Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Marie-Louise Backhurst

Description

This book is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in libraries and archives in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Full information is given on how to access the birth, marriage and death records which are only available in the islands and differ in format from those in England and Wales.

Marie-Louise Backhurst covers the census, church records, nonconformist registers, rating lists, newspapers, wills and laws of inheritance, official records, and the variety of other sources that can illuminate a past life and make family history research so rewarding. Migration has played a large part in the history of the islands and details of the records are fully explained.

This authoritative and easy-to-use guide to these collections, and the author's advice on how to use them and get the most out of them, will be invaluable to anyone who is trying to find out about the life and experience of an ancestor who lived in the Channels Islands or was connected with them.

*Accessible, informative, highly illustrated handbook for anyone researching their ancestry and the history of the Channel Islands
*Guide to civil, church and official records and registers and to all the other sources for research
*Detailed coverage of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark
*Places the history of individuals into the context of the wider history of the Channel Islands
*Includes internet sources and a glossary of French terms

Paperback published by Pen and Sword