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  • TRACING YOUR MARGINALISED ANCESTORS
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    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...

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  • TRACING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY USING IRISH NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PRINTED MATERIALS
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    TRACING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY USING IRISH NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PRINTED MATERIALS
    NATALIE BODLE
    Tracing your Family History using Irish Newspapers is a great introduction for the family historian into Irish newspapers, journals and periodicals and how these resources can be used to paint a picture of the lives of your ancestors with so much more than what can be found in primary source material. An informative guide with hints and tips throughout, as well as case studies ...

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  • RESEARCHING LOCAL HISTORY
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    RESEARCHING LOCAL HISTORY
    STUART A RAYMOND
    How has the place we live in changed, developed, and grown over the centuries? That is the basic question local historians seek to answer. The answer is to be found in the sources of information that previous generations have left us. The records of parish, county, and diocesan administration, of the courts, of the national government, and of private estates, all have something...

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  • TRACING YOUR BRITISH AND IRISH ANCESTORS
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    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...

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  • TRACING YOUR BOER WAR ANCESTORS
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    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...

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  • TRACING YOUR JEWISH ANCESTORS
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    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 ...

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  • TRACING YOUR ROMAN CATHOLIC ANCESTORS
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    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...

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  • TRACING YOUR DOCKER ANCESTORS
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    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...

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  • TRACING YOUR OXFORDSHIRE ANCESTORS
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    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...

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  • TRACING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY WITH THE WHOLE FAMILY
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    TRACING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY WITH THE WHOLE FAMILY
    ROBIN C MCCONNELL
    This book is innovative. A plethora of genealogy books primarily assume that family history research is by adults, for adults, marking family history as an ‘adults only’ sphere of life. This book establishes a new dimension in family history research. It is written in the belief that engaging in family history is a venture for all of the present-day family, regardless of age an...

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  • TRACING YOUR BRITISH AND IRISH ANCESTORS
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    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...

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  • TRACING YOUR BELFAST ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR BELFAST ANCESTORS
    CHRIS PATON
    Straddling parts of Counties Antrim and Down, the city of Belfast has seen its fair share of history across the centuries. From its humble beginnings as a ford based settlement between two tributaries of the River Lagan, it grew following its grant of a charter in 1613 to become a corporation town, and expanded dramatically when later made a city in 1888. Along the way it has e...

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  • TRACING YOUR THEATRICAL ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR THEATRICAL ANCESTORS
    KATHARINE M COCKIN
    How can you find out about the lives of ancestors who were involved in the world of theater: on stage and on film, in the music halls and traveling shows, in the circus and in all sorts of other forms of public performance? Katharine Cockin’s handbook provides a fascinating introduction for readers searching for information about ancestors who had clearly defined roles in the w...

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  • CEMETERIES AND GRAVEYARDS
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    CEMETERIES AND GRAVEYARDS
    CELIA HERITAGE
    This comprehensive and fascinating guide from genealogist and historian Celia Heritage will prove indispensable for both local and family historians. A wide-ranging examination of historical and archaeological findings means that the book will also appeal to anyone with an interest in death and burial. Celia throws light on changing social attitudes to death and burial from pre...

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  • IDENTIFYING CAP BADGES
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    IDENTIFYING CAP BADGES
    GRAHAM BANDY
    This book is an invaluable ‘tool of the trade’ for anyone trying to identify or interpret photos. – Peter Hart, Military Historian Identifying Cap Badges is the book that has been missing from the bookshelves of family historians, military enthusiasts, and badge collectors alike. It is quite easy to find an erudite book on military cap badges, but you could spend hours, if not ...

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  • TRACING YOUR FIRST WORLD WAR ANCESTORS - SECOND EDITION
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    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...

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