Books

We stock a wide range of books to help you with your research. Our computer related genealogy books cover everything from software manuals to tracing your family history on the Internet. Need help or advice in a particular area, or not sure where to get started? Our genealogy books are the perfect accompaniment to your research - you're sure to find something to help you. Published yearly, the Discover Your Ancestors bookazine contains in-depth articles, research advice, social history, 'how to' features, case studies, places in focus, and much more! Also available as a monthly online magazine that you can download to your computer.

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical - Issue 99 (July 2021)

Keep up to date with the genealogy world and learn more about your hobby with the critically acclaimed Discover Your Ancestors online periodical. Whether you are just starting out or have reached a brick wall in your research, this will help and inspire you on your family history journey. Receive guidance from experts, tips on the best sources for records, explore connections around the world and ...

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium 2014

Since its launch in 2013, Discover Your Ancestors Periodical has become an essential read for anyone interested in family and social history, packed with research advice and interesting features on our ancestors’ lives. This monthly magazine has only been available online – until now! We are delighted to offer this complete collection of all 2014 issues of Discover Your Ancestors Period...

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium 2015

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium 2016

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium 2017

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium 2018

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium 2019

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium 2020

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium 2021

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Discover Your Ancestors Periodical Compendium May-December 2013

For the first time you can read the Discover Your Ancestors Periodical in print. With over 100 pages, this compendium is packed full of features, stories, case studies, social history articles, and research advice from the May-December 2013 issues....

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Discover Your Ancestors' Occupations by Laura Berry

This informative book shows how occupations can help give a more detailed picture of your ancestor's life and how trades affected their well being. As well as taking a look at digital records, it also covers some of the more unusual documents available in archives for ancestors who worked in agriculture, trade and industry, the professional classes and the entertainment sector. Going further, you ...

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Family History for Beginners by Karen Foy

An introduction to the tools and processes of researching your past. This book will also help take your research to the level beyond simple facts of birth, marriage and death, with chapters on occupation, migration and military service. By Karen Foy. Paperback with 223 pages...

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Family History: Digging Deeper

This book will help take your research to the next level. It covers a range of topics and provides clear advice for the intermediate genealogist. By Simon Fowler, the former editor of 'Ancestors' (the family history magazine of The National Archives) Softback with over 180 pages...

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Family Matters: A History of Genealogy by Michael Sharpe

Family history is one of Britain's most popular pastimes. Around six million people in Britain are researching their family trees, and genealogy is one of the top categories for online searches. The opening up of public records, the growth of family history societies and the introduction of computers and the internet have made the subject accessible to everyone. As a popular history of the ...

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Family Record Pad

50 A4 pages for recording and organising information about your family history. Includes space for a person's details, notes, children, and census information. Ideal for our Springback Binders....

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Gathering the Clans - Tracing Scottish Ancestry on the Internet

by Alan Stewart Scottish ancestry is easy to trace on the Internet, because Scotland is leading the world in making its family history records available on-line. So now, wherever you live, it is easy to grow a Scottish family tree! All the main records are already on-line: births, marriages and deaths (from 1855), old parish registers (some back as far as 1553), wills and inventorie...

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House Histories for Beginners by Colin Style & O-lan Style

Popular television programmes highlight the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and there is always plenty of interest in the subject, with archives becoming ever more accessible with access to the internet. As the subject covers a broad field, the authors have set out to include advice on those aspects that usually apply to a project and others that wi...

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Huguenot Ancestry by Noel Currer-Briggs and Royston Gambier

This book will help the many genealogists throughout the English-speaking world whose forebears may have been Huguenots. The religious refugees who fled from France and the Low Counties to Britain and America in the 17th century were so numerous that their descendants must now run to some hundreds of thousands. For those with French or foreign sounding names the possibility of Huguenot ancestry is...

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Introducing Family History - 2nd Edition by Stuart A. Raymond

Every family has a history. Most of us know something about our parents and grandparents. But there is usually much more information that could be discovered. That information can be fascinating and often explains why things were the way they were in our childhood. Family history has become much easier in the last few years. Many of the most important sources are now available at the click ...

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It Runs in the Family - Understanding More About Your Ancestors by Ruth A. Symes

In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? ...

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Marriage Records for Family Historians

Records of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burials are vital sources for family historians. It is impossible to trace pedigrees without consulting them. Civil and parish registers are particularly important, but are not the only places where you can find relevant information. In this series, the author describes the wide range of resources available, indicating where they can be found and h...

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New Cousins by Karen Bali

This booklet is a guide to descendant searching - that is looking for living relatives who are also descendants of our ancestors. It can be fascinating, rewarding, and potentially life-changing. Research can lead you not to long-dead ancestors but living, breathing relatives who share your genetic heritage - members of your extended family. This book shows you how to get started, offers tip...

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Palaeography for Family and Local Historians by Hilary Marshall

Family and Local Historians frequently encounter the challenge posed by the writing, and sometimes the translation, of the records which might most enable them to make further progress with their research. Many pamphlets, booklets and even books have been produced to help with old handwriting and abbreviations, but this book written by an author who has for years run courses on the subject, is the...

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Pauper Ancestors by David T. Hawkings

From the sixteenth century onwards many laws were enacted to provide support for the poor and needy, and some parishes established poor houses in which to look after their homeless. In 1834, with the creation of the Poor Law Commission, the whole of England and Wales was formed into Unions of parishes, and each Union built its own workhouse. The workhouses gained a reputation for cruelty in the ey...

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Poor Law Records for Family Historians

This book describes many of the Poor Law records that may survive and where to find them, as well as those of other organisations who helped to relieve families in desperate need. Poor Law Records are the most important records of a Parish after Parish Registers. Through them we can discover ancestors who were "paupers", who were helped through the Poor Law, as well as ancestors who were Po...

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