For persons living outside the UK/EU only. Powys Family History welcomes everyone who has an interest in the lives of their ancestors who lived in the old counties of Breconshire, Radnorshire or Montgomeryshire and those who want to find out more about these counties in past times. Membership runs from the 1st of January and costs £15 each year, £20 for Overseas, or £15 Overseas with Cronicl download,…
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By Arthur Willis and Karin Proudfoot . Many books have been written for the would-be genealogist, but none has equalled the popularity of this little book on English research. First published in 1955, it is now in its 6th completely re-written edition. Contents include How to Begin; Records of searches; Births, marriages and deaths; Census return; Parish registers; Other parish records; Wills and administrations;…
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A detailed account of the place of the midwife in seventeenth and eighteenth century society. Includes a Yorkshire midwives nominations index, listing many names.
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Edited by Janet Keet-Black and the late Mary Horner A5 paperback book, 60 pages, black-and-white family photographs The book contains people's memories and photos of when they or their older family members used to go hop-picking plus articles about the history of the craft. All these were originally contributed by RTFHS members for a special hopping exhibition held in 2001 at the RTFHS Society Day…
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Addresses outside the UK and Europe joining the Society at any time of year. Membership runs from 1 Oct 2026 to 30 Sep 2027. Members receive four issues of the journal (Dec 2026 to Sep 2027.)
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Addresses in Europe (outside the UK) joining the Society at any time of year. Membership runs from 1 Oct 2026 to 30 Sep 2027. Members receive four issues of the journal (Dec 2026 to Sep 2027.)
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**Addresses in the UK joining the Society at any time of year.**Membership runs from 1 Oct 2026 to 30 Sep 2027. Members receive four issues of the journal (Dec 2026 to Sep 2027).
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By Sharon Sillers Floate. A comprehensive guide to the sources available – and the techniques to use – to help you research your Gypsy family tree. This updated edition includes additional sections on the 1911 census and emigration, plus details of the many useful websites and publications that have appeared since the last edition in 2005. A5, 112 pages. Published by the Society of Genealogists.
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By Janet Keet-Black. This important book covers the history of travelling groups in Britain, their abodes, and ways of earning a living. It also looks at their contribution to war work, and has a very welcome chapter on their role in 21st Century society. Many of the colour photographs have not been published before. Shire Publications, A5, 56 pages.
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Reprinted again due to popular demand!!!! From the 1720s to the early 20th Century from the Southern Counties of England. The Does are one of the lesser-known but important Romany families of the Southern Counties of England. Individuals of the name occasionally came to the attention of the Gypsiologists and so appeared from time to time in the pages of the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society in the…
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Contains the names of more than 6200 individuals, taken from the Society's collection of pedigrees and family trees, who have been combined into one 'superfamily' using birth and marriage records. Details are given of names, dates, locations and relationships, produced using the Generations program. It also provides a Family Tree Maker version and a file in GEDCOM format for transfer into other programs.…
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A series of articles taken from the Society's journal "The Greenwood Tree" about ?????? 87 Dorset parishes and 49 Somerset parishes are included.
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Sir Frances Ashley was the Recorder of Dorchester, and the book is a calendar of the examinations, information, affidavits and cases heard before him. Includes an index of names. Published by the Dorset Record Society. 133 pages. Soft covers.
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Provides detailed information on building practices and costs at a crucially important period, which saw on of the greatest pre-nineteenth century building booms in England. Published by the Dorset Record Society. 37 pages. Soft covers.
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The letters etc were all written in the 1820s. Published by the Dorset Record Society. 99 pages. Soft covers
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Consists of 642 numbered folios plus some additional sheets. Because of the limited survival of such records, this book is the best source for the history of local government in Dorset. Published by the Dorset Record Society. 503 pages. Hardback.
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This CD has been produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society. It contains a complete set of all the back editions of The Greenwood Tree as text-searchable PDF files up to and including the 40th anniversary edition, volume 40.3.
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The memory stick version of this product has been produced to mark the 40th anniversary of the Somerset & Dorset Family History Society. It contains a complete set of all the back editions of The Greenwood Tree as text-searchable PDF files up to and including the 40th anniversary edition, volume 40.3.
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Records from petty sessions, Downton Society members and payments for illness, militia men etc. A5 softback 32 pages.
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This is a reprint of the second volume in the Ulster Historical Foundation's Historical Series, which was first published in 1969. These five essays were delivered as lectures at a conference on the Scotch-Irish held in Belfast in 1965. This edition contains a new introduction by Steve Ickringill of the University of Ulster re-viewing recent research. The first essay is an examination of President…
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During most of the 18th century, a tax was levied on apprenticeship bindings, and central records kept of most indentures. In almost every case not only are the names of apprentices and masters (and the latter's occupation and parish) given, but also the apprentice's father's name and parish. This book provides a full list in index order of these documents for this period. Reprinted from Surrey Record…
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Will register ‘Spage’ 1480-90 (from Surrey Record Society printed edition).
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Will register ‘Herringman’ 1595-1608 (from Surrey Record Society printed edition).
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This book by M. Perceval-Maxwell was first published in 1973, yet it continues to be one of the most significant works of scholarship on the Plantation of Ulster. This book describes in detail the initial establishment of settlement in Ireland's northern province over a comparitively short space of time, that is from 1603 to 1625. Dr Perceval-Maxwell examines the society that produced the Scottish…
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he north of Ireland has always produced a large number of doctors, not only for Ireland generally, but for the armed forces and for the wider world. This extensive two volume work of reference is a directory of all those Ulster doctors who qualified before 1901. There are nearly six thousand names with biographical notes on all, including details of parentage and dates of birth, marriage and death,…
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