Tracing Your Marginalised Ancestors
Tracing Your Marginalised Ancestors

Author: Janet Few

Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781399061858

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Often, our most fascinating ancestors are those on society's margins. They might have been discriminated against due to personal misfortune, or have been a victim of society's fear of difference. You may have ancestors who were poor, or sick, illegitimate, or lawbreakers. Were your family stigmatised because of their ethnicity? Perhaps they struggled with alcoholism, were prostitutes, or were accused of witchcraft. This book will help you find out more about them and the times in which they lived. The nature of this book means that it deals with subjects that can make uncomfortable reading but it is important to confront these issues as we try to understand our ancestors and the society that led to them becoming marginalised. In Tracing your Marginalised Ancestors, you will find plenty of suggestions to help you uncover the stories of these, often elusive, groups of people. Will you accept the challenge to seek out your marginalised ancestors and tell their stories?

Tracing Your Marginalised Ancestors
Tracing Your Marginalised Ancestors

Author: Janet Few

Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1399061860

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Often, our most fascinating ancestors are those on society’s margins. They might have been discriminated against due to personal misfortune, or have been a victim of society’s fear of difference. You may have ancestors who were poor, or sick, illegitimate, or lawbreakers. Were your family stigmatised because of their ethnicity? Perhaps they struggled with alcoholism, were prostitutes, or were accused of witchcraft. This book will help you find out more about them and the times in which they lived. The nature of this book means that it deals with subjects that can make uncomfortable reading but it is important to confront these issues as we try to understand our ancestors and the society that led to them becoming marginalised. In Tracing your Marginalised Ancestors, you will find plenty of suggestions to help you uncover the stories of these, often elusive, groups of people. Will you accept the challenge to seek out your marginalised ancestors and tell their stories?

Tracing Your Ancestry
Tracing Your Ancestry

Author: F. Wilbur Helmbold

Publisher: Birmingham, Ala. : Oxmoor House, c1976, 1977 printing.

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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Explains procedures for searching birth and marriage certificates, wills, land records, maps, tax records, newspaper obituaries, church and cemetary records, old letters, and diaries.

Tracking Down Your Ancestors
Tracking Down Your Ancestors

Author: Harry Alder

Publisher: How To Books Ltd

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781857038286

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Researching your family history can be an absorbing hobby, or a one-off project that your whole family will value and build on. This book is packed with ideas about the different aspects of genealogy and the main free or low cost resources available to help you in your quest. CONTENTS: Getting started - online family searching - harnessing internet sources - tearless transcribing - organised support - vital public records - interpreting old records - getting to know your ancestors About the author Dr Harry Alder is a prolific writer and long-time researcher. Here he passes on his passion for genealogy, his first-hand experience, lots of practical tips and key websites to support your research.

Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives
Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives

Author: Barbara J Starmans

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books

Published: 2017-04

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781473879713

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Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives is not a comprehensive study of social history but instead an exploration of the various aspects of social history of particular interest to the family historian. It has been written to help researchers to go beyond the names, dates and places in their pedigree back to the time when their ancestors lived. Through the research advice, resources and case studies in the book, researchers can learn about their ancestors, their families and the society they lived in and record their stories for generations to come. Each chapter highlights an important general area of study. Topics covered include the family and society; domestic life; birth life and death; work, wages and economy; community, religion and government. Barbara J. Starmans's handbook encourages family historians to immerse themselves more deeply in their ancestors' time and place. Her work will give researchers a fascinating insight into what their ancestors' lives were like.

Tracing Your Roots
Tracing Your Roots

Author: Meg Wheeler

Publisher: Smithmark Publishers

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780765197740

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Offers advice on doing genealogical work with government, land, church, and immigration records.

Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots

Author: Jeane Eddy Westin

Publisher: Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Using the simple, time-and-money-saving techniques in this handbook, you can tap the roots of your own family without the services of a professional tracer. Supplied here are hundreds of helpful sources from specialty libraries to heraldic societies. Everything you need to discover and record a complete family history including how to: Compile a family health history; Find out if your family has a coat of arms; Trace your ancestral roots abroad; Write a complete family history; . . . and much more!

Tracing Your Female Ancestors
Tracing Your Female Ancestors

Author: Adéle Emm

Publisher: Pen & Sword Family History

Published: 2019-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781526730138

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Everyone has a mother and a line of female ancestors and often their paths through life are hard to trace. That is why this detailed, accessible handbook is of such value, for it explores the lives of female ancestors from the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 to the beginning of the First World War. In 1815 a woman was the chattel of her husband; by 1914, when the menfolk were embarking on one of the most disastrous wars ever known, the women at home were taking on jobs and responsibilities never before imagined. Adèle Emm's work is the ideal introduction to the role of women during this period of dramatic social change. Chapters cover the quintessential experiences of birth, marriage and death, a woman's working and daily life both middle and working class, through to crime and punishment, the acquisition of an education and the fight for equality. Each chapter gives advice on where further resources, archives, wills, newspapers and websites can be found, with plentiful common sense advice on how to use them.