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25 Years of Family Tree 1984 - 2009
Celebrating 25 years of the UK's best selling family history magazine.
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Birth and Baptism Records for Family Historians
By Stuart A Raymond

Records of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burals 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 how they should be used.

Published by The Family History Partnership.
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Essential Maps for Family Historians
For local historians too, they are of crucial interest; in particular those undertaking research for villages and other histories. Maps help us make sense of how and where our ancestors lived, identifying an individual's location and circumstances within his or her community. The maps in the book are reproduced in colour and there are integrated case studies within each chapter.
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How to get the best from the 1911 Census
By John Hanson FSG. The 1911 census is radically different from previously released census returns. This book aims to help you to get the best from it, with detailed explanations of each part of the site and plenty of useful hints and tips.
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Marriage Records for Family Historians
Stuart A Raymond

Records of births/baptisms, marriages, and deaths/burals 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 how they should be used.

Published by The Family History Partnership

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Military Photographs & How to Date Them
The military photographs in family albums stand out as different and distinctive and the sight of an ancestor in uniform stirs thoughts of what he or she did and where they served. Neil Storey offers advice on identifying military uniforms, badges, insignia, ranks, medals and the equipment worn by our military ancestors. These items can provide a wealth of information about the person or people in the photograph and can lead to many new avenues of research. The book covers our Nation's military history from the 1870's to the 1940's.
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My Ancestor was A Railway Worker
Society of Genealogists publication.
By Frank Hardy FSG. A complete guide to using railway records, covering all aspects of this hugely significant industry. The book includes a potted history of our railways, case studies and a comprehensive resources section.
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My Ancestor was In Service
By Pamela Horn.
By the end of the Victorian era nearly a third of all women and also many men in England and Wales had been a domestic worker at some time in their lives. This book seeks to give some guidance in researching ancestors who were in service or who themselves employed domestic staff.
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New Cousins
By Karen Bali
This book is a guide to descendant searching—that is looking for living relatives. It can be fascinating, rewarding, and potentialy life-changing. Research can lead you not only to dead ancestors, but to living, breathing relatives who share your genetic heritage—members of your extended family.

Instead of searching for ancestors, descendant searching involves using many of the same research methods to bring a search forward in time rather than working backwards chronologically. Working from a chosen ancestor or family, a researcher can trace living descendants from the same family and link up to share information.

This booklet shows you how to get started. Offers tips and guidance using the major sources for family history.
Includes many worked examples of how to go about descendant searching and is written by an experienced researcher
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Parish Registers
By Stuart A Raymond
Parish registers are the earliest comprehensive records of baptisms, marriages and burials in England and Wales, dating from 1538. They are still kept, despite the fact that civil registers of births, marriages and deaths have been maintained since 1837 . Parish registers are valuable sources for family and local historians, and may provide the only evidence we have for the existence of our ancestors.

The history and background of parish registers must be understood if they are to be used effectively. Researchers need to know where they can be found, what indexes are available, and, most importantly, what pitfalls to look out for. The aim of this book is to outline their history, to assess the value of the evidence they provide, and to explain how to use them.

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Pitfalls and Possibilities in Family History Research
By Pauline M Litton

You need this book if you agree with any of the statements below:

She was born in 1839 so she must be registered at the GRO.
Of course they were married… .
He was 80 when he died so he was born in ...
I knew her as Auntie Gladys; she must be my mother’s or father’s sister.
She was called" little Cis" so she must have been Cicely or Cecilia.
She’s described as his mother-in-law in the 1851 census; she must be his wife’s mother.
They both said they were 21 on their marriage certificate so they were both born in...
My name is Blomiley; Blummelie, Brimiley & Bromley are nothing to do with my family.
The minister wrote my ancestor’s name as Amery in the marriage register and he must be correct. What if my ancestor did sign as Emery?
My great grandfather left his son only one shilling in his Will; they must have fallen out.
Based on a series of articles with the same title published in Family Tree Magazine, updated and expanded to take account of the advantages and disadvantages of using modern technology. It is not a book on ‘how to do your family tree’, rather it suggests unexplored avenues and additional sources which you may not have considered. Possible errors and omissions in original records, transcriptions and indexes (including those online) are described and illustrated.

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Researching Scottish Family History
Researching Scottish Family History is a detailed introductory guide to those wishing to explore their Caledonian roots. Published by the Family History Partnership, which aims to provide genealogical books at an affordable price, the book is a packed 120 page guide to all areas of Scottish research, with information both on traditional and internet based resources.

The book starts with a basic chapter in getting started, detailing how to get the best out of talking to your relatives, ways and means to record your research and more. The second chapter continues with a guide to the institutional lay of the land, the records repositories that will help with your efforts, including the most detailed guide to the new ScotlandsPeople Centre yet committed to print, as well as various other institutions in both Scotland and England that may help with your research.

The next five chapters provide detailed coverage of the basic statutory, parish, census and probate documents used within Scottish research, as well as an in depth look at the role of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Scottish research. The remainder of the book deals with the unique records connected to Scottish land holdings, occupational research records (including for Scots in the armed forces), the relevance and methods of DNA research, heraldry and tartans, and other useful sources.

Filled with handy tips throughout, the book also provides many useful contextual asides on various aspects of Scottish history relevant to your ancestral pursuit – why are there no bishops’ transcripts for Scotland, for example, and how do you prove whether your ancestor really was a Jacobite soldier? Completing the book are handy appendices listing the contact details of all Scottish based county archives, family history societies and comainn eachdraidh, making this an absolute essential for your personal genealogical library

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The Census 1801-1911
A Guide for the internet Era.
The Census is a vital sources of information for all social and economic historians interested in the Victorian period. The editor of the Illustrated London news was absolutely right when he wrote in 1851 that 'the numbering of the people at regular intervals is a duty which the people owe to themselves, and to the generations that are to follow them'. The census can be used to study a particular family, or to undertake a total history of a particular street or parish. It is also possible to use it for regional or national studies of subjects such as the disappearance of servants, or the process of urbanisation.

The aim of this book is to provide basic information about the census for both family and local historians: how and when it was compiled, what information it provides, where it can be consulted, and how to use it.

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