The Key to the Family Deed Chest: How to Decipher and Study Old Documents
The Key to the Family Deed Chest: How to Decipher and Study Old Documents

Author: Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2022-08-21

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13:

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"The Key to the Family Deed Chest: How to Decipher and Study Old Documents: Being a Guide to the Reading of Ancient Manuscripts" by Emma Elizabeth Thoyts was and is a short but useful tool for anyone who finds themselves needing to make sense of old documents. She found that you often didn't need a lawyer or professional if you had a little help in understanding technical jargon. Due to the nature of these records, her work is just as useful today as it was when she first wrote it.

Evidence Explained
Evidence Explained

Author: Elizabeth S Mills

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company

Published: 2024-05-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780806321370

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Citation style manual for every type of source record and media.

Reading Early American Handwriting
Reading Early American Handwriting

Author: Kip Sperry

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780806308463

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This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.

A Handbook of Dates
A Handbook of Dates

Author: C. R. Cheney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-04-06

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780521778459

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A Handbook of Dates is an unrivalled reference book for historians. It provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the dates (and days) on which historical events have fallen or will fall, from AD 500 to 2100. It describes the calendars and other systems used for dating purposes in England from Roman times to the present, including regnal years. Lists of Easter dates, saints' days, popes, rulers of England and the Roman calendar are also given. In this updated and expanded edition, edited by Professor Michael Jones, the introductory materials for each set of tables has been revised. New tables for legal chronology, old and new style dates, Celtic Easter, adoption of Gregorian style, and the French Revolutionary calendar have been added, while the existing Anglo-Saxon regnal lists have been significantly revised. A Handbook of Dates is an essential tool for all researchers in British history.

Doing History
Doing History

Author: Mark Donnelly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1136656944

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History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed over the last few decades and has become much more exciting and varied as a result of ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and historians' incorporation of their own theoretical reflections into their work. The way history is studied at university level can vary greatly from history at school or as represented in the media and Doing History bridges that gap. Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of history this is the ideal introduction to studying history as an academic subject at university. Doing History presents the ideas and debates that shape how we do history today, covering arguments about the nature of historical knowledge and the function of historical writing, whether we can really ever know what happened in the past, what sources historians depend on, and whether historians’ versions of history have more value than popular histories. This practical and accessible introduction to the discipline introduces students to these key discussions, familiarises them with the important terms and issues, equips them with the necessary vocabulary and encourages them to think about, and engage with, these questions. Clearly structured and accessibly written, it is an essential volume for all students embarking on the study of history.

Editing Historical Documents
Editing Historical Documents

Author: Michael E. Stevens

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780761989608

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This volume is aimed both at more experienced editors, who may wish to skip over the advice offered in the introduction, as well as at those who are new to the craft and want to know how to begin work on publishing historical documents of interest to them.

In the Presence of History
In the Presence of History

Author: Steven S. Raab

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780982338902

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In the Presence of History is a fascinating view of historical personalities through the documents, manuscripts and autographs they left behind. Readers learn how to determine quality and value, what to seek out and buy, how to sell, what to avoid, and which types of autographs are the wisest investments. The book enables novices to begin authenticating autographs for themselves. It also contains the most comprehensive color study of the documents of U.S. Presidents ever published.

Read Cursive Fast
Read Cursive Fast

Author: Kate Gladstone

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781735935805

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With READ CURSIVE FAST, now anyone who can read print can read cursive. This carefully paced manual includes step-by-step instruction along with fun practice reading passages and historical documents that systematically teach you to read cursive. The techniques in READ CURSIVE FAST have succeeded with children, teens, and adults with and without disabilities. Anyone can learn to read cursive even if they do not write by hand at all. Learn to crack the cursive code so that you can read handwritten notes or our nation's historical documents.