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  • RESEARCHING ANCESTRAL CRISIS IN IRELAND
    CHRIS PATON
    Examines Ireland's darkest historical crises over the past 400 years and their impact on our ancestors. Ireland is an extraordinarily beautiful island from which millions can claim their direct ancestry. But Ireland is also an island which has experienced some truly extraordinary moments of crisis which will have directly impacted our forebears, helping to shape us into the ind...

    $191.99

  • TRACING YOUR DOCKER ANCESTORS
    ALEX OMBLER
    Alex Ombler’s handbook is the first practical guide for family historians who wish to find out about family members who worked in British docks. In a series of concise, informative chapters he takes readers through the history of British ports and identifies research methods and materials – both local and national – through which they can discover the lives and experiences of t...

    $183.99

  • TRACING YOUR OXFORDSHIRE ANCESTORS
    NICOLA LISLE
    Oxfordshire has a proud history as an agricultural county, relying for centuries on the wool trade for its prosperity. It is also famous for the founding of Oxford University in the eleventh century and for the Morris Motors car factory established in Oxford in 1912. The county is richly endowed with churches, museums, stately homes, industrial heritage sites and other places o...

    $152.99

  • TRACING YOUR ROMAN CATHOLIC ANCESTORS
    STUART A RAYMOND
    Tracing Your Roman Catholic Ancestors is the ideal handbook for readers and researchers who are keen to find out about their Roman Catholic ancestors and for anyone who wants an introduction to Roman Catholic history in general. Stuart Raymond provides a brief historical account covering the Roman Catholics from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, then goes on to identify...

    $164.99

  • TRACING YOUR BOER WAR ANCESTORS
    JANE MARCHESE ROBINSON
    The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons , mainly volunteers , traveled 6,000 miles to fight and die in boiling conditions on the veld and atop ‘kopjes’. Of the over 20,000 who died more than half suffered enteric, an illness consequent on insanitary water. This book will act as an informative rese...

    $191.99

  • TRACING YOUR BRITISH AND IRISH ANCESTORS
    JONATHAN SCOTT
    Jonathan Scott is a freelance writer specializing in family history. He is a former deputy editor of Family History Monthly and has penned the ‘Best Websites’ column for Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine since 2007. He also writes the magazine’s monthly ‘Around Britain’ feature and compiles the end-of-year look-ahead at developments online. In addition to his work in family hi...

    $175.99

  • TRACING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS
    ROSEMARY WENZERUL
    This fully revised second edition of Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the entire process of research. She provides a brief social history of the Jewish presence in Britain and looks ...

    $191.99

  • TRACING YOUR SCOTTISH ANCESTRY THROUGH CHURCH AND STATE RECORDS
    CHRIS PATON
    Despite its Union with England and Wales in 1707, Scotland remained virtually independent from its partners in many ways, retaining its own legal system, its own state church, and its own education system. In Tracing Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records, genealogist Chris Paton examines the most common records used by family historians in Scotland, ranging from th...

    $166.19

  • TRACING YOUR BRITISH AND IRISH ANCESTORS
    JONATHAN SCOTT
    Finding a way into the sources for British and Irish family history can be a daunting task if you live overseas and have little knowledge of the archives you can go to and the way in which they can be used. That is why this introductory book will be so valuable for anyone who is trying to trace their British and Irish ancestors and gain an understanding of their lives and the w...

    $176.17

  • TRACING YOUR BOER WAR ANCESTORS
    JANE MARCHESE ROBINSON
    The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons , mainly volunteers , traveled 6,000 miles to fight and die in boiling conditions on the veld and atop ‘kopjes’. Of the over 20,000 who died more than half suffered enteric, an illness consequent on insanitary water. This book will act as an informative rese...

    $191.52

  • TRACING YOUR FIRST WORLD WAR ANCESTORS - SECOND EDITION
    SIMON FOWLER
    The First World War was perhaps the most traumatic event of the Twentieth Century. Millions of men, women and children were affected by it. And it still has a resonance today more than a hundred years after the Armistice. This guide offers a simple, yet comprehensive, guide to researching the men and women from Britain - and its dominions and colonies - who took part in the Fir...

    $159.00

  • TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS USING DNA - REVISED EDITION
    GRAHAM S HOLTON
    Provides a clear, accessible introduction to using DNA testing in genealogy, with practical guidance and case studies. 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. This accessible, wide-ranging introduction, the first British publication in this...

    $165.99

  • TRACING YOUR STAFFORDSHIRE ANCESTORS
    CHLOE O'SHEA
    Whether you're just beginning your genealogical journey or have been tracing your family tree for years, Tracing your Staffordshire Ancestors provides a comprehensive roadmap to uncovering your family history in the heart of England. Delve into a variety of historical records, from the well-known census and parish registers to the less-explored realms of manorial court rolls, t...

    $191.99

  • TRACING YOUR MARGINALISED ANCESTORS
    JANET FEW
    Often, our most fascinating ancestors are those on society’s margins. They might have been discriminated against due to personal misfortune, or have been a victim of society’s fear of difference. You may have ancestors who were poor, or sick, illegitimate, or lawbreakers. Were your family stigmatised because of their ethnicity? Perhaps they struggled with alcoholism, were prost...

    $165.99