Family history, tracing ancestors

Often, our most fascinating ancestors are those on society’s margins.

Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.

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Often, our most fascinating ancestors are those on society’s margins.

Tracing your Family History using Irish Newspapers is a great introduction for the family historian into Irish newspapers, journals and periodicals and how these resources can be used to paint a picture of the lives of your ancestors with so much more than what can be found in primary source material.

Birth, marriage and death records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them.

'A very readable history of the British way of life viewed through its homes' Choice MagazineIn recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history.

Tracing your Family History using Irish Newspapers is a great introduction for the family historian into Irish newspapers, journals and periodicals and how these resources can be used to paint a picture of the lives of your ancestors with so much more than what can be found in primary source material.

Drawn by family.

An accessible, user-friendly handbook for all amateur genealogists seeking their Scottish roots.

An abandoned baby.

Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.

Dictionary of Surnames is the definitive guide to the origin and meaning of British surnames by one of Britain's leading authority on names.

An extraordinary portrait of one family across the years of Japan's greatest changes; a loving, honest, moving biography of the author's mother.

A concise handbook for genealogical research into patients of British mental institutions from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.

An expert genealogist explains how to share your family history online and collaborate with distant relatives to build a richer ancestral story.

This fully revised second edition of Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor.

This book is an essential handbook for those researching their ancestry in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and the city of Bristol.

Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law?

Gill Blanchards practical and informative handbook will help you to trace your ancestors in the traditional counties of East Anglia - Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex and it will give you a fascinating insight into their lives.

A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens.

Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling.

Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor.

This fully revised second edition of Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor.

A heartwarming and dramatic World War I saga of secrets, love and the British royal family for readers of Daisy Styles and Maisie Thomas.

If you want to find out about your Yorkshire ancestors, you can visit the many unusual and fascinating archives in England's largest county.

Tracing Your Channel Islands Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in libraries and archives in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark.

Anthony Burton's concise and informative guide to British shipbuilding will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or find out about the life of a shipbuilder and his family.

Alex Ombler’s handbook is the first practical guide for family historians who wish to find out about family members who worked in British docks.

As a child, Anthony Sampson was haunted by a family skeleton.

"e;Almost every book on English research highlights the need to examine the wills of our ancestors.

Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the second world war after an extraordinary early life,passed her time by compiling a book about the joys of food.

The First World War was perhaps the most traumatic event of the Twentieth Century.

The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother.

Tracing Your Roman Catholic Ancestors is the ideal handbook for readers and researchers who are keen to find out about their Roman Catholic ancestors and for anyone who wants an introduction to Roman Catholic history in general.

The medical profession had as much influence on the lives of our ancestors as it does on our lives today.

Melanie McGrath's critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in ebook format.

The First World War was perhaps the most traumatic event of the Twentieth Century.

Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who lived and worked in the countryside as farmers, laborers, landowners, village tradesmen and professionals for most of us have rural ancestors.

The law had as much influence on our ancestors as it does on us today, and it occupies an extraordinary range of individuals, from eminent judges and barristers to clerks and minor officials.