websites, and is proud to be a contributing editor at Family Tree Magazine – the #1 Family History Magazine in America.

When not researching family history, she spends time visiting historic sites in the frontier west, photographing old tombstones and cemeteries, retouching damaged family photographs, and blogging about her genealogy and history experiences at Ancestor News and Frontier Traveler.

A native of St. Joseph, Missouri, she currently lives in San Diego, California.

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