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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 18 (October 2014)
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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Surrey National Index of Parish Registers
Every family historian needs to know what parish registers, bishops' transcripts, and nonconformist registers are available. This volume provides the authoritative and most detailed listing available. It indicates where they can be found, and also what copies and transcripts are available.
Poor Law Union Records Volume 3 - South-West England, The Marches and Wales
By Jeremy Gibson. The records of poor law unions of the 19th and early 20th centuries constitute a major, but under-used, source of genealogical data - partly because, prior to the publication of these books, it was difficult to know what was available. They set that right, and provide a detailed listing, county by county, of the extensive resources which may include information on your ancestors.
British Civil Registration / Tom Wood
The civil registers are amongst the first sources that the family historian will need to check. They appear to be easy to use - but appearacnes may be deceptinve, and it pays to be aware of how they were compiled. Wood provides a detailed account of the registers and indexes, and his text should be read by alllfamily historians. 2nd edition, 2000.
History's Midwives / Joan E. Grundy
A detailed account of the place of the midwife in seventeenth and eighteenth century society. Includes a Yorkshire midwives nominations index, listing many names.