Collins tracing your family history
By: Anthony Adolph
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780007274925
Subjects: Genealogy
Other titles: Tracing your family history
Description: "Firmly practical in its approach, yet entertaining in its style, this reference guide is the indispensable companion for all who are seeking a reliable, one-source volume to use while tracking down their family origins. New and up-to-date content helps you make the most of your resources - such as how best to utilise the internet, and informs you about the most recent records released which could be vital to your search for your ancestry. The book gives comprehensive guidance on the full variety of governmental, religious and more obscure records available to the family history sleuth. The guide also contains highly useful advice on how to expand and reinvigorate a search when the trail runs cold - as it inevitably will."--Global Books in Print.
Notes: Previous edition: 2005.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Ask the family; title: Writing it all down; title: Ancestral pictures; title: Before you begin; title: General registration; title: Censuses; title: The main websites; title: Directories & almanacs; title: Lives less ordinary; title: Parish records; title: Manorial records; title: Wills; title: Gravestones & memorials; title: Newspapers & magazines; title: Land records; title: Slave ancestry; title: Maps & local histories; title: Records of elections; title: The parish chest; title: Hospitals & workhouses; title: What people did; title: Fighting forbears; title: Tax & other financial matters; title: Swearing oaths; title: Legal accounts; title: Education! Education! Education!; title: Immigration & emigration; title: Religious denominations in Britain; title: Genetics; title: What's in a name?; title: Royalty, nobility & landed gentry; title: Heraldry; title: Psychics.