Tracing your Yorkshire ancestors
Subtitle: a guide for family historians
By: Rachel Bellerby
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Pen & Sword family history (Series)
Publisher: Pen & Sword Family History
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Barnsley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781783030095
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Handbooks, manuals; Genealogy; Archival resources
Description: "This fully revised second edition of Rachel Bellerby's best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to find out about your Yorkshire ancestors. As well as tracing when your ancestors were born, married and died, she shows you how can explore how they lived, worked and spent their leisure time. She introduces readers to the many sources that hold a wealth of information about Yorkshire's past, and describes the records you can find in archives and online which will bring your research to life. Whatever you would like to discover more about, from fairground travellers to Romany gypsies, from working deep underground in a mine to making a living from the North Sea, there is so much to learn. The many different archives that welcome family history researchers are explored here and explained. A new chapter covering the growing number of Yorkshire family history websites has been added along with a range of new illustrations. The contact details of the sources listed in the first edition of the book have been revised and new sources and relevant organizations have been added. Dozens of places, from tiny museum archives to large research centres, are open for your research, and a wealth of information is now accessible through the internet. Tracing your Yorkshire ancestors has never been more exciting"--Back cover.
Notes: Previous edition: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Making a living: land and sea (The geography of the copunty ; Fishing in Yorkshire ; Shipbuilding ; Mining ; Machinery and engineering ; Steel ; Railways ; Confectionery); title: From serges to saris: the textile trade (The West Riding textile industries ; Philanthropists ; The North Riding linen industry ; Textile archives ; Textile accidents); title: 3. Great estates: living and working on the land (Where to find estate records ; Monasteries ; Types of estate records ; Family letters ; Manorial records ; Manorial documents register ; Maps ; Business and commercial activity ; Case study: Estate records at North Yorkshire County Record Office); title: 4. Street life: urban ancestors (Local photographs ; Maps and plans ; Local newspapers ; Trade directories ; Unrest ; Local council records ; Local studies libraries); title: 5. From sport to shopping: leisure time (Theatre ; Sports clubs ; Council reports ; The Yorkshire Co-operative Society ; National Fairground Archive ; Yorkshire Film Archive); title: 6. Religion: Established Church and Nonconformity (The organization of religious records ; The Established Church ; Nonconformity ; Roman Catholicism ; Other nonconformity ; The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) ; The Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York ; The Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade ; Churchyards and burial grounds ; Case study: The records of the Catholic Apostolic Church, Horton, Bradford); title: 7. Education and institutions (Schools ; Types of school records ; Evening classes ; Adult education in the North Riding ; Leeds University Archives ; The Co-operative movement and education ; Charitable institutions ; Council documents ; Case study: Your City Archives workhouse records); title: 8. Uniformed ancestors (Army records ; Local newspapers ; The Home Front ; War memorials ; The Liddle Collection ; The Second World War Experience Cenrre ; Yorkshire Air Museum ; Law and order); title: 9. Migration and poverty (Immigration ; Tracing immigrant ancestors ; Migration ; Poverty); title: 10. Directory of archive repositories and family history societies (Archives ; Museum archives ; The National Fairground Archive ; Librares ; Miscellaneous ; Family history societies in Yorkshire); title: 11. Directory of archive repositories and family history societies; title: Conclusion.