Make reading and transcribing documents easier with this practical Auto Focus Line Reader Magnifier. Designed specifically for following lines of text, it features a yellow highlight strip along the centre, helping you keep your place when reading census returns, parish registers, family history records, manuscripts, and other detailed documents. The 6-inch bar magnifier is pre-focused for use on any flat surface, providing clear 2x magnification without the need for adjustments. Unlike tradi More Info
Product Code: LU402
An easy to follow laminated A4 folding chart to calculate the possible birth year of an individual working back from their age given at any census 1841 - 1911. For example, if you look for a person aged 45 years in the 1851 census the chart would show you that they would be born between 30th March 1805 and 30th March 1806.... More Info
Product Code: DYACEN
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A detailed account of the place of the midwife in seventeenth and eighteenth century society. Includes a Yorkshire midwives nominations index, listing many names.
Transcriptions of burials in three parish churchyards in north west Sheffield. The Wadsley records contain a number of burials of patients of the nearby South Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum (later Middlewood Hospital). Burials between 7th May 1891 and 11th January 1895 have not been transcribed because the register cannot be located.
Transcriptions of burials at the churchyard of the main central parish church of the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham and the outlying village of Greasbrough.
Directory and Topography of Kingston-Upon-Hull and the City of York. Published in 1851 by Francis White & Co.; The book, which is machine searchable, covers a far wider area than its title suggests, including parts of Yorkshire up to Whitby, west to Doncaster, and down to Louth and Brigg in Lincolnshire.
Apart from Yorkshire Pudding, have you ever wondered what your ancestors ate? Surprisingly, they were quite adventurous, and Mrs Beeton included several recipes from America, China, India, Australia, and other parts of the World. Some of her household hints are still worth knowing!