Local Family History in England
Author: Colin Darlington Rogers
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780719032011
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English Local History
Author: Kate Tiller
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible introduction to researching English local history from original records and written sources.
The Oxford Companion to Family and Local History
Author: David Hey
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-02-25
Total Pages: 1060
ISBN-13: 0191044938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Companion to Family and Local History is the most authoritative guide available to all things associated with the family and local history of the British Isles. It provides practical and contextual information for anyone enquiring into their English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh origins and for anyone working in genealogical research, or the social history of the British Isles. This fully revised and updated edition contains over 2,000 entries from adoption to World War records. Recommended web links for many entries are accessed and updated via the Family and Local History companion website. This edition provides guidance on how to research your family tree using the internet and details the full range of online resources available. Newly structured for ease of use, thematic articles are followed by the A-Z dictionary and detailed appendices, which includefurther reading. New articles for this edition are: A Guide for Beginners, Links between British and American Families, Black and Asian Family History, and an extended feature on Names. With handy research tips, a full background to the social history of communities and individuals, and an updated appendix listing all national and local record offices with their contact details, this is an essential reference work for anyone wanting advice on how to approach genealogical research, as well as a fascinating read for anyone interested in the past.
Christian Names in Local and Family History
Author: George Redmonds
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2004-04-13
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1554881323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurnames have always provided key links in historical research. This groundbreaking new work shows that first names can also be highly significant for those tracing genealogies or studying communities. Standard works on first names have always concentrated on etymology. George Redmonds goes much further: he believes that every name has a precise origin and history of expansion, which can be regional or even local; up to c. 1700 it may even have centred on one family. This text fully explores the implications of this belief for local and family history, and challenges many published assumptions on the historical frequency of first names.
The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers
Author: Phillimore & Co
Publisher: Chichester, Sussex, England : Phillimore
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of parish maps of every county of England and Wales; each map being a reproduction of a topographical map from James Bell's A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1834. Also contains an index to the whereabouts of those records to which the maps refer.
Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History
Author: Bruce Durie
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780752464640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce genealogists and local historians have learned everything they can from internet sources, the next step is reading and understanding older documents. The author details how to find and comprehend documents in England, Wales and Scotland from 1560 to 1860. These can be hard to find, are often written in challenging handwriting and use Latin, antiquated English or Scots.
Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries
Author: Ruth A. Symes
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2016-07-31
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1473862965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds.This book is an updated edition of Ruth Symes previous book, titled Stories From Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors Within Living Memory (2008).
The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History
Author: David Hey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides both amateur and professional local and family historians with answers to questions they may have about terminology.
Reader's Guide to British History
Author: David Loades
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 4319
ISBN-13: 1000144364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Family Tree Detective
Author: Colin D. Rogers
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780719052132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcomed worldwide on its first publication, this practical and lively guide for the amateur genealogist has now been fully revised and updated. The new material includes a section on medieval genealogy which targets the increasing numbers of family historians who have reached back as far as the sixteenth century and wish to go further. Heraldry is introduced for the first time. There is detail on the location and genealogical content of military records and the records of Poor Law Unions and their workhouses. Details are also included of the latest changes to the location and cost of civil registration sources. A problem-solving manual rather than a simple how-to guide, The family tree detective explains what to do when the usual methods fail and provides invaluable assistance for those without access to London’s vast resources of genealogical information.
