The Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in England and Wales Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rogers, Colin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0719071267 ISBN-13: 9780719071263 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2008 Annotation: The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. It takes into account recent, and even some future, changes to the UK's civil registration system, and incorporates many of the vast sources newly available on the internet. There is also a substantial bibliography for those who discover that their ancestors migrated from other countries. New appendices provide research into underregistration of birth and death, and hitherto unpublished details from the 1915 and 1939 National Registers. "The Family Tree Detective" remains an indispensible source of information on how to locate births, marriages and deaths, and alternative strategies if those searches fail. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Reference | Genealogy & Heraldry |
Dewey: 929 |
Series: Family Tree Detective Mup |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.95 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. It takes into account recent, and even some future, changes to the civil registration system, and incorporates many of the vast sources newly available on the internet. There is also a substantial bibliography for those who discover that their ancestors migrated from other countries. New appendices provide research into underregistration of birth and death, and hitherto unpublished details from the 1915 and 1939 National Registers. |