This guide to parish registers, now in its third edition, and covering England, Scotland and Wales, is a vital, time-saving tool that has become universally known as 'the genealogist's bible'. The Atlas includes the famous county 'parish' maps, which show pre-1832 parochial boundaries, colour-coded probate jurisdictions, starting dates of surviving registers, and churches and chapels, where relevant. Topographical maps face each 'parish' map, and show the contemporary road system and other More Info
What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? They are key documents for exploring the lives of our ancestors, their circumstances, and the world they knew. This practical handbook is the essential guide to understanding them. More Info
Product Code: BK6216
Scotland's history has been influenced by many factors – the division between the Highlands and the Lowlands, the feudal system, the Reformation, the industrial revolution - that have shaped the country's past and impacted on the lives of its people. Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to this long, complex and fascinating story. It is aimed primarily at family historians who are eager to explore and understand the world in which their ancestors lived. Ian More Info
Birth, Marriage and Death Records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them. It explains the original motives for registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in understanding the documentation. They recount the history... More Info
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This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Scottish Genealogy is a comprehensive guide to tracing your family history in Scotland. Written by one of the most authoritative figures on the subject, the work is based on established genealogical practice and is designed to exploit the rich resources that Scotland has to offer. After all, this country has possibly the most complete and best-kept set of records and other documents in the world. Addressing the questions of DNA, palaeograph More Info
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This is a 84 page book of Memorial Inscriptions for Balmaclellan Parish Churchyard in the Parish of Balmaclellan, Dumfriesshire. It was published in 2014 and consists of 33 pages of inscriptions from 237 headstones. It is indexed by Surname only. It includes 468 Old Parish Register Burials indexed by Surname and Forename. Also included are the 122 entries from the 1792 Census plus an list of Pl...More Info
2nd edition (1995). Described as 'the most useful single reference work for those tracing ancestry', the main section of the atlas contains maps showing the pre-1832 parish boundaries, colour-coded probate jurisdictions, the starting dates of the surviving registers, and the position of churches and chapels where relevant. And facing each 'parish' map is a topographical map, showing the contempora...More Info
2nd edition (1996) By Colin R. Chapman. Mainly aimed at remote researchers, this is a helpful guide that details many things you can do outside the county you are researching, especially useful to those tracing British ancestors from overseas. This book covers some subjects and areas omitted from other general guides - for example Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands are covered - an...More Info
The Declaration of Arbroath, created in 1320, was an enormously important historical document with significance in Scotland and beyond. The Declaration of Arbroath Family History Project, run by the Genealogical Studies Postgraduate Programme based in the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Strathclyde and funded by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, was devised for two purposes....More Info