Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family HistoryThis is a comprehensive, illustrated guide to tracing British ancestry, equally suitable for beginners and those who have already started the search for their roots. The book guides the researcher for their roots. The book guides the researcher through the substantial British archives with a detailed finding aids or indexes. the early chapters include advice on obtaining information from relatives, drawing on family trees and starting research in the records of births, marriages and deaths, or in census records; later chapters guide researchers to the records that are ore that are more difficult to find and use, such as legal and property records. |
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Page 471
... prisoners awaiting trial . At first , prisons rarely held people as a punishment for crimes ( in part because so many crimes carried the death penalty ) , but sentences of imprisonment became increasingly common . There were also some ...
... prisoners awaiting trial . At first , prisons rarely held people as a punishment for crimes ( in part because so many crimes carried the death penalty ) , but sentences of imprisonment became increasingly common . There were also some ...
Page 473
... prisons were required to compile registers of prisoners who had been convicted of certain crimes , detailing the prisoner's age , trade , offence and sentence , as well as previous convictions , then send them to a central registry ...
... prisons were required to compile registers of prisoners who had been convicted of certain crimes , detailing the prisoner's age , trade , offence and sentence , as well as previous convictions , then send them to a central registry ...
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... prisons and prisoners Garner , Bessie Jane ( g grandmother ) 49–50 Garner , Charles Richard 17 , 315 , 316 , 338 , 353 Garner , George , William and Thomas 353 gazetteers 257-8 Genealogical Computing 26 genealogical directories 7 The ...
... prisons and prisoners Garner , Bessie Jane ( g grandmother ) 49–50 Garner , Charles Richard 17 , 315 , 316 , 338 , 353 Garner , George , William and Thomas 353 gazetteers 257-8 Genealogical Computing 26 genealogical directories 7 The ...
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