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An overview of the major sources for tracing Jewish ancestors. Essential reading if you are of Jewish descent.
Do you have old photographs that you would like to identify and date? This and its companion volume on the nineteenth century are the books you need. They will also help you in the task of preserving the family album.
Pollbooks list everyone who voted in Parliamentary elections, and provide excellent means of tracing particular surnames across entire counties in the eighteenth century. Yorkshire family and local historians will find these three facsimile pollbooks valuable sources of information on surnames.
This is the authoritative guide to everything that has been published and is likely to be of interest to family historians. It is published in 3 volumes: 1. Genealogical Sources 2. Registers, Inscriptions, & Wills 3. Family Histories. These volumes normally retail at
Newspapers contain a huge amount of information for genealogists. This volume lists the thousands of titles that are available in English and Welsh national and local libraries, and tells you where to find them.