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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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Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors: a guide for Family and Local Historians / Stuart A. Raymond
We all have nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century, almost half of the population were nonconformists. Family historians need to be aware of the diversity of nonconformity, and of the many sources which ill enable them to trace the activities of nonconformist forebears. This hand book provides an overview of those sources. It identifies the numerous websites, libraries and ar...More Info
Stourton before Stourhead: a History of the Parish 1550-1750
The gardens at Stourhead (Wiltshire) are amongst the best known in England. But what was there before they were planted and the lake was dug? This book demonstrates that Stourton had a fascinating history before the gardens were ever thought of. For example, it is one of the few places to sustain a Roman Catholic congregation from the Reformation right up until the 20th century. Particular attenti...More Info
Probate Jurisdictions : Where to Look for Wills / Jeremy Gibson & Stuart Raymond
Before 1858, wills were proved in a wide variety of different probate courts, mainly ecclesiastical. The archives of these courts are now held by a wide variety of different records. Offices. Many have been digitised, microfilmed, or transcribed. This book identifies all the courts that proved wills or granted probate administration, together with details of digitised and microfilmed collections,...More Info
Gypsies of Britain
By Janet Keet-Black. This important book covers the history of travelling groups in Britain, their abodes, and ways of earning a living. It also looks at their contribution to war work, and has a very welcome chapter on their role in 21st Century society. Many of the colour photographs have not been published before. Shire Publications, A5, 56 pages.
Stanley: The Family Trees of Hercules and Peter Stanley
Expanded Edition 2019 From about 1710 to about 1910, from primarily Hampshire and Berkshire. Compiled by Anne-Marie Ford. A4, 20 pages. This updated and expanded edition of The Family Trees of Hercules and Peter Stanley reflects finds from the many new family history sources that have become available since its first publication by the RTFHS in 2013. The author Anne-Marie Ford, a widely...More Info