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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 1 (May 2013)
Issue 1 features: *The flying aces: Aviators' certificates are newly online *Back to paper: Simon Fowler explains how to use the internet to track down archives to visit in person * Suffer the little children: Sharon Brookshaw explores child labour in the past * Reviews: Recent publications featured, plus an interview with ebook bestseller Steve Robinson *A ruff crowd: Take a trip to a Tudor tavern *Place in focus: Useful resources for Essex research *Join the dots: Make the most of online BMD records *Break the brick walls: Guidance on the censuses More Info
Product Code: DYAP001
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 25 (May 2015)
Issue 25 features: *The front line of faith: Nicola Lisle looks at 150 years of the Salvation Army, and how to trace Salvationist ancestors *All the fun of the fair: Yorkshire Family History Fair preview *Before the census: Chris Paton looks at Scottish census and census substitute records before 1841 *One-stop shops: Jayne Shrimpton explores the history of department stores and their impact on shoppers and staff *Saving what they could carry: Canada's Great Fire of 1922 *A may to remember: Keith Gregson tells the story of Britain's worst railway disaster, sidelined by its occurrence during WW1 *States of growth: Jill Morris on booming 19th century America *History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on parasols More Info
Product Code: DYAP025
Researching and Locating Your Ancestors by Celia Heritage
How should you approach researching your ancestors? In this wide ranging but succinct guidebook, professional writer, lecturer and genealogist Celia Heritage offers expert advice on how to get started using the main online and offline records, and then take research further using a variety of lesser-known resources. In it you will find guidance on subjects including: *Research methodology and how to record what you find *Key Victorian records: birth, marriage and death certificates, and census More Info
Product Code: BK6450
Birth Year from Census Date Calculator
An easy to follow laminated A4 folding chart to calculate the possible birth year of an individual working back from their age given at any census 1841 - 1911. For example, if you look for a person aged 45 years in the 1851 census the chart would show you that they would be born between 30th March 1805 and 30th March 1806.... More Info
Product Code: DYACEN
Family Record Pad - A4 Genealogy Sheets
50 A4 pages for recording and organising information about your family history. Includes space for a person's details, notes, children, and census information. Ideal for our Springback Binders. More Info
Product Code: GE6882
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 63 (July 2018)
* Women in schooling: Gaynor Haliday takes a look at the history of women teachers and the challenges they faced * The Wills Forgery Trials: Nick Thorne considers a case of forged records that had a lawyer wrongly transported for life * Huskar: a mining tragedy: Denise Bates tells the sad story of one of Victorian Britain's worst (and least known) disasters * Reconstructing Sarah Ann: The bare bones of an individual's life, as recorded in the census, can hide the three-dimensional character, explains Nell Darby * Boom, bust and Balfour: In the late 19th century, an economic crisis exposed the unscrupulous business practices of MP Jabez Balfour. Harry Cunningham investigates * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on fans More Info
Product Code: DYAP063
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 78 (October 2019)
* League v Union: Gaynor Haliday looks back 150 years to October 1869, when men who sought to introduce a new system of elementary education for the working classes clashed with the groups who already provided it * Educating women: This month marks the 150th anniversary of Girton College, Cambridge - the first women's college at the university. What can the census tell us about the college and those associated with it? Nell Darby explores * A walk through the history of Eel Pie Island: Nick Thorne takes a ramble through records relating to this Thames island * Disciplined until death: Corporal punishment was part of school life until relatively recent times - despite proof that it could kill those it was inflicted on, writes Nell Darby * History in the details: Police uniforms More Info
Product Code: DYAP078
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 84 (April 2020)
* Missing from the census: Why were some of your ancestors apparently not enumerated in a census, and what can you do about it? Simon Wills offers some expert advice * Fashion's fools: Jayne Shrimpton looks at some of the stranger and more frivolous trends in fashion down the ages * The sibling suicides: Bloomsbury in London once had an unenviable reputation for suicide. Nell Darby reports * The killing of Sergeant Hately: Stephen Wade tells a tale of danger to law and order at the Alnwick hiring fair * The finder of wonderful things: Nick Thorne discovers the records for the artist's son who discovered a pharaoh * History in the details: Mine workers' dress More Info
Product Code: DYAP084
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 99 (July 2021)
* The friendless friend? Governesses worked hard as teachers, nursemaids and more, but often found themselves overlooked or trapped between different classes, says Caroline Roope * A solid trade: Brickmaking was a physical demanding and financiall risky trade - here Sadie McMullon explores the industry's impact on one particular community * A century in the life of a Birmingham boozer: The history of a striking inner city pub reveals a surprising continuity in ownership, and censuses show a family whose lives revolved around their home. Nell Darby gets a round in * A view into the past: Nick Thorne uses images to help see our ancestors' times * Policing town and gown: A study of Oxford's police reports books shows a pattern of antisocial behaviour underneath the city's dreaming spires... Nell Darby investigates * History in the details: Materials - wool (part 6) More Info
Product Code: DYAP099
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Scarborough, Filey & District 1896
Dated 1896. Sheet 54. 1in to mile. This One Inch to the Mile map covers Scarborough and the area south and west, with coverage stretching from Filey westward to Rillington, and from Scarborough southward to Helperthorpe. Features include the Pickering & Scarborough railway, Ayton Castle, the fringe of the North Yorkshire Moors in the NW, and the chalk Wolds in the south. On the reverse, there is ...More Info
York (NE) & Heworth 1889
Dated 1889. Sheet 174.07. 25in to the mile This map covers the east of the city, including Layerthorpe and Heworth. Features include Red Tower and stretch of walls, Foss Islands Branch railway, gasworks, Monk Bridge, Layerthorpe Bridge, River Foss, workhouse, brick yards and glass works, old windmill, Heworth village, The Glen, Tang Hall, Holy Trinity church, Burnholme, Heworth Hall, Heworth Cotta...More Info
Vale of York (South) 1905-1913
Dated 1905-13. Sheet 71. 1in to mile This One Inch to the Mile map covers the area of the Yorkshire Plain south and east of York. Coverage stretches from the southern outskirts of York (ie including the racecourse but not the city centre) southward to Selby, and from Appleton Roebuck eastward to Nunburnholme station and Everingham station. Apart from Selby, towns on the map include Cawood and Pock...More Info
York (South) 1889
Dated 1889. Sheet 174.10a. 25in to mile, coloured Two versions of this map have been published, showing how the area changed across the years. The 1889 version is in colour, taken from the 1st Edition OS handcoloured edition. These detailed maps cover the southern part of York. Coverage stretches from Micklegate southward to Campleshon Lane, and from Fawcetts Street westward to New Lane and Murray...More Info
York (SE) & Heslington 1890
Dated 1890. Sheet 174.11. 25in to mile, coloured This map is in colour, taken from the beautiful 1st Edition OS handcoloured map. It covers the area from Walmgate SE to Heslington. Features include: Walmgate Bar, St Margaret's church, City Wall, St Lawrence church, Convent of Poor Clares, Friend's Retreat, St Nicholas Hospital site, cattle market, Fulford Road with tramway, Cavalry Barracks, Infan...More Info