Collins Tracing Your Family History

Collins Tracing Your Family History
Anthony Adolph

The new, fully-updated edition of Collins Tracing Your Family History is the definitive handbook for anyone interested in tracing their family’s past.Firmly practical in its approach, yet entertaining in its style, this reference guide is the indispensable companion for all who are seeking a reliable, one-source volume to use while tracking down their family origins.New and up-to-date content helps you make the most of your resources - such as how best to utilise the internet, and informs you about the most recent records released which could be vital to your search for your ancestry.The book gives comprehensive guidance on the full variety of governmental, religious and more obscure records available to the family history sleuth. The guide also contains highly useful advice on how to expand and reinvigorate a search when the trial runs cold – as it inevitably will.Author Anthony Adolph balances detailed instruction and guidance with humorous anecdotes and illuminating history lessons, ensuring an informative and entertaining read.

Collins

Tracing Your Family History

Anthony Adolph

How We Are Related (#ulink_17a60283-9686-538a-9002-a04ea95f2646)

‘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

Cover Page (#u8f2e5a0c-96ce-5e70-9032-31e98fca1708)

Title Page (#u589328a7-4bc8-5195-84ef-e80dec3abb0e)

How We Are Related (#u066ff809-d0d8-5252-a371-a230c438ef30)

Dedication (#u30b768ac-be1c-56b1-8b30-378a87552c8a)

Introduction (#uc6d926be-3c9d-5380-b503-188285a43a89)

PART ONE Getting Started (#u35ba2690-02fd-5c7f-9ef6-a554ad0deb76)

CHAPTER ONE Ask The Family (#u1d734b4a-4091-54de-b429-d76fcdc33f54)

CHAPTER TWO Writing It All Down (#uf96255be-8428-5eab-968c-004dd757a75c)

CHAPTER THREE Ancestral Pictures (#ud93f079c-5a49-51b6-b469-fd1809a4c098)

CHAPTER FOUR Before You Begin (#ud79d8a49-198c-532c-885c-11e294011ebc)

PART TWO The Main Records (#u64544db2-b25d-5354-9cab-826d8045c39d)

CHAPTER FIVE General Registration (#ub7ef554c-764b-59f5-8b31-227491955393)

CHAPTER SIX Censuses (#u05923cca-4740-5ca0-a5d9-97ee942147fc)

CHAPTER SEVEN The Main Websites (#u49e2bdf2-02f1-5f68-84f4-c52c36dd4cb3)

CHAPTER EIGHT Directories & Almanacs (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINE Lives Less Ordinary (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TEN Parish Records (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER ELEVEN Manorial Records (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWELVE Wills (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gravestones & Memorials (#litres_trial_promo)

PART THREE Taking It Further (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Newspapers & Magazines (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Land Records (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Slave Ancestry (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Maps & Local Histories (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Records of Elections (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER NINETEEN The Parish Chest (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY Hospitals & Workhouses (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE What People Did (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Fighting Forbears (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Tax & Other Financial Matters (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Swearing Oaths (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Legal Accounts (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Education! Education! Education! (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Immigration & Emigration (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Religious Denominations In Britain (#litres_trial_promo)

PART FOUR Broadening The Picture (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Genetics (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTY What’s In A Name? (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Royalty, Nobility & Landed Gentry (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Heraldy (#litres_trial_promo)