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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 7 (November 2013)
Issue 7 features: * The back-up brigades: The largest collection of militia records online has just been released - here’s the background * Petty crimes?: Nell Darby continues her series on the courts with a look at the Petty Sessions * Grande dame of the seas: We explore the history and heritage of the legendary steamship SS Great Britain * Ladies with many layers: Lucy Adlington discusses women's fashion on the eve of World War One * Place in focus: Explore Lancashire history and records * Books: A round up of recent publications * Break the brick walls: Jenny Jones on parish birth records * What's new in November: Key history-related events More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 8 (December 2013)
Issue 8 features: * Know your place: Jill Morris joins DYA’s team of writers with an extended feature on exploring your British local history * Picturing the past: Enjoy a new, free image archive online * The flying judges: Nell Darby concludes her series on the courts with a look at the Assizes * Jutland remembered: A Roll of Honour remembering those who died in WW1’s largest sea battle has now gone online * Place in focus: Explore Lancashire history and records * Books: A round up of recent publications * Break the brick walls: Advice on parish marriage records * What’s new in December: Key history-related events More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 9 (January 2014)
Issue 9 features: *The bonds that last: Jenny Jones explains marriage licences, allegations, bonds and banns records *Trades in the trenches: New online data reveals the roles of teachers, engineers and lawyers in World War One *Hair hunting: How beards can reveal your ancestors' lives! *'A nervy lot': Kathy Chater tells an extraordinary family tale of madness and strife, all revealed by papers found on eBay *Party like it's 1853: Learn some Victorian parlour games! *Place in focus: Explore Kentish history and records *Books: A round up of recent publications *Break the brick walls: Advice on parish burial records *What's on in January: Key history-related events More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 13 (May 2014)
Issue 13 features: * A place for everyone?: Parish settlement orders explored * Grow more branches: 500,000 more parish records go online * Kip and kin: Ruth Symes on the secrets of the ancestral bed * When drama meets reality: Explore the roots of stars in the BBC’s new World War One nursing drama * Lumped together: How did people sleep in the workhouse? * Empty pockets: Records of bankruptcy and insolvency * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on aprons More Info
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Researching and Locating Your Ancestors by Celia Heritage
How should you approach researching your ancestors? In this wide ranging but succinct guidebook, professional writer, lecturer and genealogist Celia Heritage offers expert advice on how to get started using the main online and offline records, and then take research further using a variety of lesser-known resources. In it you will find guidance on subjects including: *Research methodology and how to record what you find *Key Victorian records: birth, marriage and death certificates, and census More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 53 (September 2017)
* The mystery of Branwell's death: Ruth A Symes explores why Branwell Brontë's death certificate doesn't fully explain his death * New records from the 'Far North': Keith Gregson explores the Northumberland parish records recently added to TheGenealogist website * A touch of glass: Daniel Hewitt explores the glass etching trade through the prism of a talented ancestor * A bloody history: Life in the Caribbean could be brutal and extremely gruelling for our ancestors and far worse for the original native tribes who lived there, writes Harry Cunningham * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on underwear More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 77 (September 2019)
* Tracing the turnkeys: Stephen Wade explains the challenges of tracking down ancestors who worked in our prisons -many of whom were women * All the fun of the fair: Fairs have been a part of society since medieval times. Caroline Roope takes us on a spin through their history * Looking after policemen's children: The Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage helped home and educate the offspring of dead police officers, as Nell Darby explains * The wrong side of the blanket? Nick Thorne finds new Norfolk parish records on TheGenealogist can reveal illegitimate children and who their parents had been * Full steam ahead: Jayne Shrimpton returns to the water to give us a history of steamboats * History in the details: Firefighters' uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 81 (January 2020)
* The secret worshippers: Stuart A. Raymond explores researching Catholic recusants through his detailed study of a parish in Wiltshire * More than just scrawls on walls: Is graffiti a mark of disrespect or social comment? Denise Bates looks at its long history * Tales of the Cartaret dynasty: Nick Thorne follows up a chance finding in the tithe records, leading him to the story of a Royalist privateer commemorated in America * The child-snatchers: Playing to our insecurities both as children and parents, kidnapping remains a rare but particularly scary crime, writes Nell Darby * Motherhood and madness in the Victorian era: Lorraine Schofield explores the gap between the ideal of womanhood in the 19th century and the reality of mental illness * History in the details: Railway staff uniforms More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 98 (June 2021)
* New recruits at sea: Simon Wills explores the lives and duties of merchant navy apprentices, and looks at the records available to researchers * The parish clerk: Stuart A. Raymond investigates the role of a key figure in the life of church and community * The fathers of forensics: Nell Darby introduces some key figures who advanced the role of science in detecting the circumstances and perpetrators of crime * Spitfires, siblings and spies: Nick Thorne delves into the records to see what can be learned about a distinguished pair of brothers * Game and set to play: Jayne Shrimpton serves up a history of tennis fashion * History in the details: Materials - wool (part 5) More Info
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Buckinghamshire - 1910 Lloyd George Survey for Buckinghamshire
1910 BUCKS LAND TAX SURVEY (aka the 1910 Lloyd George Domesday Survey) This survey listed all the land, property and rights in the county, the main occupier, the owner and their address, the type of property and its address; its 83,000 entries are fully searchable. Parishes, owners, tenants, lands, houses, gardens, shops, railways - transcription with the original images on USB stick System ...More Info
Buckinghamshire (The King's England)
There have been many books on Buckinghamshire, but never one like this… The perfect historic guide to Buckinghamshire churches, castles and other historic places. “Buckinghamshire has a famous roll of honour; no small county has contributed more to England’s fame…” – Arthur Mee Arthur Mee’s guide to 206 places in the historic county of Buckinghamshire, from Addington to Wray...More Info
Pots, Potters and Potteries of Buckinghamshire 1200-1910. By Michael Farley and Barbara Hurman (2019)
Pottery was a major Buckinghamshire industry with dozens of kiln sites. This comprehensive gazetteer lists pottery production sites and every potter in the documentary record by name – and illustrates their products where known. All alphabetically by parish for easy access. (144 pages with 56 colour illustrations) The authors are experts who draw on many years in the field. They bring togeth...More Info
Buckinghamshire's industrial heritage: collected papers, edited by David Thorpe. Bucks Paper No.13
Contents: Industries section from Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, Volume 2, 1908; Paper mills in Buckinghamshire by Alfred H. Shorter; Brick makers in Buckinghamshire, by Andrew Pike; Buckinghamhire industrial occupations and industries, 1841-1951, by David Thorpe
Buckinghamshire in the Civil War
Illustrated catalogue to exhibition showing the Civil War through portraits and objects, held in Buckinghamshire County Museum, 2004, with introduction by Prof. Ian F.W. Beckett, published by the Friends and Patrons of the Museum (62 pages, paperback)