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 Researching Scottish Family History
C Paton
Researching Scottish Family History is a detailed introductory guide to those wishing to explore their Caledonian roots. The book is a guide to all areas of Scottish research, with information both on traditional and internet based resources.
Filled with handy tips throughout, the book also provides many useful contextual asides on various aspects of Scottish history relevant to your ancestral pursuit - why are there no bishops' transcripts for Scotland, for example, and how do you prove whether your ancestor really was a Jacobite soldier? Completing the book are handy appendices listing the contact details of all Scottish based county archives, family history societies and comainn eachdraidh, making this an absolute essential for your personal genealogical library. (2010)
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£7.95
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 An Introduction to Occupations
J. Culling
A listing of occupations taken from various sources such as census returns, parish records, wills and trade directories. (1999)
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£3.95
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 Tracing Your Textile Ancestors
V Teasdale
The book discusses the technical, economic and social aspects of work in the textile industry from it's growth in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to its decline in the twentieth. It gives a keen insight into the working life in the factories and into the close-knit communities that grew up around them and introduces the reader to the variety of national and local records that are available for genealogical research. (2009)
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£12.99
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 Book of Trades or Library of Useful Arts 1811 Part 3
B. Hurley
Reproduction of job descriptions of the 18th - 19th century. (1992)
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£3.50
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 Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations
C. Waters
This useful reference book explains the meaning of nearly 4,000 occupational terms. Helping you to discover exactley what your ancestor did in their working lives. (2005)
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£12.99
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 Growth of British Education and its Records
C.R. Chapman
A guide to how to use the records of education to help trace your family history from the 14th century onwards. (1992)
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£5.00
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 On the Gypsy Trail
A. McGowan
A basic guide covering all the major sources on how to trace your gypsy ancestors. (1999)
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£2.50
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 My Ancestor was a Railway Worker
F Hardy
A guide to understanding records about railway people. (2009)
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£7.50
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 Researching Brewery and Publican Ancestors
S. Fowler
The first section is a brief survey about the changing nature of brewing, the public and the people who worked there. The second part offers advice about the records and where you can find them. There is also a glossary of terms, a short bibliography and list of web sites. (2009)
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£5.95
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 Tracing Your Railway Ancestors
D Drummond
A guide to all aspects of railway history for the family and local historian. The book describes the rapid growth, hey day and long decline of the railways from the earliest days in the late-eighteenth century to privatization in the 1990s. It illustrates the types of work that railwaymen did and the conditions they worked in. It introduces the reader to the variety of records that are available for genealogical research from staff records and registers, publications, census returns through to biographies and autobiographies.
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£14.99
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 Using Criminal Records - PRO Pocket Guide
This guide will tell you about the documents relating to them in England and Wales from 1540, the records of investigation, trial and punishment in the PRO and local record offices. (2002)
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£3.99
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 Was Your Grandfather a Railwayman ?
T. Richards
A directory of railway archive sources for family historians. (2002)
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£6.95
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