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FFHS, Family History Partnership, and SoG Publications
The Federation of Family History Societies has published many titles of great importance to genealogists. Only a selection is listed here. The Gibson guides, which provide detailed guides to particular sources, were formerly published by the FFHS, but are now being published by the Family History Partnership. The Society of Genealogists is the major English genealogical society, and has an extensive publishing programme. Some of its titles are listed here.
Birth and Baptism Records for Family Historians / Stuart A. Raymond
Registers of births and baptisms are vital sources for family historians. They have been kept by the Church of England, various nonconformist churches, the General Register Office, and various other bodies. There are also a variety of other records in which births and baptisms can be traced. This book gives an overview of all the sources worth searching, telling you where to look and how to unders...
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British Civil Registration / Tom Wood
The civil registers are amongst the first sources that the family historian will need to check. They appear to be easy to use - but appearacnes may be deceptinve, and it pays to be aware of how they were compiled. Wood provides a detailed account of the registers and indexes, and his text should be read by alllfamily historians. 2nd edition, 2000....
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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....
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Death and Burial Records for Family Historians / Stuart A. Raymond. Family History Partnership, 2011.
Death and burial records are vital sources for family historians. This book describes the various different records available, where to find them, and how to use them....
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First name variants / Alan Bardsley
By Alan Bardsley. First names are infinitely variable. Elizabeth might be Bessy or Beth, or more than 100 other variants. Bardsley here brings them all togethe, so that you may no longer suffer from confusion....
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History's Midwives / Joan E. Grundy
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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Index of London Hospitals and their Record / Cliff Webb
Hospital records are an extremely useful source of information for family historians. Particularly useful are their birth, death, admission, and discharge registers. There are also creed registers, staff records, and a wide range of other sources. This volume tells you what is available for London, and where it can be found....
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Local Newspapers 1750-1920, England and Wales, Channel Islands, Isle of Man: a select location list / Jeremy Gibson, Brett Langston, & Brenda W. Smith. 3rd ed. Family History Partnership, 2011.
Newspapers contain a huge amount of information for genealogists. This volume lists the thousands of titles that are available in English and Welsh national and local libraries, and tells you where to find them....
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Marriage Records for Family Historians / Stuart A. Raymond
It is impossible to construct pedigrees without using marriage registers and other records. Marriages have been registered by a wide range of different bodies. This book describes these and other sources, and tells you where to look....
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New Cousins: How to Trace Living Descendans of your Ancestors / Karen Bali
This book is a guide to descendant tracing, that is, looking for living relatives. It can be fascinating, rewarding, and potentially life-changing. Reseach can lead you not to dead ancestors, but living, breathing relatives who share your genetic heritage, members of your extended family. To find out how to trace them, you need this book....
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Oxfordshire Contributors to the Free & Voluntary Present to King Charles II, 1661, transcribed by Gwyn de Jong / Jeremy Gibson (ed). Oxfordshire Famiiy History Society in association with the Family History Partnership, 2012.
Kings loved to demand 'free and voluntary presents' (with the emphasis on the word 'demand')! Their bureaucrats loved to list them. When Charles II returned from exile in 1660, he desperately needed money. This is a listing of some 6000 Oxfordshire men and women who made their contribution. Did anyone from your parish make a contribution? And was one of your ancestors amongst them? This is a valua...
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Poor Law Union Records Volume 3 - South-West England, The Marches and Wales
By Jeremy Gibson. The records of poor law unions of the 19th and early 20th centuries constitute a major, but under-used, source of genealogical data - partly because, prior to the publication of these books, it was difficult to know what was available. They set that right, and provide a detailed listing, county by county, of the extensive resources which may include information on your ancestors....
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Probate Jurisdictions : Where to Look for Wills / Jeremy Gibson & Stuart Raymond
Before 1858, wills were proved in a wide variety of different probate courts, mainly ecclesiastical. The archives of these courts are now held by a wide variety of different records. Offices. Many have been digitised, microfilmed, or transcribed. This book identifies all the courts that proved wills or granted probate administration, together with details of digitised and microfilmed collections,...
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Quarter Session Records / Richard Ratcliffe
Quarter Sessions were responsible for the administration of local government before the introduction of county councils. They dealt with an extraordinarly wide range of topics, and their records have a huge amount of information which is likely to be of interest to family historians. Coroners and criminals, printers and freemasons, vagrants and aliens, are just a few of the people who can be found...
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Remember Then: Women's memories of 1946-1969, and How to Write Your Own / Janet Few
This book is what happens when you let eighty women spend a year and a half recording their memories of life in Britain during the pivotal period 1946-1969....
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Researching Adoption: an Essential Guide to Tracing Birth Relatives and Ancestors / Karen Bali
This is a guide for anyone who wants to research an adoption in the family. If you were adopted, adoption relates to someone in your family, or an ancestor was adopted, this guide can help. It examines methods, resourcs for researching family mysteries deep in the past, plus ideas, advice and guidance for linking up with birth relatives. A must for anyone who wants to discover where they came from...
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Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry, ed. John & Sheila Rowlands
Researching your Welsh ancestry? This book suggests a variety of different sources that may yeild valuable information. It aims to broaden your understanding of the possibilities of research, and will help you to take your research back beyond 1800....
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The Family Historians Enquire Within / Janet Few. 6th ed. Family History Partnership, 2014.
This is a long awaited new edition of a standard reference work for family historians. It gives clear and concise information on all aspects of family history, and aims to point your research in the right direction. There are over 1,000 entries, alphabetically arranged, explaining where to look, what you might expect to find, and how to go about your research....
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The Wesleyan Methodist Historic Roll / Richard Ratcliffe
This volume in the Basic facts ... series dexribes an important source of information on Wesleyan Methodists. In 1899, the '20th century fund' was launched in order to celebrate the centenary of John Wesley's death. The names of subscribers are listed in this roll, by circuit, and, mostly, by chapel. It will therefore enable you to identify ancestors associated with particular chapels between 1899...
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Using Education Records / Colin R.Chapman
Most of our ancestors in recent centuries attended school; some went on to university. These institutions created records which may still survive. Those records are likely to contain much useful information on our aneestors. Colin Chapman here tells us what records are likely to be available, where to find them, and how to use them....
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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 co...
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