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The Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in England and Wales (3rd Revised edition) ISBN: 0719052130 ISBN13: 9780719052132 The Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in England and Wales (3rd Revised edition) By: Colin Rogers Publisher: Manchester University Press Format: Paperback Our Price: 10.43 Discount: 13% RRP: 11.99

A practical guide for the amateur genealogist, which has been revised and updated for this edition. New material to this volume includes a section on medieval genealogy, targeting family historians who have reached back as far as the 16th century and wish to go back further. Heraldry is introduced and there is detail on the genealogical content of military records and the records of Poor Law Unions and their workhouses. Details are also included of changes to the location and cost of civil registration sources.


Contents:

Looking fpr parents: birth certificates, 1837 to the present day
- the census, 1801 to the present day
- church baptism, 1538 to the present day
- geneaology in the middle ages - an introduction

Looking for marriages: marriage certificates, 1837 to the present day
- marriage in church, 1538 to the present day

Looking for deaths: death certificates, 1837 to the present day
- church burial, 1538 to the present day
- finding a death before 1538.


Brief Description:

A third revised edition which includes a section on mediaeval genealogy which targets the increasing number of historians and amateurs who have reached back as far as the sixteenth century and wish to go further. It details the latest changes to the location and cost of civil registration sources.

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