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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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Bedfordshire Parish Poor Law Papers 1622-1834.
This book contains a surname index of names of people that appear in surviving Bedfordshire Poor Law documents, held at the Bedfordshire and Luton County Archives. It also contains an alphabetical list by Parish of Poor Law documents that survive. The book is A5 in size and contains over 200 pages of information. This book is also available in CD or download format
Using Libraries; Workshops for Family Historians
Books and libraries are vital to genealogists. That is the message of this book and it will be neglected at the risk of wasting a great deal of time and failing to find the information you need. This book sets out to answer four questions: What can the genealogist expect from libraries? How should libraries be used? What family history resources are they likely to hold? How can books of relevance ...More Info
Travellers Remember Hopping Time - now reduced in price!
Edited by Janet Keet-Black and the late Mary Horner A5 paperback book, 60 pages, black-and-white family photographs The book contains people's memories and photos of when they or their older family members used to go hop-picking plus articles about the history of the craft. All these were originally contributed by RTFHS members for a special hopping exhibition held in 2001 at the RTFHS Socie...More Info
Ten Major Gypsy Families of Wales & The English West & North
Ten Major Gypsy Families of Wales & The English West & North - as its title implies - brings together the family trees of 10 families, grouped by the region of Britain in which they originated, lived and travelled and – no doubt in some cases – associated with each other and intermarried. The result is a book that is very different in format to the previous 17 single-surname volumes i...More Info
Ayres: But For Further Evidence: The Continuing Family History of William Ayres, Gypsy
By Tony Dixon This is a much expanded and updated second edition of the book originally published by the author in 2013. Additional research conducted in the intervening years means that the book has trebled in size. It now includes not only a more complete biography of William Ayres (1806-1872) and his family but also looks back at earlier generations, individuals who lived in the early 1...More Info