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By Pamela Horn. By the end of the Victorian era nearly a third of all women and also many men in England and Wales had been a domestic worker at some time in their lives. This book seeks to give some guidance in researching ancestors who were in service or who themselves employed domestic staff.
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By Jayne Shrimpton.This comprehensive guide, in colour and illustrated with around 220 images, is essential reading for anyone researching their family pictures. This is the first book to cover inherited artworks - paintings and drawings- silhouettes and photographs, spanning the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. The author is a professional dress historian, with over 20 years experience of dating and analysing family pictures.
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By Jayne Shrimpton. This comprehensive guide, in colour and illustrated with around 220 images, is essential reading for anyone researching their family pictures. This is the first book to cover inherited artworks - paintings and drawings- silhouettes and photographs, spanning the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. The author is a professional dress historian, with over 20 years experience of dating and analysing family pictures.
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By John Titford FSG. This book is a comprehensive guide to locating and using records of British ancestors who moved to the British West Indies, and also Bermuda, British Guiana (Guyana) and British Honduras (Belize). Arranged in an easy to use, territory by territory format, John Titford's book will guide you through the available records, and also warn you of the pitfalls which may lay along the way.
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By John Titford FSG. This book is a comprehensive guide to locating and using records of British ancestors who moved to the British West Indies, and also Bermuda, British Guiana (Guyana) and British Honduras (Belize). Arranged in an easy to use, territory by territory format, John Titford's book will guide you through the available records, and also warn you of THE pitfalls which may lay along the way.
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By Michael Watts and Christopher Watts. A brand new edition of this book, aiding the modern family historian in researching their ancestors who served in the British Army from 1660. The book covers the wealth of sources available in archives and online.
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By Michael Watts and Christopher Watts. A brand new edition of this book aids the modern family historian in researching their ancestors who served in the British Army from 1660. The book covers the wealth of sources available in archives and online.
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By Robert Pols. A guide to tracing the career and work of ancestors who worked in commercial studio photography. This book also demonstrates how you may be able to trace surviving examples of your ancestor's work.
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By Ian Waller. This book will be of interest to all genealogists and family historians. Most family trees contain an agricultural labourer somewhere and Ian Waller's book enables you to understand the social and economic context of their lives while outlining the various records available to research these ubiquitous ancestors. Named Best Occupational History Book of 2008 by Family History Monthly magazine.
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By Cliff Webb. New edition of this popular title enables the reader to trace ancestors who lived and worked in London. A large proportion of our population has always lived in the London area and most genealogists will stumble across a Londoner in their research sooner or later!
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By Stuart Raymond. A comprehensive guide to apprenticeship sources and records. Includes an explanation of different types of apprentice and an histoy of apprenticeships in this country.
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By Sharon Sillers Floate. A fully revised new edition of the definitive guide to tracing Gypsy ancestors.
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By David Tonks. This fully revised second edition is an essential tool for anyone wishing to research coalmining ancestors.
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By David Tonks. This fully revised second edition is an essential tool for anyone wishing to research their coalmining ancestors.
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By Frank Hardy FSG. A complete guide to using railway records, covering all aspects of this hugely significant industry. The book includes a potted history of our railways, case studies and a comprehensive resources section.
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By Frank Hardy. A complete guide to using railway records, covering all aspects of this hugely significant industry. The book includes a potted history of our railways, case studies and a comprehensive resources section.
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By John Hanson FSG. The 1911 census is radically different from previously released census returns. This book aims to help you to get the best from it, with detailed explanations of each part of the site and plenty of useful hints and tips.
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By Ken Divall. This book gives guidance in tracing ancestors who served in the Royal Marines. The book outlines the records available and where to find them and includes a chapter on the history of the service.
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A family historian's guide to sources for illegitimacy in England and Wales, this book provides an introduction to the world of the unmarried mother and her child and discusses how best to formulate a research strategy. It describes available sources: where to find them, how to use them and what information they contain. Includes a directory of useful websites and a useful glossary for the weird and wonderful synonyms for bastardy that you are likely to encounter in the course of your research. Finally there is a step by step guide that will help you draw up a research plan tailored to your own needs. Written by Ruth Paley.
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By James Legon. This is a fully revised edtion of this unique guide to tracing watermen and lightermen who worked on the Thames.
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By James Legon. This is a fully revised edition of this unique guide to tracing watermen and lightermen who worked on the Thames.
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By Dr. Anthony Joseph. This comprehensive guide to tracing Jewish ancestors in the UK also includes a chapter on researching Jewish ancestry abroad.
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By Dr. Anthony Joseph. This comprehensive guide to tracing Jewish ancestors in the UK also includes a chapter on reseaching Jewish ancestry abroad.
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My Ancestor was a Merchant Seaman by Christopher and Michael Watts. The new and heavily revised edition is some two thirds bigger than the first edition and is sure to become one of the `bibles` for family historians wanting to research ancient mariners. Packed full of places to search and the records that can be found in such record offices and archives, full listings of the same, their class and piece numbers, what to look for and where to find little known records.
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All at sea finding the birth, death or even marriage of one of your ancestors? Well perhaps the event did actually take place at sea. This book will help guide you through the myth and fact of what records there are to help you discover the truth. Written by Christopher & Michael Watts 2004
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My Ancestor was a Lawyer by Brian Brooks and Mark Herber gives an overview of the legal profession in England and Wales and it's records. Chapters include lawyers and their societies, institutions and records, published records of lawyers, records of the courts and much more. There is also a section on lawyers in Scotland, Ireland and English lawyers overseas.
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My Ancestor was an Anglican Clergyman by Peter Towey is a very useful guide for anyone researching their clergymen ancestors. Topics discussed include published sources, sources from the English Civil War up to the nineteenth century, the structure and hierarchy of the church and the education and training of the clergy.
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My Ancestor was an Anglican Clergyman by Peter Towey is a very useful guide for anyone researching their clergymen ancestors. Topics discussed include published sources, sources from the English Civil War up to the nineteenth century, the structure and hierarchy of the church and the education and training of the clergy. Published 2006
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By Pat Lewis. This book deals with the history of Freemasonry and how to find the records of Freemason ancestors. Also includes chapters on Freemasonry publications, women Freemasons, lodges, prisoners of war and record repositories. 3rd edition 2005.
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By Pat Lewis.
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This book provides a brief history of the theatre in Britain and identifies libraries and record repositories, etc. where research can be undertaken as well as examples of how Victorian showmen were successfully traced and researched. Contents include newspapers, playbills, biographies, fairs and circuses, music hall, sources in Ireland and Scotland, specialist archives and collections and more. By Alan Ruston.
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This book provides a brief history of the theatre in Britain and identifies libraries and record repositories, etc. where research can be undertaken as well as examples of how Victorian showmen were successfully traced and researched. Contents include newspapers, playbills, biographies, fair and circuses, music hall, sources in Ireland and Scotland, specialist archives and collections and more. By Alan Ruston.
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by Peter Park. A very useful book covering the feudal system, the manor court, land tenure, customs of the manor, court rolls & other records and finding records. Contains a very handy, extensive glossary and a useful bibliography. This makes an interesting, informative read for all family & local historians who would like to know more about medieval records and daily life.
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By Geoffrey R Breed.
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By David Clifford.
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By David Clifford
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By Anthony Camp.
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By Antony Shearman.
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By Alan Ruston.
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by W S B Buck
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By Cliff Webb
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by Cliff Webb 1989
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by Ray Wiggins
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by Cliff Webb 1999
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By Cliff Webb. An alphabetical index of London hospitals and their records, this book includes information on hospitals both past and present. This source lists types of records to be found and where to find them. There is a handy section listing hospitals by postal district.
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By Cliff Webb,
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By Cliff Webb, 1999
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by Tony Benton, Significantly updated from the 1st edition in 1993, this book covers marriage law, 16th & early 17th marriages, 1690s legislation, Fleet marriages & registers, marriage by licence and more. 2nd edition 2000
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By Cliff Webb.