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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The Visitation of Yorkshire. Made in the years 1584/5, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald. Also the subsequent visitation made in 1612 by Richard St. George, Norroy King of Arms. With several additional pedigrees and indexes. The book on this CD is machine searchable
Thomas Langdale's work of 1822. Where to find places in Yorkshire's three Ridings. An alphabetical listing of all the towns, villages, hamlets, gentlemens' seats, &c., giving distances to market or post towns, brief histories of notable antiquities, and the names of magistrates,lieutenants and other officers of the County.
A complete journal of tenancy laws, domestic animal breeding, weaning, rearing, etc., dairy produce, domestic arrangements, husbandry, servants, markets, soil types, tillage, silage, drainage, crops grown, building types, building practices, timber types and uses and, finally, a little help with dialect speech in a chapter entitled 'Provincialisms' ..... everything you need to know about life in r...More Info
Yorkshire, rich in natural resources and splendid industries. During the 19th century, much progress was made in commerce and industry, and in our admirable social and municipal institutions. The book on this CD is an illustration of that progress. Potted histories of some of the businesses and the people who made our county great, with lots of illustrations. The text is machine searchable.