| Notes | 1st published 1997|2nd edn.|Contents: An introduction to genealogical research / Personal recollections, photographs, memorabilia / Organization of your research materials / General problems in locating and using records / Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths since 1837 / Census returns / Parish registers / Churchyards and cemeteries / Directories / Combining sources of information / Record offices, libraries, archives, and family history societies / Wills and administrations / Roman Catholic, non-Conformist, and Jewish records / Marriage and divorce / Maps, land registration, introduction to property records / Local and social history / Newspapers, poll books, and electoral registers / Records of the poor, parish records, and town records / Records of the Army, Royal Marines, and Royal Air Force / Records of shipping and seamen / Records of trades and professions, family businesses, employment / Oaths, taxation, and insurance records / Records of the civil and ecclesiastical courts / Records of Justices of the Peace, criminals, and criminal courts / Education / Peerages, the gentry, famous people, and heraldry / Further property records / Tracing migrants and locating living relatives / Research in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man, Channel Isles /Immigration, emigration, and investigations abroad|Includes coverage for wills from about 1383 |
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