Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in England and WalesWelcomed 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. |
Contents
Looking for parents | 15 |
Church baptism 1538 to the present day | 74 |
Military records and school registers | 123 |
Looking for marriages | 140 |
Looking for deaths | 180 |
Epilogue | 228 |
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Common terms and phrases
adopted ancestors Anglican areas banns baptism birth certificate birth entry born British burial buried census cent ceremony Cheshire child Church column copy Council Offices county record offices court death entry deceased documents East England and Wales example Family History Societies Family Records Centre Family Tree Magazine father Federation of Family forenames Gibson gravestone Historian House illegitimate individual International Genealogical Index John Lancashire large number Library licence lived London Lord maiden name Manchester manorial marriage entry married microfilm mother nineteenth century normally North North Yorkshire occupation original parents parish register person place of birth probate problem Public Record Office published reference number Register Office Registration District Registration Service relatives Ringley Road seventeenth century Smith Society of Genealogists sometimes sources South Street superintendent registrar surname Surrey surviving Town Hall trace transcripts widow wife