ANCESTRAL TRAILS: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO BRITISH GENEALOGY AND FAMILY HISTORY
Written by Mark Herber
Published by Sutton Publishing
in 2004
ISBN: 0750935103
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- GENEALOGY
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Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
- Chapter 2 PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS AND MEMORABILIA
- Chapter 3 ORGANISATION OF YOUR RESEARCH MATERIAL
- Chapter 4 GENERAL PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY RESEARCHERS
- Chapter 5 CIVIL REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS
- Chapter 6 CENSUS RETURNS
- Chapter 7 PARISH REGISTERS
- Chapter 8 CHURCHYARDS AND CEMETERIES
- Chapter 9 DIRECTORIES
- Chapter 10 COMBINING SOURCES OF INFORMATION
- Chapter 11 ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES AND FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETIES
- Chapter 12 WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS
- Chapter 13 CATHOLIC, NON-CONFORMIST AND JEWISH RECORDS
- Chapter 14 MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
- Chapter 15 MAPS, LAND REGISTRATION AND PROPERTY RECORDS
- Chapter 16 LOCAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY
- Chapter 17 NEWSPAPERS AND ELECTIONS
- Chapter 18 PARISH AND TOWN RECORDS
- Chapter 19 EDUCATION
- Chapter 20 RECORDS OF THE ARMY, ROYAL MARINES AND ROYAL AIR FORCE
- Chapter 21 RECORDS OF SHIPPING AND SEAMEN
- Chapter 22 RECORDS OF TRADES, PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESS
- Chapter 23 OATS, TAXATION AND INSURANCE RECORDS
- Chapter 24 RECORDS OF THE CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS
- Chapter 25 RECORDS OF THE CRIMINAL COURTS AND CRIMINALS
- Chapter 26 PEERAGES, THE GENTRY, FAMOUS PEOPLE AND HERALDRY
- Chapter 27 FURTHER PROPERTY RECORDS
- Chapter 28 TRACING MIGRANTS AND LIVING RELATIVES
- Chapter 29 SCOTLAND, WALES, IRELAND, THE ISLE OF MAN AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS
- Chapter 30 IMMIGRATION, EMIGRATION AND INVESTIGATION ABROAD
- Appendix I Codes for Areas and Volumes in the Gro Indexes
- Appendix II Indexes to other Gro Records
- Appendix III Chapman County Codes
- Appendix IV Seize Quartiers of Bessie Maud Symes
- Appendix V Extracts from the Bulleid and Keates Family Trees
- Appendix VI The National Archives Information Leaflet
- Appendix VII County Record Offices and Other Archives
- Appendix VIII Commencement Dates of the Reigns of English and British Monarchs
- Appendix IX Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury: A summary of finding-aids
- Appendix X Records of the Court of Chancery: A Summary of Finding-aids
- Appendix XI Web sites for family historian
- Bibliography
- Index