Title: The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History
Description: This dictionary provides both amateur and professional historians with quick answers to questions of terminology that may arise in the course of research. It contains, for example, entries on legal and other specialist terms; types of documentation; sources of information; social and religious groups; institutions and organizations; historical and political events; official functions and occupations; and authors and scholars.
Subjects: Family & Relationships, History, Nonfiction, Reference