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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
Product Code: DYAP018
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The Poor are always with us
New poor law 1834+; workhouses, new settlement rules, migration & emigration, job opportunities for various groups; charity soup etc, social surveys; old age pensions, health insurance: 1830s-1930s
Victorian Censuses
Use and Interpretation, background, details asked, variations and online copies, local copies, Mormon Family History Centres
What does it mean
Obsolete or unusual words and phrases in wills, inventories, deeds, documents and their meanings, with spelling variants and change over the centuries