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RESEARCH
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Comprehensive
Overall Guide |
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Ancestral
Trails (paperback version) |
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Suited
to both beginners and experienced family historians, this weighty book (it
contains over 800 pages) guides the researcher with a comprehensive and
detailed view of records and published sources available. It is written
in a very informative and non-patronising way and the sheer quantity and
quality of information is very impressive. |
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Author |
Mark
Herber |
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Published |
2006 |
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online at Amazon
(for £15.49) or at my-history.co.uk
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Overcoming
Research Brickwalls |
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Smart
Family History |
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A
concise and informative guide to breaking through brickwalls in your family
history research. The strength of this book lies in its well explained methodology
and tips on where to look when the usual lines of research have been exhausted.
There is a wealth of intelligent advice on looking deeper within or beyond
the standard census and civil registration searches. |
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Author |
Geoff
Swinfield |
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Published |
2006 |
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online at Amazon
(for £6.04) or at my-history.co.uk
(for £6.95) |
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Medieval
Period Research |
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Medieval
Genealogy |
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A
very useful book on tracing ancestors past the 1600s into the medieval period.
It provides a clear and comprehensive guide to the wealth of records available
and the techniques needed to find and understand them. |
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Author |
Paul
Chambers |
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Published |
2005 |
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Purchase
online at Amazon
(for £18.99) or at the Institute
of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies Online Shop (for £25.00) |
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Tracing
Living Relations |
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People
Finder |
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author of this book runs a specialist living persons search agency and her
background in counseling underpins this publication. She is keen to stress
the emotional context of this kind of research. This book comprehensively
covers the various sources (directory enquiries, electoral roll, email directories,
search engines, message boards, etc.). Although family historians are normally
urged to work backwards, the author specialise in working forwards to trace
living descendants. The scope of this book is inevitably more diffuse than
genealogy alone. |
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Author |
Karen
Bali |
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Published |
2007 |
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Purchase
online at Amazon
(for £6.49) or at Blackwell
Online (for £9.99) |
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DNA
Research |
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Family
History in the Genes |
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This
book goes a long way to demystifying the subject of DNA and making the
concept of using DNA analysis more accessible to family historians. This
clear, concise guide shows how the use of genetics can help family historians
link people with the same surname and unravel family relationships. It
offers practical advice on the DNA tests available.
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Author |
Chris
Pomery |
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Published |
2007 |
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Purchase
online at Amazon
(for £5.99) or at the Society
of Genealogists Online Shop (for £7.99) |
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Census |
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Making
Sense of the Census Revisited |
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If
you are looking for a guide to the censuses from 1801 to 1901 it would be
difficult to find a more thorough and comprehensive one than this. The tone
may be a little dry and scholarly at times but the content is invaluable. |
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Author |
Edward
Higgs |
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Published |
2007 |
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Purchase
online at National
Archives Bookshop (for £12.00) |
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Wills |
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Wills
and Other Probate Records |
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This
book comprehensively covers wills and other probate records. This valuable
source of genealogical information can seem complex, particularly those
scattered records relating to pre 1858 wills which were administrated
in a network of church courts. This well written book makes sense of the
records and the institutions to approach as well as the indexes and internet
resources increasingly available. |
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Authors |
Karen
Grannum and Nigel Taylor |
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Published |
2004 |
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online at National
Archives Bookshop (for £14.99) |
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Surnames |
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Searching
for Surnames |
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This
helpful guide takes a step-by-step approach to surname identification.
It includes a series of surname 'surgeries' and case studies that illustrate
various techniques for finding the meaning of a surname.
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Author |
John
Titford |
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Published |
2002 |
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online at National
Archives Bookshop (for £11.95) |
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Heraldry |
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Discovering
Heraldry |
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This
useful book makes understanding heraldry relatively straightforward. It
describes and illustrates heraldic terms in simple language and covers
the basic principles so the reader is able to understand with relative
ease both what a coat of arms consists of and what are the rules for governing
its arrangement.
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Author |
Jacqueline
Fearn |
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Published |
2006 |
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Purchase
online at Amazon
(for £4.79) or at the Institute
of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies Online Shop (for £5.99) |
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Migration |
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Family
History on the Move |
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An
excellent guide to migration both into and out of the UK. The first half
of this book focuses on inward migration from the Huguenots right through
to Asian and Caribbean immigration. The second half concentrates on outward
migration to North America, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the
commonwealth. |
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Authors |
Roger
Kershaw and Mark Pearsall |
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Published |
2006 |
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Purchase
online at Amazon
(for £5.59) or at the National Archives Bookshop
(for £6.99) |
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