Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors: A Guide for Family & Local Historians (Tracing Your Ancestors)
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Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In vivid detail it describes the rise of Glasgow through tobacco, shipping, manufacturing and trade from a minor cathedral town to the cosmopolitan center of the present day. Ian Maxwells book focuses on the lives of the local people both rich and poor and on their experience as Glasgow developed around them. It looks at their living conditions, at health and the ravages of disease, at the influence of religion and migration and education. It is the story of the Irish and Highland migrants, Quakers, Jews, Irish, Italians, and more recently people from the Caribbean, South-Asia and China who have made Glasgow their home. A wealth of information on the city and its people is available, and Glasgow Ancestors is an essential guide for anyone researching its history or the life of an individual ancestor. institutions, clubs, societies and schools.


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Page Flip: Enabled
Part of series: Tracing Your Ancestors
Language: English
File size: 9225 KB
Publisher: Pen & Sword Family History
Print length: 205 pages
Publication date: February 28, 2017
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
Word Wise: Enabled
subtitle: Kindle Edition
author: Ian Maxwell