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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The internet is now the first port of call for most beginning family historians. It has a vast amount of information - but it is not always easy to find your way around. In this book, Stuart Raymond, author of many acclaimed genealogical handbooks, takes you on a tour. He points out where to find the information you need to trace your family tree, how to assess the value of internet evidence, and ...More Info
Were your Surrey or Sussex ancestors brewers or businessmen, cricketers or photographers, ironmasters or tallow chandlers? Some members of your family are probably listed somewhere by the occupation they pursued. There are many sources of published information for occupations in Surrey and Sussex: this book will enable you to identify hundreds of potential leads for your research.
By Arthur Willis and Karin Proudfoot . Many books have been written for the would-be genealogist, but none has equalled the popularity of this little book on English research. First published in 1955, it is now in its 6th completely re-written edition. Contents include How to Begin; Records of searches; Births, marriages and deaths; Census return; Parish registers; Other parish records; Wills and ...More Info
By Jeremy Gibson & Elizabeth Hampson. Many libraries and record offices hold copies of the census on microform. This book is a directory of what is available where.
If your ancestors were from these two counties, you will want to study this book in order to see how surnames in the region originated and evolved over the centuries, demonstrating how they were affected by local dialects.