Collins Tracing Your Family History. Anthony Adolph

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Название Collins Tracing Your Family History
Автор произведения Anthony Adolph
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      Collins

      Tracing Your Family History

      Anthony Adolph

       How We Are Related

      ‘Who begot whom is a most amusing kind of hunting’ Horace Walpole

      For our friend’s daughter Kim Van Trier, who completed her journey from conception to birth in marginally less time and with considerably less fuss than the writing of this book, and for Scott Crowley, whose quiet support and encouragement throughout have been unfaltering.

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       CHAPTER EIGHT Directories & Almanacs

       CHAPTER NINE Lives Less Ordinary

       CHAPTER TEN Parish Records

       CHAPTER ELEVEN Manorial Records

       CHAPTER TWELVE Wills

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gravestones & Memorials

       PART THREE Taking It Further

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN Newspapers & Magazines

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN Land Records

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN Slave Ancestry

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Maps & Local Histories

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Records of Elections

       CHAPTER NINETEEN The Parish Chest

       CHAPTER TWENTY Hospitals & Workhouses

       CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE What People Did

       CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Fighting Forbears

       CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Tax & Other Financial Matters

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Swearing Oaths

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Legal Accounts

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Education! Education! Education!

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Immigration & Emigration

       CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Religious Denominations In Britain

       PART FOUR Broadening The Picture

       CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Genetics

       CHAPTER THIRTY What’s In A Name?

       CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Royalty, Nobility & Landed Gentry

       CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Heraldy

       CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Psychics

       Useful Addresses

       Index

       Acknowledgments

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       Introduction

       Long before there were computer programmers and engineers, blacksmiths or even farmers, our ancestors told each other stories of who they were and where they came from. Over time, as other subjects became more important (or at least seemed to be), our ancestral tales began to take a backburner, the older ones blurring into creation