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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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Catalogue of Len Metzner Indexes and guide to further sources
Research Guide No. 13 - 1st edition (February 2001). For many years Society member Len Metzner spent a lot of time in the Public Record Office and other repositories discovering records that contain details of named Germans and indexing them for the Society. This publication lists those records. The records are indexed on the Society's Names Index which is available for searches by Society members...More Info
Frequently Asked Questions
Research Guide No. 14 - 1st edition. Based on the question and answer feature in the Society's magazine; answers the most common questions about research into Germans in the UK and German-speaking Europe. Fully indexed. Compiled and edited by Roy Bernard
German Hairdressers in the UK: Their Effect Upon the British Way of Life
By Jenny Towey. A history of the German immigrants to the UK who were hairdressers, chiefly from the 19th century, but with a short history of hairdressing in Hannover. Why so many immigrants were hairdressers, with examples from members' researchers. Their effect on the early closing movement in the UK. Many names quoted.
Living with the Wire: Civilian Internment in the Isle of Man during the two World Wars
Edited by Yvonne Cresswell, revised ed, 2010. Originally published as a guide to an exhibition at the Manx Museum in Douglas, Isle of Man. Now substantially revised with large numbers of additional colour illustrations and maps.
Alsace-Lorraine: Atlantic Bridge to Germany
By Linda M. Herrick & Wendy K. Uncapher. In the *Atlantic Bridge to Germany* series, covering the geography and history of Alsace-Lorraine, and contains detailed maps from 1876-89. Also lists each placename with its French equivalent, keyed to the maps, the County ("Kreis") and coverage of Catholic and Protestant registers. Published in the USA, but available from stock in the UK.