Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records: A Guide for Family Historians (Family History) - Tapa blanda

Oates, Jonathan

 
9781473838024: Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records: A Guide for Family Historians (Family History)
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ISBN 10: 1473838029 ISBN 13: 9781473838024
Editorial: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2016

Sinopsis

Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places - it should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew - and research into local history records is one of the most rewarding ways of gaining this kind of insight into their world. That is why Jonathan Oates's detailed introduction to these records is such a useful tool for anyone who is trying to piece together a portrait of family members from the past. In a series of concise and informative chapters he looks at the origins and importance of local history from the sixteenth century onwards and at the principal archives - national and local, those kept by government, councils, boroughs, museums, parishes, schools and clubs. He also explains how books, photographs and other illustrations, newspapers, maps, directories, and a range of other resources can be accessed and interpreted and how they can help to fill a gap in your knowledge.As well as describing how these records were compiled, he highlights their limitations and the possible pitfalls of using them, and he suggests how they can be combined to build up a picture of an individual, a family and the place and time in which they lived.

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Acerca del autor

Dr Jonathan Oates is the Ealing Borough Archivist and Local History Librarian, and he has written and lectured on the Jacobite rebellions and on aspects of the history of London, including its criminal past. His two most recent books on criminal history are John Christie of Rillington Place and John George Haigh, the Acid-Bath Murderer. He is also well known as an expert on family history and has written several introductory books on the subject including Tracing Your London Ancestors and Tracing Your Ancestors From 1066 to 1837.

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Editorial
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1473838029
ISBN 13 
9781473838024
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
163
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