Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Simon Wills

Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Simon Wills

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This practical handbook will be essential reading and reference for anyone who is keen to discover for themselves the secrets of our maritime past and of the crewmembers and ships that were part of it. What was a merchant seaman's life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, rewarded for bravery, or punished? And how can you find out about an ancestor who was a member of the long British m... More Info

Product Code: BK6218

Tracing your Family History on the Internet - Second Edition - by Chris Paton

Tracing your Family History on the Internet - Second Edition - by Chris Paton

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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

Product Code: BK6335

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Marie-Louise Backhurst

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Marie-Louise Backhurst

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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

Product Code: BK6423

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Brian Elliott

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Brian Elliott

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In the 1920's there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today - many of us have a coalmining ancestor. Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and... More Info

Product Code: BK6424

Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Stephen Wade

Tracing Your Criminal Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Stephen Wade

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Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives, or are fascinated by the history of crime and punishment, this is the book for you. Stephen Wade's useful introduction to this fascinating subject will help you discover and investigate the life stories of individuals who had a criminal past. The crimes they committed, the conditions in which they lived, the polic... More Info

Product Code: BK6425

Tracing Your House History - A Guide for Family Historians by Gill Blanchard

Tracing Your House History - A Guide for Family Historians by Gill Blanchard

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Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house - of their home - needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor house or on a planned estate, in a labourer's cottage, a tied house, a Victorian terrace, a twentieth-century council house or a converted warehouse - this is the book for you. In a series of concise, information-filled chapters, Gill Blanchard shows you how to trace the history of your house or flat, how to gain an insight into the lives o... More Info

Product Code: BK6426

Tracing Your Naval Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Simon Fowler

Tracing Your Naval Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Simon Fowler

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This concise guide to naval history and naval records is essential reading and reference for anyone researching the fascinating story of Britain's Navy and the men and women who served in it. Whether you are interested in the career of an individual seaman, finding out about a medal winner or just want to know more about a particular ship, campaign or operation, this book will point you in the right direction. Simon Fowler assumes the reader has little prior knowledge of the Navy and its his... More Info

Product Code: BK6428

Tracing Your Northern Ancestors - A Guide to the North-East & Cumbria for the Family Historian by Keith Gregson

Tracing Your Northern Ancestors - A Guide to the North-East & Cumbria for the Family Historian by Keith Gregson

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The far north of England is a key site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their trail leads to the north or through it. And yet, despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy and the importance of the region in so many life stories, no previous book has provided a guide to the documents and records that family historians can use in their search. In this accessible and informative introduction to the subject, Keith Gr... More Info

Product Code: BK6429

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians (Second Edition) by Ian Maxwell

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians (Second Edition) by Ian Maxwell

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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 Police Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Stephen Wade

Tracing Your Police Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Stephen Wade

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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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Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors - The First World War - A Guide for Family Historians by Sarah Paterson

Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors - The First World War - A Guide for Family Historians by Sarah Paterson

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The experience of civilian internees and British prisoners of war in German and Turkish hands during the First World War is one of the least well-known - and least researched - aspects of the history of the conflict. The same applies to prisoners of war and internees held in the UK. Yet, as Sarah Paterson shows in this authoritative handbook, a wide-range of detailed and revealing information is available if you know where to look for it. Briefly she outlines the course of the campaigns in ... More Info

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Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: Ypres - A Guide for Family Historians by Simon Fowler

Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: Ypres - A Guide for Family Historians by Simon Fowler

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Simon Fowler outlines the course of the fighting around the city and he introduces the many historical resources that you can use to explore the history for yourself. *A practical guide to researching soldiers who served at Ypres during the First World War *Concise account of the three principal Ypres battles, including Passchendaele *Identifies and explains the key sources including The National Archives, Imperial War Museum and Commonwealth War Graves Commission *Recommends useful websit... More Info

Product Code: BK6472

Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Rosemary Wenzerul Second Edition

Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Rosemary Wenzerul Second Edition

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This fully revised Second Edition of Rosemary Wenzerul's informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. She provides a brief social history of the Jewish presence in Britain and looks at practical issues of research - how to get started, how to organise the work, how to construct a family tree and how to use the information obtained to tell the story of a family. She also describes the many resourc... More Info

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Tracing Your Railway Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Di Drummond

Tracing Your Railway Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Di Drummond

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A sequence of fact-filled chapters gives an all round view of the development of the railways. The author covers the themes that family historians, local historians and railway enthusiasts will need to understand in order to pursue their research. *Concise account of the history of Britain's railways *Guide to railway archives, records and websites for the family historian *Covers the railway companies, the nationalised railways and the railway unions *Describes the working lives of rail... More Info

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Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Richard Brooks & Matthew Little

Tracing Your Royal Marine Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Richard Brooks & Matthew Little

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For a researcher eager to find out about the career of an individual marine, this accessible and practical handbook will be necessary reading. It describes resources available online and in the relevant archives and museums, it covers books and campaign histories and it shows how these records can be used. *Comprehensive introduction to researching Royal Marine history *Shows how to trace individual Royal Marines from the 17th century to the present day *Describes the duties, organisation ... More Info

Product Code: BK6475