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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 3 (July 2013)
Issue 3 features: * Thinking outside the pox: Sue Wilkes researches smallpox and how vaccination registers can help family historians * Get your research on track: New railway staff records online * Far from home: Emma Jolly explains how to trace British Home Children in both UK and Canadian records * Take to your pen!: We talk to writing expert Lynn Palermo * The public fumes: Early reactions to the London Underground * Books: A round up of recent publications * Lucky dip: An eclectic collection of indexes is now online * Place in focus: Explore and research Dorset roots * Break the brick walls: Civil registration marriage records More Info
Product Code: DYAP003
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 14 (June 2014)
Issue 14 features: * Going the extra mile: Jenny Jones explains the history and advantages of ‘Dade registers’ * Warriors in your DNA?: DNA research into Bannockburn * PoW records go online: A major new WW1 resource * It’s all in the cards: The history and etiquette of calling cards * Not a happy lot?: Police life and work in Victorian Cheshire * A life on (or behind) stage: Theatrical records explored * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on canes and sticks * Place in focus: Northampton More Info
Product Code: DYAP014
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
Product Code: BK6450
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 88 (August 2020)
* I do... or I sue: Almost 50 years after this law was dropped, Denise Bates looks at breach of promise to marry legislation * Family sporting photos: Photo expert Jayne Shrimpton looks at how photography has encompassed people's enthusiasm for leisure pursuits * A stained character? Nick Thorne roots out the hidden past of an expert on stained glass windows * The healing waters: Daniel Hewitt investigates the records and registers left by spas and hydrotherapy hospitals * A life on both sides of the tracks: Investigating the lives of private detectives can be a challenge: especially when they adopted different guises. Nell Darby reports * History in the details: Street vendors and deliverers More Info
Product Code: DYAP088
Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 108 (April 2022)
Keep up to date with the genealogy world and learn more about your hobby with the critically acclaimed Discover Your Ancestors online periodical. Whether you are just starting out or have reached a brick wall in your research, this will help and inspire you on your family history journey. Receive guidance from experts, tips on the best sources for records, explore connections around the world and bring your ancestors to life. Issue 108 features: The changing face of death: Simon Wills looks ... More Info
Product Code: DYAP108
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CD43 General Indexes to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of London
CD 43 General Indexes to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of London (Godfrey Edition). Research in Victorian London very soon gives rise to the question "where is such-and-such a street?". It may be on a modern map, but quite often is not. The re-publication of early Ordnance Survey 1:2500 maps in the reduced scale Godfrey Edition gives the researcher a chance but, even if the street is on the sheet one h...More Info
Atlas of London circa 1908
By J & A Catlyn, published by Cyrene Publications (2003). 20 coloured maps of Central London, with searchable Index to over 7000 streets computer-linked to the maps. An Index to 1000 places of interest in London and 16 maps of the Environs of London. Included is a small eight-page booklet advising on how to make the best use of this CD.
CD16 Early 20th Century London: Maps, Street Names and Schools
Compiled and indexed by Chris Willis, edited by Sue Turner, Nov 2009. This CD contains the six Board School Maps of London, produced in 1906/7 by the London Schools Authorities. They were based on the 6" Ordnance Survey stock of the time and over printed with boundaries of the areas used in controlling the schools and also with the actual schools. To provide an index into the maps, a Street index ...More Info
The End of the Line - the story of the railway service to the Great Northern London Cemetery
King's Cross station was linked to the Great Northern Cemetery by a special train service which took funeral parties from central London to the outskirts where burial space was more readily available. This was a short lived service unlike that in south London. Many of London's institutions made use of the service and records of burials are available from the New Southgate Cemetery.
RA06 Genealogical Research in Victorian London
by Cliff Webb (8th edition 2007.) Shows how to reduce the cost of searching for Victorian London ancestors, with a list of parishes and registers for the London area outside the City, created before 1870, and with A2 map of parish boundaries c.1870. The latest edition, as well as showing the latest register deposits, has an appendix making it easier to locate churches in smaller districts and also...More Info