Tracing Your Poor Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Raymond Stuart A.)(Paperback)

Tracing Your Poor Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Raymond Stuart A.)(Paperback)

Many people in the past - perhaps a majority - were poor. Tracing our ancestors amongst them involves consulting a wide range of sources. Stuart Raymond's handbook is the ideal guide to them.He examines the history of the poor and how they survived. Some were supported by charity. A few were lucky

Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians (Raymond Stuart A.)(Paperback)

We all have Nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century almost half of the English population were Nonconformists. And there were very few villages where there was not at least one Nonconformist chapel. Local and family historians need to be aware of the diversity of Nonconformity, and

Tracing Your Potteries Ancestors: A Guide for Family & Local Historians (Sharpe Michael)(Paperback)

Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837: A Guide for Family Historians (Oates Jonathan)(Paperback)

Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Jolly Emma)(Paperback)

Tracing Your British Indian Ancestors gives a fascinating insight into the history of the subcontinent under British rule and into the lives the British led there. It also introduces the reader to the range of historical records that can be consulted in order to throw light on the experience of

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Maxwell Ian)(Paperback)

This fully revised second edition of Ian Maxwell s Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to Scotland s long, complex and fascinating story. It is aimed primarily at family historians who are eager to explore and understand the world in which their ancestors lived

Tracing Your Docker Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Ombler Alex)(Paperback)

Alex Ombler's handbook is the first practical guide for family historians who wish to find out about family members who worked in British docks. In a series of concise, informative chapters he takes readers through the history of British ports and identifies research methods and materials - both

Tracing Your Ancestors Through the Equity Courts: A Guide for Family and Local Historians (Moore Susan T.)(Paperback)

Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs: A Complete Guide for Family and Local Historians (Shrimpton Jayne)(Paperback)

Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past

Tracing Your Female Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Emm Adle)(Paperback)

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

Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Bellerby Rachel)(Paperback)

This fully revised second edition of Rachel Bellerby s best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to find out about your Yorkshire ancestors. As well as tracing when your ancestors were born, married and died, she shows you how can explore how they lived, worked and spent their leisure

Tracing Your Lancashire Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Wilkes Sue)(Paperback)

If you want to find out about Lancashire s history, and particularly if you have family links to the area and your ancestors lived or worked in the county, then this is the ideal book for you. As well as helping you to trace when and where your ancestors were born, married and died, it gives you an

Tracing Your Oxfordshire Ancestors: A Guide for Family & Local Historians (Lisle Nicola)(Paperback)

Oxfordshire has a proud history as an agricultural county, relying for centuries on the wool trade for its prosperity. It is also famous for the founding of Oxford University in the eleventh century and for the Morris Motors car factory established in Oxford in 1912. The county is richly endowed

Tracing Your Army Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Fowler Simon)(Paperback)

Whether you are interested in the career of an individual officer, researching medals awarded to a soldier, or just want to know more about a particular battle or campaign, this book will point you in the right direction. Assuming the reader has no prior knowledge of the British Army, its history

Tracing Your Kent Ancestors: A Guide for Family and Local Historians (Wright David)(Paperback)

Genealogically and historically, Kent is an important maritime county which has played a prime defensive role in English history. It is large and diverse and replete with great houses, castles and other family homes, many with their own archives. It is also a fascinating area of research for family

Tracing Your Prisoner Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Wade Stephen)(Paperback)

The history of the British prison system only had systematic records from the middle of the nineteenth century. Before that, material on prisoners in local jails and houses of correction was patchy and minimal. In more recent times, many prison records have been destroyed.In Tracing Your Prisoner

Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Elliott Brian)(Paperback)

In the 1920s there were over a million coal miners 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

Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Blake Paul)(Paperback)

Debtors' prisons are infamous but very little has been written about the records of those confined within them in London or elsewhere in the country. Even less has been written about the trials of those who were often incarcerated following misfortune or mismanagement rather than criminal intent

How Our Ancestors Died: A Guide for Family Historians (Wills Simon)(Paperback)

Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors (Pearson Michael)(Paperback)

The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their trail leads through it. And yet, despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy and the importance of the region in so

Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records: A Guide for Family Historians (Paton Chris)(Paperback)

A practical guide to understanding the unique genealogical landscape of Scottish family history

Tracing Your Ancestors (Fowler Simon)(Paperback)

This accessible, well-organized, easy-to-use beginners guide to the world of family history is essential reading for anyone who wants to find their way into this fascinating subject. In a series of short, practical chapters Simon Fowler takes readers through all the first steps that will reveal the

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors - Second Edition (Maxwell Ian)(Paperback / softback)

The second edition of Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors 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

Tracing Your Manchester and Salford Ancestors (Wilkes Sue)(Paperback / softback)

For readers with family ties to Manchester and Salford, and researchers delving into the rich history of these cities, this informative, accessible guide will be essential reading and a fascinating source of reference. Sue Wilkes outlines the social and family history of the region in a series of