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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 7 (November 2013)
Issue 7 features: * The back-up brigades: The largest collection of militia records online has just been released - here’s the background * Petty crimes?: Nell Darby continues her series on the courts with a look at the Petty Sessions * Grande dame of the seas: We explore the history and heritage of the legendary steamship SS Great Britain * Ladies with many layers: Lucy Adlington discusses women's fashion on the eve of World War One * Place in focus: Explore Lancashire history and records * Books: A round up of recent publications * Break the brick walls: Jenny Jones on parish birth records * What's new in November: Key history-related events More Info
Product Code: DYAP007
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 8 (December 2013)
Issue 8 features: * Know your place: Jill Morris joins DYA’s team of writers with an extended feature on exploring your British local history * Picturing the past: Enjoy a new, free image archive online * The flying judges: Nell Darby concludes her series on the courts with a look at the Assizes * Jutland remembered: A Roll of Honour remembering those who died in WW1’s largest sea battle has now gone online * Place in focus: Explore Lancashire history and records * Books: A round up of recent publications * Break the brick walls: Advice on parish marriage records * What’s new in December: Key history-related events More Info
Product Code: DYAP008
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 16 (August 2014)
Issue 16 features: * Living on leftovers: Nell Darby explores the forgotten practice of gleaning after the harvest * Fit for a king: The new Richard III visitor centre in Leicester * Justly honoured: Military Medal records from WW1 go online * Short o’ pobbies: Lancashire dialect and the Cotton Famine * Hopping through history: The hop pickers of SE England * To Botany Bay and beyond: Convict transportation records * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on straw boaters More Info
Product Code: DYAP016
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Lancashire - A Genealogical Bibliography
This volume is the authoritative and comprehensive guide to everything published on Lancashire that is likely to be of use to genealogists. Topics covered include the history of Lancashire, bibliographies and archival guides, journals and newspapers, pedigrees, biographical sources, occupational sources, family histories, parish registers, monumental inscriptions, probate records, official lists o...More Info
Lancashire Graveyards & Burial Grounds: Locations and whereabouts of transcribed monumental inscriptions (5th edition, 2000). By W J Taylor
Lists all the graveyards and cemeteries in the historic county of Lancashire. The location of graveyards and cemeteries are indicated by reference to the Ordnance Survey map and the whereabouts of the MI transcriptions is also given. An indispensable guide for anyone trying to locate graveyards in Lancashire.
Lancashire Parishes for the Genealogist
All you need to know (genealogically) about Lancashire and the LPRS Temporarily out of stock
Lancashire Local Historian 9 (1994)
And the blowshoppes decay for lakke of wood; How did Thomas Pennant cross the Ribble?; Poverty and the Poor Law in Formby, 1701-1900; A poor diet for poor people? Workhouse food in Lancashire, 1750-1834; In defence of the shopkeeper; Irish Nationalists in Bootle, 1868-1914; St. Mary's School goes to war; Killing the pig; Rainford in the 1940s
Heraldry in the Victoria County History of Lancashire
The CD contains images of armigers whose arms are depicted in The Victoria County History of Lancashire, and the blazons thereof. Also some corporate heraldry (civic, ecclesiastical etc) and a list of seals. Heraldry enthusiasts will notice the different spellings for the same charges. These are, no doubt, as shown in the original sources. There are some errors, however! What self-respecting armor...More Info