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The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers - Hardback Book Special Offer
This guide to parish registers, now in its third edition, and covering England, Scotland and Wales, is a vital, time-saving tool that has become universally known as 'the genealogist's bible'. The Atlas includes the famous county 'parish' maps, which show pre-1832 parochial boundaries, colour-coded probate jurisdictions, starting dates of surviving registers, and churches and chapels, where relevant. Topographical maps face each 'parish' map, and show the contemporary road system and other... More Info
Gathering the Clans - Tracing Scottish Ancestry on the Internet
by Alan Stewart Scottish ancestry is easy to trace on the Internet, because Scotland is leading the world in making its family history records available on-line. So now, wherever you live, it is easy to grow a Scottish family tree! All the main records are already on-line: births, marriages and deaths (from 1855), old parish registers (some back as far as 1553), wills and inventories (from 1500) and ten-yearly census returns (1841-1901). In the near future, church, land, poor relief, taxa More Info
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Welsh Genealogy by Bruce Durie
Welsh Genealogy is usually included with its English cousin, but there are significant differences between the two, and anyone wishing to trace their Welsh ancestry will encounter peculiarities that are not covered by books on English family history. There is a separate system of archives and repositories for Wales, there are differences in civil registration and censuses, Nonconformist registers are dissimilar to those of other Churches, and Welsh surnames and place names are very different ... More Info
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Your Irish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Ian Maxwell
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
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Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History by Bruce Durie
This book details how to find and comprehend documents from 1560 to the 1860s, including wills, testaments, contracts, land records, official records, deeds, and more. The Latin glossary is especially useful for helping translate any Latin documents. Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are adept at using the internet for research. However, once they have learnt everything they can from them, the next step is readin More Info
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Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Marie-Louise Backhurst
This book is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in libraries and archives in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Full information is given on how to access the birth, marriage and death records which are only available in the islands and differ in format from those in England and Wales. Marie-Louise Backhurst covers the census, church records, nonconformist registers, rating lists, newspapers, wills and laws of inheritance, off More Info
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Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians (Second Edition) by Ian Maxwell
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
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Tracing Your Trade & Craftsman Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Adele Emm
Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman - a butcher, baker or candlestick maker - somewhere in our ancestry, and Adele Emm's handbook is the perfect guide to finding out about them - about their lives, their work and the world they lived in. She introduces the many trades and crafts, looks at their practices and long traditions, and identifies and explains the many sources you can go to in order to discover more about them and their families. Chapters cover the guilds, the merchants, ... More Info
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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
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Scottish Genealogy Fourth Edition by Bruce Durie
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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Heaton Baptist Highgate Cemetery
**Published February 2009** This CD-ROM contains background information about the cemetery, transcriptions of the registers (containing about 8,700 entries) and monumental inscriptions, together with plans of the graveyard. In addition, the data from the transcriptions of the registers has been electronically sorted in order to produce a form of grave listing to show who probably lies in...More Info
Bradford Parish Church Burial Registers 1681 - 1837
**Published June 2009** This publication on CD-ROM, which is also available as a Downloadble PDF file, contains a brief history of the Parish Church (now Bradford Cathedral), transcriptions of the burial registers, and photographs and old images. The transcriptions of the burial registers, presented in same order as in the original registers, include SURNAME, FORENAMES, DESCRIPTION (...More Info
Shipley St. Paul's Churchyards & Hirst Wood Burial Ground
**Published May 2009** This CD-ROM or pdf download contains background information about the church, transcriptions of the St Paul's burial registers, transcriptions of the monumental inscriptions in the churchyards, transcriptions of the Hirst Wood burial registers, transcriptions of the Hirst Wood grave books, plans of the Hirst Wood graveyard, and transcriptions of the Hirst Wood...More Info
Scholemoor Cemetery, Bradford - Memorial Inscriptions
**Published October 2009** This CD-ROM, which is also available as a Downloadble PDF file, contains a brief history of the cemetery (the first municipal cemetery opened in Bradford, after the Bradford Cemetery Company private burial ground at Undercliffe) and transcriptions of all readable Gentile, Jewish and Muslim memorial inscriptions in the cemetery as follows:- Interment mem...More Info
Great Horton Methodist Circuit, Bradford - Burial Records and Memorial Inscriptions from 5 Churches
**Published January 2010** This CD-ROM, which is also available as a Downloadable PDF file, contains transcriptions of the Burial and Grave Registers and of the existing memorial inscriptions of the burial grounds in this Circuit, supplemented, where possible, by earlier recordings when the memorial inscriptions no longer exist. The churches are: CLAYTON METHODIST CHURCH ...More Info