What are wills, and how can they be used for family and local history research? How can you interpret them and get as much insight from them as possible? They are key documents for exploring the lives of our ancestors, their circumstances, and the world they knew. This practical handbook is the essential guide to understanding them. More Info
Product Code: BK6216
Your Irish Ancestors provides an entertaining insight into everyday life in Ireland during the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Ian Maxwell's highly readable guide introduces researchers to the wealth of material available in archives throughout Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth century census returns and school registers will be familiar to researchers, but others have been traditionally overlooked by all but the most experienced genealo More Info
Product Code: BK6220
As Chris Paton demonstrates in this straightforward practical guide, while the internet is an enormous asset, it is also something to be wary of. Researchers need to take a cautious approach to the internet information they acquire. They need to ask, where did the original material come from and has it been accurately reproduced, why was it put online, what has been left out and what is still to come? More Info
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Birth, Marriage and Death Records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them. It explains the original motives for registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in understanding the documentation. They recount the history... More Info
Product Code: BK6419
This fully revised and updated Second Edition is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census returns and school registers, will be familiar to researchers, but others are often overlooked by all but the most experienced of genealogists. An easy-to-use, informative guide to the comprehensive collections available at the Public Record Office of N More Info
Product Code: BK6430
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**Column headings:** Surname; Forename; Relationship to head of household; Marital status; Age; Occupation; County of birth; Place of birth; Folio number; Page number. **Surnames in Index:** EARLY; EARNSHAW; EASON; EASTWOOD; EATON; EBDIN; ECKERSLEY; EDDISON; EDDLESTON; EDGELEY; EDWARDS; EGGLEY; ELAM; ELBIDGE; ELEY; ELLAM; ELLICKER; ELLIOTT; ELLIS; ELLISON; ELL...More Info
2nd edition (1996) By Colin R. Chapman. Mainly aimed at remote researchers, this is a helpful guide that details many things you can do outside the county you are researching, especially useful to those tracing British ancestors from overseas. This book covers some subjects and areas omitted from other general guides - for example Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands are covered - an...More Info
A story from quieter times in Ireland, leading through to the author's arrival in Headley, Hampshire. *Jessie Woodger* Supplied by John Owen Smith
First published in 1966, R. J. Dickson's Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775 remains the acknowledged work of scholarship on migration in the eighteenth century of a quarter of a million people from Ulster to the New World. It combines detailed investigation of the economic, social and political background to the exodus with information on the emigrant trade and an analysis of the moti...More Info
Elm Park near Killylea, County Armagh, occupies an important place in twentieth-century educational history in Northern Ireland. In 1920 Seth Smith and Willoughby Weaving acquired the house and grounds known as Elm Park and established a preparatory school for boys aged between seven and fourteen. During the Second World War over 60 boys attended the school, but a decline in numbers after 1945 ...More Info