McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians

Guides covering the 'how to' of most aspects of research

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Agricultural Labourer (The)

There are far more records available than you can imagine, history background (all sources)....

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Ancestral Research For Free

what resources are available in local history archives, online and others to help your research ...

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Annals of the Poor

Old Poor Law to 1834; overseers' papers, settlement certificates, removals, examinations and the law concerning right to relief: pauper apprenticeship, bastardy....

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Civil Registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths

Getting certificates of birth, marriage and death; using indexes; problems arising....

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Sources for finding more about craftsmen; apprenticeships, taxed and pauper; Livery company records and published lists; Union and company records; local information in parish and county sources. Newspapers etc....

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Education For The People

the history of education from Medieval times to now, including charity schools, ragged schools, military schools etc...

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Family History from Newspapers

What were they like at different times, who and what would you find in them? Location and research...

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Illegitmacy

How it was handled by the parish; overseers actions, bastardy bonds, court orders, filiation and maintenace. Effect on settlement; coverups. attitudes at different times; finding birth fathers....

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Interviewing Elderly Relatives

Extracting information effectively from any relative, interview techniques and recording.Family traditions evaluated....

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Keeping The Peace

the beginnings of having a police system from parish constables, Bow Street Runners and more modern policing with anecdotes of famous criminals and the police's part in their capture...

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Making Ends Meet

the lives of rich and poor (mostly poor) through the ages and how they lived (or survived at all) in pre-benefits times in detail from medieval help to modern times...

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Making The Most Of The I.G.I. & Family Search

How to use the IGI on micro-fiche and Family Search on line and what is missing...

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Manorial Records

Underused source of land transfer from father to son/relative, sales, mortgages, relations with the steward; also courts leet, petty crimes, neighbours from hell. Location, detailed survey of contents with examples and interpretation of documents found. Glossary of Latin and obsolete terms....

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Modern Wills from 1858

Wills proved in civil courts. Location, indexes, photocopies. Married Women's Property Act. Terms and interpretation of bequests. Abbreviations for making abstract....

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Nonconformist Ancestors

Chapel Registers, location, different format; alternative sources, legal records, parish accounts, where to find marriages; books of 'sufferings' when dissent was illegal; other possible sources....

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Old Occupations and Descriptions

Occupations found in registers, wills, censuses, general records, related to their period, with a note if they are obsolete, obsolecent or changed in meaning at different times....

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Parish Registers

What is in them at different periods and what is not; locating, searching and interpreting....

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Professionals and Gentlemen

Records of gentry, clergy, lawyers, doctors, teachers, military and naval officers, EIC officials....

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Quarter Sessions Your Ancestor and the Law

a history of how the Quarter sessions worked and what information is available ...

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Reading Old Handwriting

Manual to carry round. Three full alphabets 1800,1700,1600, with troubleshooting of difficult letters. Genuine writing, as used, not neat court hand or copperplate....

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Simple Latin for Family Historians

Names, numbers, relationships, occupations, descriptions, standard terms for events in registers, wills, basic deeds. How to read and interpret a Latin will Probate....

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Surnames and their Origins

Many hundreds of surnames, some grouped, with patromymic, locative, occupational or nickname origins. Index of names and groups. Simple place names excluded for space....

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The Bawdy Courts - Our Rude Forefathers & The Church

How 'The Bawdy Courts' dealt with various aspects of human life relating to Tithes, Wills, Divorce, Misconduct and the Witnesses in the cases...

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The Poor Are Always with Us

Poor Relief after 1834 to c 1930. Workhouses, migration and emigration, mobility of labour, job opportunties for the minimally qualified. Illustrated; bibliography....

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The Victorian Censuses

Locating and using the C19 censuses for 1841-1901; interpretation and search techniques...

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