| | Ask Yourself Why You're Doing This; or, Genealogy for Beginners | p. 1 |
| | They See Dead People But I Stick to the Living; or, Join Your Local Genealogical Society | p. 18 |
| | Interview Your Relatives and Go to Your High School Reunion; or, Rust Never Sleeps | p. 39 |
| | CSI: Lido Deck: The Genealogy Cruise, Part I | p. 61 |
| | Beaches and Burke's Peerage; or, the Genealogy Cruise, Part II | p. 96 |
| | Information Wants to be Free; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love DNA Testing | p. 115 |
| | Get Back to Where You Once Belonged; or, Hitting the Road to Alabama with Cousin Mooner | p. 146 |
| | The Mountain and the Cloud; or, A Pilgrimage to Salt Lake City's Family History Library | p. 180 |
| | Ask Yourself Why You're Doing This ... and Keep Asking | p. 213 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 231 |
| | Notes | p. 235 |
| | About the Author | p. 242 |