Issue 18 features: * Housekeeping through history: Margaret Powling shows how housekeeping books can illuminate social history * Celebration of place: A new one-place studies conference * Wounded in WW1: Explore 1.3m casualty records online * Sea changes: Karen Foy on the many ways we can learn about our migrant ancestors * A walk in the park: The development of public parks * The slippery poll: 18th and 19th century poll books revealed * History in the details: Cloaks and mantles * Places in Focus: Norwich More Info
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Numerous histories of the county, and of particular parishes, may be identified by using this volume, which indicates publications includin original sources, pedigrees, etc. It also includes details of guides to the wide variety of archive repositories and libraries in the county, and lists the many Yorkshire historical and genealogical journals available. The final two sections deal with place-na...More Info
Parish Registers, monumental inscriptions, and wills are staple diets for family historians. This volume lists those which have been published, and which are available in libraries world-wide (FFHS, 2000).
Lists of names are vital sources of information for genealogists, and many are identified in this volume. For Yorkshire, numerous transcripts and indexes of the census, and of tax lists are available; also many trade directories (some of which have been published on fiche etc). This volume tells you what is available, and also enables you to locate a variety of other name lists (FFHS, 2000).
The records of governmental, ecclesiastical, and estate administration contain a vast mass of information of great value to the genealogist. Churchwardens' accounts, deeds, manorial and ecclesiastical court records rentals, surveys are just a few of the records which have been published and which are listed here (FFHS, 2000).
Were your Yorkshire ancestors brewers or businessmen, cutlers or miners? Some members of your family are probably listed somewhere by the occupation they pursued. There are many sources of published information on Yorkshire occupations - biographical dictionaries, guides to archives, histories of particular occupations, etc., etc. This new guide lists hundreds of potential sources of information (...More Info