This booklet is a guide to descendant searching - that is looking for living relatives who are also descendants of our ancestors. It can be fascinating, rewarding, and potentially life-changing. Research can lead you not to long-dead ancestors but living, breathing relatives who share your genetic heritage - members of your extended family. This book shows you how to get started, offers tips and guidance, includes instructions of how to conduct descendant searching, and uses real examples fr More Info
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Title deeds represent one of the largest groups of historical documents preserved in hundreds of archive repositories, both public and private, across England and Wales. And yet they are often overlooked or neglected by family historians because they are perceived as a particularly 'difficult' or 'incomprehensible' resource. In this publication, the author describes the most commonly encountered forms of title deeds and associated documents and provides a set of simple rules that allows the r More Info
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This book describes many of the Poor Law records that may survive and where to find them, as well as those of other organisations who helped to relieve families in desperate need. Poor Law Records are the most important records of a Parish after Parish Registers. Through them we can discover ancestors who were "paupers", who were helped through the Poor Law, as well as ancestors who were Poor Law Officers. The Old Poor Law 1601-1834 includes the records of the Parish Overseers of the poor More Info
Product Code: BK6183
In this fascinating and original book, Karen Foy guides the reader through 200 years of different types of memorabilia, showing you how to interpret and use ephemera to enhance your understanding of your own family history. More Info
Product Code: BK6196
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
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This book will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of other sources. Case studies are used to show how an individual officer's career may be traced and understood from this r More Info
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Every part of the United Kingdom has its own, distinctive history – not just the major battles and key historical events which may have played out there, but also the smaller details of everyday life which impinged upon the actual lives of our ancestors more directly. The team behind the popular family and social history magazine Discover Your Ancestors has put together a region-by-region guide to the United Kingdom which will give you a flavour of each area’s history and a run-down of the many More Info
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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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This fully revised and updated fourth edition of Scottish Genealogy is a comprehensive guide to tracing your family history in Scotland. Written by one of the most authoritative figures on the subject, the work is based on established genealogical practice and is designed to exploit the rich resources that Scotland has to offer. After all, this country has possibly the most complete and best-kept set of records and other documents in the world. Addressing the questions of DNA, palaeograph More Info
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Reliable genealogical conclusions depend on reliable data. Central to any good investigation is an appreciation of where the data came from, so that other investigators can re-examine it and re-establish the conclusions reached. Genealogy is little more than an anecdote when the sources for facts are not cited and where clear references to sources are not given. Referencing for Genealogists will enable others to follow in your footsteps because it gives you the means to write clear, unambiguo More Info
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WEA Local History Group were asked to participate in the First World War Hertage Project. This booklet is the result
A 100 page fully illustrated book in colour. listing all the war memorials in Coulsdon and Purley commemorating servicemen of the First World War, and listing all those who fell. ISBN 978-0-900992-79-1.
A4 booklet of monumental inscriptions in Penrhyncoch Church churchyard, together with the War Memorial and Trefeurig School War Memorial with plan and index.