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Membership of Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society (1 year) Overseas Membership below Pensionable Age with pdf journal sent by email Free P&P

Page Description: The annual subscription runs from January to December. New members receive a Welcome Pack and four quarterly journals. New members joining on or between 1 June and 31 December can take out an extended subscription, which includes a Welcome Pack and two quarterly journals for the current year and four journals for the following year.//Overseas members may pay three years. The journal…

Supplied by: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society Product Ref: LFH-13954340

Kent Family History Society Membership renewal - UK Single Membership with printed journal Free P&P

Subscriptions are due annually on 1st July and a £5 late payment fee is due on payments made after 18th August. An on-line renewal system is available via our website https://www.kfhs.org.uk/renew

Supplied by: Kent Family History Society Product Ref: KFS-007

Kent Family History Society Membership renewal - Worldwide with E-Journal Free P&P

For existing members only

Supplied by: Kent Family History Society Product Ref: KFS-REN-EJ

Kent Family History Society Membership renewal - UK Family Membership with printed journal Free P&P

Subscriptions are due annually on 1st July and a £5 late payment fee is due on payments made after 18th August. An on-line renewal system is available via our website https://www.kfhs.org.uk/renew

Supplied by: Kent Family History Society Product Ref: KFS-REN-UKFAM

Kent Family History Society Membership renewal - International single and family membership with printed journal Free P&P

Subscriptions are due annually on 1st July and a £5 late payment fee is due on payments made after 18th August. An on-line renewal system is available via our website https://www.kfhs.org.uk/renew

Supplied by: Kent Family History Society Product Ref: KFS-REN-OS

Teach Yourself Palaeography - A Guide for Genealogists and Local Historians by Claire Jarvis

This is the very first 'teach yourself' book on palaeography, covering all the skills that the genealogist needs to read any document that might be found at any date in English archives. Using a series of graded exercises in transcription, Teach Yourself Palaeography works backwards in time in easy stages from the modern handwriting of the nineteenth century to the court hands of the medieval…

Supplied by: S&N Genealogy Supplies Product Ref: SNG-10591

The Wills of our Ancestors: a guide for family & local historians / Stuart A. Raymond

Who wrote wills? What information can be found in them? What information can be found in other probate records? Where can I find them? How should I use them? Probate records are invaluable sources of information for both family and local historians, who need to know the answers to these questions. This book supplies the answers, and provides a comprehensive and up to date guide to the content, location,…

Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-WILL

Faces and Places: Barmet High Street 2023 - Local traders make a community

This booklet picks out 7 local businesses, chosen for their historical standing as a family shop, their quirkiness, their uniqueness or their significance in the High Street. Its 28 pages are full of photos showing the front and back of the business, those that work there and sometimes some customers. These photos may not be considered historical yet but they will be one day!

Supplied by: Barnet Museum and Local History Society Product Ref: BTM-076

Non-Conformity in Hertfordshire (A Guide to Sources for Local and Family Historians)

This 64 page A5 guide, compiled and written by Alan Ruston, is designed to help the researcher to locate references to a particular chapel or congregation in Hertfordshire. It is not a comprehensive history of those congregations nor a narrative account but a source in which to dip. The work only covers Christianity in its historic forms, e.g. Presbyterians, Unitarians, Baptists, Quakers etc. First…

Supplied by: Hertfordshire Family History Society Product Ref: HRT-SP006

Lancashire Local Historian 9 (1994)

And the blowshoppes decay for lakke of wood; How did Thomas Pennant cross the Ribble?; Poverty and the Poor Law in Formby, 1701-1900; A poor diet for poor people? Workhouse food in Lancashire, 1750-1834; In defence of the shopkeeper; Irish Nationalists in Bootle, 1868-1914; St. Mary's School goes to war; Killing the pig; Rainford in the 1940s

Supplied by: Northern Writers Advisory Services Product Ref: NWA-OHL1

Lancashire Local Historian 20 (2008)

Articles in Honour of Mary Higham

Supplied by: Northern Writers Advisory Services Product Ref: NWA-OHL2

Local Coroner Records for Brotherton, Ferry Fryston & Knottingley for the period 1868 - 1890

Inquests 1868-1890 for Brotherton, Ferry Fryston & Knottingley from the Notebooks of Thomas Taylor Yorkshire County Coroner

Supplied by: Pontefract & District Family History Society Product Ref: PON-I002

Census returns 1841-1891 in Microform: a directory to local holdings in Great Britain

By Jeremy Gibson & Elizabeth Hampson. Many libraries and record offices hold copies of the census on microform. This book is a directory of what is available where.

Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-GIB2

Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors: a guide for Family and Local Historians / Stuart A. Raymond

We all have nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century, almost half of the population were nonconformists. Family historians need to be aware of the diversity of nonconformity, and of the many sources which ill enable them to trace the activities of nonconformist forebears. This hand book provides an overview of those sources. It identifies the numerous websites, libraries and archives…

Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-NON

German References Guide in County & Local Record Offices

Research Guide No 15 - 1st edition (April 2011) Listing of documents relating to Germans found in Record Offices in England & Wales.

Supplied by: Anglo-German Family History Society Product Ref: ANG-8

THE MARCH OF WILLIAM OF ORANGE THROUGH SOMERSET With a notice of other local events in the time of King James II A.D. 1688 by Emanuel Green

In 1671 Charles II's brother James, Duke of York, startled the nation by announcing that he was a papist. This caused a great concern among the Protestants and many attempts were made to stop James from becoming King. In February 1685 Charles died and despite the attempts to exclude James, he was crowned King. Later that year the Duke of Monmouth made an unsuccessful attempt to take the throne. Eventually…

Supplied by: WestCountryBooks Product Ref: TBS-13955811

The Hertford Loop - The first 100 years of a local railway.

A 32 page A5 booklet written by Peter Hodge, with illustrations and bibliography. Originally published in 1976 then reprinted by Southgate District Civic Voice in 2021 to coincide with the 150th Anniversary of the opening of the Great Northern Railway branch line from Wood Green (Alexandra Palace) to Enfield. Peter Hodge wrote in May 1976 "It is an account, for the general reader, of the construction…

Supplied by: Southgate District Civic Voice Product Ref: SDC-SP004

Various local newspapers

Birth, Marriage and Death extracts from the following newspapers: ·         Beverley Guardian 1856 to 1896 ·         Driffield 1860 to 1917 ·         Hornsea 1869 to 1901 ·         Withernsea 1873 to 1891 ·         Howden 1873 to 1897 The data on these CDs is supplied in Microsoft Access 97®, Microsoft Excel 97®, Microsoft Works 4® and Adobe Acrobat PDF® formats.

Supplied by: East Yorkshire Family History Society Product Ref: EYK-CDN007-PCG2

SOMERSET QUARTER SESSION RECORDS Charles II (1666-1677) produced and edited by Somerset Record Society

Quarter session records are really helpful for family or local historians and anyone with an interest in history. They detail minor cases that appear before the “court”. You will find instances of petty crime, settlement, bastardy etc., and hundreds of names. This Somerset Record Society publication covers the years 1666 to 1677 is the ideal book for those who want to expand their knowledge of local

Supplied by: WestCountryBooks Product Ref: TBS-13955876

Will Indexes and other Probate Material in the Library of the Society of Genealogists

Probate records are a major source of genealogical information. Wills are likely to be the only documents reflecting the personalities of your ancestors. Millions survive; there are numerous transcripts and indexes to them have been prepared. Many of these printed volumes are in the library of the Society of Genealogists, whose collection is listed in this book. Many of the items listed can, of course,…

Supplied by: Internet Genealogical Bookshop Product Ref: RAY-SOG-14

Bourne Society Index

Covers Local History Records 1-45 (1962-2006) and Bulletins 1-202 (1956-2005). NOTE: Village Histories are NOT included in the Index. Compiled by T.D.K. Pearce. 335 pp, A5. Published 2006.

Supplied by: Bourne Society, The Product Ref: BOU-BSI

BAINES' HISTORY, GAZETTEER & DIRECTORY OF THE WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE 1823 Edward Baines’ HISTORY, GAZETTEER & DIRECTORY OF YORKSHIRE, in two volumes.

This is Volume One, The West Riding of Yorkshire, containing a wealth of information about each and every place in the West Riding, with alphabetical lists of the residents and tradespeople there

Supplied by: Yorkshire Ancestors Product Ref: YAN-GW165

BAINES' HISTORY, GAZETTEER & DIRECTORY OF THE EAST & NORTH RIDINGS OF YORKSHIRE 1823 Edward Baines’ HISTORY, GAZETTEER & DIRECTORY OF YORKSHIRE, in two volumes.

This is Volume Two, The East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, containing a wealth of information about each and every place in both East and North Ridings, with alphabetical lists of the residents and tradespeople there

Supplied by: Yorkshire Ancestors Product Ref: YAN-GW166