num_pages: 72
description: This guide is a combination of the "specialist indexes" which have until now appeared in the guide formerly called Marriage, Census and Other Indexes and in a separate guide called Unpublished Personal Name Indexes in Record Offices and Libraries. Owing to the proliferation of marriage and census indexes as well as specialist indexes, the two groups have been divided and now appear separately as Marriage and Census Indexes and Specialist Indexes. Thus, with the exception of census records and marriage records, Specialist Indexes is a guide to just about every other class of records that might be of use to the genealogist--everything from apprenticeship records to tithe lists, from tax rolls to debtors lists, and from indexes of foundlings to lists of vagrants. In the preparation of the second edition of this work Mr. Gibson circulated hundreds of libraries and record offices throughout Britain asking for details of manuscript indexes to their collections. The responses were then broken down by geographic region and by record group. Published here, they form what is almost certainly the most comprehensive guide to unpublished finding aids available.
language: English
title: Specialist Indexes for Family Historians
titlecomplete: Specialist Indexes for Family Historians
publisher: Genealogical Pub Co