Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries

Unearthing Family Tree Mysteries
Author: Ruth A. Symes
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-07-31
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1473862965

The intriguing characters in these real family history mysteries include an agricultural labourer who left secrets behind in Somerset when he migrated to Manchester, a working-class woman who bafflingly lost ten of her fourteen children in infancy, a miner who purportedly went to live with the Red Indians and a merchant prince of the Empire who was rumoured to have two wives. This book shows how a variety of sources including birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, newspaper reports, passports, recipe books, trade directories, diaries and passenger lists were all used to uncover more, and how much can be detected by setting the characters from your family tree in their proper historical backgrounds.This book is an updated edition of Ruth Symes previous book, titled Stories From Your Family Tree: Researching Ancestors Within Living Memory (2008).

Walford's Guide to Reference Material: Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion

Walford's Guide to Reference Material: Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion
Author: Albert John Walford
Publisher: London : Library Association Publishing
Total Pages: 1168
Release: 1996
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

This new edition of Volume II (last published in 1994) has been extensively expanded and revised in all areas. Fully updated, the new edition includes major changes and covers a span of topics from archaeology through medieval history to statistics. It includes philosophy, psychology, religion, social sciences, geography, biology and history. All areas have been completely updated with additional material in economics, business and management.

Genealogy for Librarians

Genealogy for Librarians
Author: Richard Harvey
Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

This guide, written by a librarian at Guildhall Library, London, gives comprehensive coverage to the sources which can provide information required by professional or amateur genealogists. While concentrating on English sources, guidance is also given for Welsh, Scottish, and Irish sources, and brief mention of other European sources is made. The introductory chapter examines the role of the librarian in assisting the genealogist. This edition (first was 1983) has been thoroughly revised and updated, and now includes a bibliography. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Royal Historical Society Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History

Royal Historical Society Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History
Author: Barbara English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198201861

The Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and articles on historical topics published in a single calendar year. It is divided into sections, covering British and Irish history from Roman Britain to the late twentieth century, and is arranged alphabetically. Founded in 1976, this is the first volume to be published by Oxford University Press and includes a number of new features. Contents are now indexed by author, place, personal name, and subject, and a new section on imperial and colonial history has been added.

The Local Historian

The Local Historian
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1994
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Issues for autumn 1961- include the Standing Conference for Local History Bulletin.

Walford's Concise Guide to Reference Material

Walford's Concise Guide to Reference Material
Author: Albert John Walford
Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK)
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

This is a shortened version of the three volume Walford's Guide to Reference Material, 5th edition: Volume 1, Science and Technology (1989), Volume 2, Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion (1990), and Volume 3, Generalia, language and literature, the arts (1991). There are more than 3,000 entries, forming an updated compilation of what are considered to be the basic items in the main volumes, plus some more recent material up to April 1992.