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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 63 (July 2018)
* Women in schooling: Gaynor Haliday takes a look at the history of women teachers and the challenges they faced * The Wills Forgery Trials: Nick Thorne considers a case of forged records that had a lawyer wrongly transported for life * Huskar: a mining tragedy: Denise Bates tells the sad story of one of Victorian Britain's worst (and least known) disasters * Reconstructing Sarah Ann: The bare bones of an individual's life, as recorded in the census, can hide the three-dimensional character, explains Nell Darby * Boom, bust and Balfour: In the late 19th century, an economic crisis exposed the unscrupulous business practices of MP Jabez Balfour. Harry Cunningham investigates * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on fans More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 69 (January 2019)
* Rinking: an Edwardian craze: Roller skating as a leisure activity has a surprisingly long history. Jayne Shrimpton investigates this pastime, which peaked in the Edwardian age * La Belle Sauvage: Nick Thorne visits a coaching inn where the printing presses disturbed the guests * 'Dollar Princesses': Ruth A Symes looks at what our ancestors made of visiting American women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries * Nursing the nation's heroes: Royal Victoria Hospital was Britain's largest ever military hospital. Simon Wills investigates its history and its patients * The Ratho Murder: When the 'respectable' George Bryce suspected that a local servant had told his fiancee to break off their union, he exacted a horrible revenge, says Nell Darby * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton on hair ornaments More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 75 (July 2019)
* Secrets from the grave: Simon Wills explores the genealogical value of our ancestors' headstones * Number One London: TheGenealogist's Map Explorer shows London landmarks in changing environment, writes Nick Thorne * Messing about on the river: Jayne Shrimpton sets sail in the first of two articles about leisure activities associated with water - this time, our rivers and canals * George, the habitual criminal: Nell Darby lays down the law about the history of repeat offenders * Drinking with the Georgians: Phil Wood enjoys an 18th century tipple * History in the details: Jayne Shrimpton looks at male servants' livery More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 84 (April 2020)
* Missing from the census: Why were some of your ancestors apparently not enumerated in a census, and what can you do about it? Simon Wills offers some expert advice * Fashion's fools: Jayne Shrimpton looks at some of the stranger and more frivolous trends in fashion down the ages * The sibling suicides: Bloomsbury in London once had an unenviable reputation for suicide. Nell Darby reports * The killing of Sergeant Hately: Stephen Wade tells a tale of danger to law and order at the Alnwick hiring fair * The finder of wonderful things: Nick Thorne discovers the records for the artist's son who discovered a pharaoh * History in the details: Mine workers' dress More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 98 (June 2021)
* New recruits at sea: Simon Wills explores the lives and duties of merchant navy apprentices, and looks at the records available to researchers * The parish clerk: Stuart A. Raymond investigates the role of a key figure in the life of church and community * The fathers of forensics: Nell Darby introduces some key figures who advanced the role of science in detecting the circumstances and perpetrators of crime * Spitfires, siblings and spies: Nick Thorne delves into the records to see what can be learned about a distinguished pair of brothers * Game and set to play: Jayne Shrimpton serves up a history of tennis fashion * History in the details: Materials - wool (part 5) More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 104 (December 2021)
* Passengers at sea: Simon Wills explores what it was like to take a long voyage across the oceans as a passenger, whether for leisure or in search of a new life * Family photographs at Christmas: Photo expert Jayne Shrimpton looks at how advances and trends in photography were reflected in seasonal celebrations * The women of Mumbles Head: In 1883, a storm ravaged the coastline of South Wales, and claimed several lives. If it hadn't been for the actions of two sisters, it could have claimed more... Nell Darby tells their story * Social mobility in the 19th century: Denise Bates investigates how people could cross the divides of class and status in Victorian times * A seafaring surgeon and a rural rioter: Nick Thorne follows Ed Balls' journey through his roots * History in the details: Materials - linen (part 4) More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 106 (February 2022)
* People's parks: Denise Bates explores the history of public parks and the social purpose they have served * Bigamy at Bristol: When a man committed bigamy, one might expect people to condemn him. So how, in 1859, did one man actually get sympathy for doing so? Nell Darby knows * A ride through time: Nick Thorne demonstrates how combining online resources can help with researching ancestors' occupations * The saddest goodbye: Simon Wills looks at why and how our ancestors attempted suicide and the repercussions for them and their families * Letters to the editor: Paul Matthews offers a sampler of correspondence to periodicals, revealing little windows into the past * History in the details: Materials - cotton (part 2) More Info
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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 108 (April 2022)
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www.TheGenealogist.co.uk Gift Voucher - Standard Personal 1 year Credit Free Subscription Free UK P&P
This gift voucher entitles the recipient to a 1 year, credit free Standard Personal subscription at www.TheGenealogist.co.uk. The Genealogist gives you access to census transcripts from 1841 to 1911, BMD records, Parish Records, Wills and much more. The range of data is constantly being added to. This credit free subscription voucher makes the ideal gift for your friends and family.... More Info
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NOTES AND ABSTRACTS OF THE WILLS CONTAINED IN THE VOLUME ENTITLED THE GREAT ORPHAN BOOK AND BOOK OF WILLS by Rev. T. P. Wadley
This book of three hundred plus pages was first published in 1886 and contains abstracts from over four hundred wills from the Bristol area. The wills date from the mid fourteenth to the sixteenth century and are packed with personal and local information which will be of great interest to anyone studying the city of having ancestors from this area. Index and is fully searchable.
CD35 Abstracts of Wills in the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey 1660-1739
Volume 20 (MW20) Registered & Unregistered Wills 1660-1671 Volume 21 (MW21) Registered & Unregistered Wills 1671-1679 Volume 22 (MW22) Unregistered Wills 1680-1689 Volume 23 (MW23) Registered and Unregistered Wills 1690-1695 Volume 24 (MW24) Registered and Unregistered Wills 1695-1699 Volume 26 (MW26) Registered and Unregistered 1700-1708 Volume 28 (MW28) Unregistered wills 1709-...More Info
CD36 Abstracts of Wills in the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey 1740-1858
Volume 36 (MW36) Registered wills 1740-1745 Volume 37 (MW37) Registered wills 1746-1751 Volume 38 (MW38) Registered wills 1752-1762 Volume 39 (MW39) Registered wills 1763-1777 Volume 40 (MW40) Registered and Unregistered wills 1778-1800 Volume 41 (MW41) Registered and Unregistered wills 1800-1821 Volume 42 (NEW not published in the microfiche series) 1823-1858 This CD is avail...More Info
CD34 Abstracts of Wills in the Archdeaconry Court of Surrey 1480-1649
The first 13 registers are entitled, as was customary at that time, after the name of the first testator in the register. Volume 1 (MW 1) Will register ‘Spage’ 1480-90 (from Surrey Record Society printed edition) Volume 2 (MW 2) Will register ‘Mathewe’ 1490-1524 Volume 3 (MW 3) Will register ‘Mychell’ 1529-32 Volume 4 (MW 4) Will register ‘Heats’ 1532-38 Volume ...More Info
CD37 Abstracts of Wills in the Commissary Court of Surrey 1662-1857
Volume 19 (MW19) Filed & Unregistered Wills 1662-1673 Volume 25 (MW25) Registered and Unregistered Wills 1674-1696 Volume 27 (MW27) Registered and Unregistered 1697-1728 Volume 32 (MW32) Registered and Unregistered Wills 1729-1762 Volume 35 (MW35) of Surrey Registered wills 1763-1857 This CD is available as part of a bulk buy of 'Abstracts of Wills in the Archdeaconry and Commissary...More Info