There is no better book to get beginners started in America's top hobby: genealogy!This new 7th edition is an easy-to-read guide to beginning genealogy. Quillen teaches the basics of getting started a
DNA research is one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas in modern science and the practical use of DNA testing in genealogy is one of its most exciting applications. Yet there is no rece
The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogic
A comprehensive guide to dating and interpreting family photographs, the book uses as examples over 150 previously unpublished images. Written by one of the Britain's leading photograph historians
A comprehensive introduction to English and Welsh parish records. Raymond explains how they give insight into the life and times of individuals in the past. He describes the origin of these documents,
A detailed, yet accessible introduction for anyone researching the life of an ancestor in the United Kingdom, using census records. It covers the records of all the constituent parts of the British Is
Tracing Your Ancestors’ Lives is not a comprehensive study of social history but instead an exploration of the various aspects of social history of particular interest to the family historian. It has
The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow – the records are plentiful, accessible and commonly used. But how do you go back
This highly accessible, authoritative guide to death records covers death certificates, burial entries, inquest records, obituaries, wills, gravestones and other sources.
Gill Blanchard's practical and informative handbook will help you to trace your ancestors in the traditional counties of East Anglia Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex and it will give you an
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great
The records of the Courts of Equity, which dealt with cases of fairness rather than law, are among the most detailed, extensive and revealing of all the legal documents historians can consult, yet the
For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and other county officials
Offers information on locating birth, marriage, and death certificates, emigration registers, guild records, vaccination lists, census returns, church records, orphan lists, and other documentation ne
