Tracing Your Family History: How to Get Started Discover And Record Your Personal Roots And Heritage: Everything From Accessing Archives And Public Record Offices To Using The Internet With More Than 200 Colour Photographs

by Chater, Kathy

• ISBN13: 9781844763269
• ISBN10: 1844763269
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-14
• Publisher: Southwater

Summary

Accessible and clear advice explaining the best research techniques, with instructions on how to log, organise and collate your research, and how to draw up a basic family tree.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
First steps
How to begin	p. 8
Family photographs	p. 12
A basic family tree	p. 14
Names	p. 18
Keeping records	p. 20
Back to the early 1800s
Certificates after 1837	p. 22
Other indexes at the Family Record Centre	p. 26
Censuses	p. 28
The International Genealogical Index and other indexes	p. 32
Published material	p. 34
Using the Internet	p. 36
Wills, administrations and death duties	p. 40
Inquests	p. 44
Other countries in the British Isles
Welsh Records	p. 46
Scottish Records	p. 48
Irish Records	p. 52
Channel Island Records	p. 56
Isle of Man Records	p. 58
Working lives
Education	p. 60
Apprenticeships	p. 64
Guilds and freemen	p. 66
The professions	p. 68
Other occupations	p. 72
Licences	p. 76
Elections, poll books and electoral registers	p. 78
Trade unions and friendly societies	p. 80
For Crown and Country
Members of the armed forces	p. 82
Army records	p. 85
Royal Air Force records	p. 88
Royal Navy records	p. 90
Lifecycle checklist	p. 94
Index	p. 96
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