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Tracing Your Family History
Anthony Adolph
‘Who begot whom is a most amusing kind of hunting’ Horace Walpole
For our friend’s daughter Kim Van Trier, who completed her journey from conception to birth in marginally less time and with considerably less fuss than the writing of this book, and for Scott Crowley, whose quiet support and encouragement throughout have been unfaltering.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER TWO Writing It All Down
CHAPTER THREE Ancestral Pictures
CHAPTER FIVE General Registration
CHAPTER SEVEN The Main Websites
CHAPTER EIGHT Directories & Almanacs
CHAPTER NINE Lives Less Ordinary
CHAPTER ELEVEN Manorial Records
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gravestones & Memorials
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Newspapers & Magazines
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Slave Ancestry
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Maps & Local Histories
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Records of Elections
CHAPTER NINETEEN The Parish Chest
CHAPTER TWENTY Hospitals & Workhouses
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE What People Did
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Fighting Forbears
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Tax & Other Financial Matters
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Swearing Oaths
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Legal Accounts
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Education! Education! Education!
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Immigration & Emigration
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Religious Denominations In Britain
PART FOUR Broadening The Picture
CHAPTER THIRTY What’s In A Name?
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Royalty, Nobility & Landed Gentry
Long before there were computer programmers and engineers, blacksmiths or even farmers, our ancestors told each other stories of who they were and where they came from. Over time, as other subjects became more important (or at least seemed to be), our ancestral tales began to take a backburner, the older ones blurring into creation