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Tracing Your Family History Stella Colwell

Tracing Your Family History By Stella Colwell

Tracing Your Family History by Stella Colwell

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This text provides a guide to tracing family histories. It gives advice on planning research and establishing what information is required, as well as explaining how to interview relatives effectively and draw up a family tree. The new edition gives advice on how to use the Internet to its full potential.

Tracing Your Family History Summary

Tracing Your Family History by Stella Colwell

This text provides a guide to tracing family histories, both in the UK and overseas. It gives advice on planning research and establishing what information is required, as well as explaining how to interview relatives effectively and draw up a family tree.

It contains full guidance on where to find and how to use the different sources available to you, such as birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses and wills.

This new edition also gives advice on how to use the internet to its full potential to help you trace your family history.

About Stella Colwell

Stella Colwell is a freelance genealogical consultant, having worked at the College of Arms, London, for twelve years. She was the first woman Chairman of the Executive Commitee of the Society of Genealogists. She lectures widely and is the author of several other books on family history.

Table of Contents

acknowledgements; 1 - introduction: in pursuit of your family's past; 2 - you and your relatives; 3 - compiling your family tree; 4 - hunting for your ancestors' births, marriages and deaths: England and Wales; 5 - hunting for your ancestors' births, marriages and deaths: the channel Islands, Isle of man, scotland and Ireland; 6 - hunting for your ancestors' births, mariages and deaths: finding people overseas; 7 - searching the census; 8 - locating individuals in time and place within the british Isles; 9 - knowing your sources: where and what they are and how to use them; 10 - exploring english and welsh parish registers; 11 - english and welsh non-conformists; 12 - looking at parish registers in the rest of the british isles, Ireland and the united states of america; 13 - delving among the contents of the parish chest; 14 - necessary steps before marriage; 15 - trawling steps before marriage; 16 - tracking estates elsewhere in the british isles, ireland and united states of america; 17 - fred karno's army; 18 - called to account: writing up your family's history; 19 - using the internet; taking it further

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GOR002848612
9780340859735
0340859733
Tracing Your Family History by Stella Colwell
Stella Colwell
Teach Yourself Educational
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Murray Press
20030829
308
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