If you're keen to become an architectural detective, this intriguing book will get you started. Useful tips abound: if, for instance, you're looking for old photographs of your home, and you live on a main thoroughfare, check out photos of parades that might have passed by; if you're looking for information on previous owners, make sure to check for variant spellings of their surname in the relevant documents. In addition, the author steers us toward the right government offices and the appropriate library resources. . . . Wouldn't it be nice to have a copy on your shelves the next time a would-be house detective asks for help?

-Booklist

"Offers a wealth of small strategies for homeowners to discover an array of historical nuggets about their homesteads. "

-Newsday

"Judging by the letters and e-mails OHJ receives, Betsy J. Green's Discovering the History of Your House and Your Neighborhood could be a runaway best-seller."

-Old House Journal

"A fun book to read!"

-Genealogy Works Gallery

"A fun, simple, and "user friendly" step-by-step guide to researching the history of a private home. From surfing the Internet, to following a paper trail, Discovering the History of Your House is a welcome and highly recommended primer to finding out everything you want or need to know about the architectural history of your own home, but didn't know who or how to ask."

-Midwest Book Review