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
Product Code: BK5693
Records of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials are vital sources for family historians. It is impossible to trace pedigrees without consulting them. Civil and parish registers are particularly important, but are not the only places where you can find relevant information. In this series, the author describes the wide range of resources available, indicating where they can be found and how they should be used. Chapters include Civil Registers, Parish Registers, Monumental Inscriptio More Info
Product Code: BK6056
Records of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials are vital sources for family historians. It is impossible to trace pedigrees without consulting them. Civil and parish registers are particularly important, but are not the only places where you can find relevant information. In this series, the author describes the wide range of resources available, indicating where they can be found and how they should be used. Chapters include Civil Registers, Parish Registers, Non-Conformist and No More Info
Product Code: BK6150
Records of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials are vital sources for family historians. It is impossible to trace pedigrees without consulting them. Civil and parish registers are particularly important, but are not the only places where you can find relevant information. In this series, the author describes the wide range of resources available, indicating where they can be found and how they should be used. Chapters include Civil Registers, Parish Registers, Overseas Registers, N 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
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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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
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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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1910 BUCKS LAND TAX SURVEY (aka the 1910 Lloyd George Domesday Survey) This survey listed all the land, property and rights in the county, the main occupier, the owner and their address, the type of property and its address; its 83,000 entries are fully searchable. Parishes, owners, tenants, lands, houses, gardens, shops, railways - transcription with the original images on USB stick System ...More Info
There have been many books on Buckinghamshire, but never one like this… The perfect historic guide to Buckinghamshire churches, castles and other historic places. “Buckinghamshire has a famous roll of honour; no small county has contributed more to England’s fame…” – Arthur Mee Arthur Mee’s guide to 206 places in the historic county of Buckinghamshire, from Addington to Wray...More Info
Pottery was a major Buckinghamshire industry with dozens of kiln sites. This comprehensive gazetteer lists pottery production sites and every potter in the documentary record by name – and illustrates their products where known. All alphabetically by parish for easy access. (144 pages with 56 colour illustrations) The authors are experts who draw on many years in the field. They bring togeth...More Info
Contents: Industries section from Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, Volume 2, 1908; Paper mills in Buckinghamshire by Alfred H. Shorter; Brick makers in Buckinghamshire, by Andrew Pike; Buckinghamhire industrial occupations and industries, 1841-1951, by David Thorpe
Illustrated catalogue to exhibition showing the Civil War through portraits and objects, held in Buckinghamshire County Museum, 2004, with introduction by Prof. Ian F.W. Beckett, published by the Friends and Patrons of the Museum (62 pages, paperback)