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The Wills of our Ancestors: A Guide for Family & Local Historians by Stuart A. Raymond
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
Birth, Marriage & Death Records - A Guide for Family Historians by David Annal and Audrey Collins
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
Product Code: BK6419
Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Marie-Louise Backhurst
This book is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in libraries and archives in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Full information is given on how to access the birth, marriage and death records which are only available in the islands and differ in format from those in England and Wales. Marie-Louise Backhurst covers the census, church records, nonconformist registers, rating lists, newspapers, wills and laws of inheritance, off More Info
Product Code: BK6423
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Local Newspapers 1750-1920, England and Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man: a select location list / Jeremy Gibson, Brett Langston, & Brenda W. Smith. 3rd ed. Family History Partnership, 2011.
Newspapers contain a huge amount of information for genealogists. This volume lists the thousands of titles that are available in English and Welsh national and local libraries, and tells you where to find them.
Clock & Watchmakers of the Scottish Highlands & Islands 1780-1900
Historical information on individual Clock & Watchmakers
ORKNEY Islands 1845
A QUALITY A3 SIZE COLOUR REPRODUCTION FROM THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND 1845. MOST MAPS HAVE THE PARISHES OUTLINED LASER PRINTER ON GOOD QUALITY CARTRIDGE PAPER. SENT FOLDED IN A PLASTIC DISPLAY SLEEVE IN A STIFF CARD ENVELOPE AT THE LARGE LETTER RATE. SCALES VARY [WATERMARKS WILL NOT SHOW ON PURCHASES]
SHETLAND Islands 1845
A QUALITY A3 SIZE COLOUR REPRODUCTION FROM THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND 1845. MOST MAPS HAVE THE PARISHES OUTLINED LASER PRINTER ON GOOD QUALITY CARTRIDGE PAPER. SENT FOLDED IN A PLASTIC DISPLAY SLEEVE IN A STIFF CARD ENVELOPE AT THE LARGE LETTER RATE. SCALES VARY [WATERMARKS WILL NOT SHOW ON PURCHASES]