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Useful books - please add
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Joy | Report | 27 Oct 2007 22:17 |
to borrow from the library or buy to keep for reference |
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Joy | Report | 27 Oct 2007 22:17 |
Beginning Your Family History |
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was plain ann now annielaurie | Report | 27 Oct 2007 22:27 |
The very best book on this subject - covers almost everything, is Ancestral Trails, by Herber. |
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Heather | Report | 27 Oct 2007 22:35 |
I left a note on here recently - to look at extracts of unusual, rare books - check out google books search. Go to google page, click on more and then click on search books. Use key words to search. |
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Kenneth | Report | 27 Oct 2007 23:45 |
I followed up on Heather's original message re: 'search books'... pretty good too; have a peep! |
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Madmeg | Report | 28 Oct 2007 01:48 |
The problem with books is that they are out of date so quickly, with technology taking over from paper records. |
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Joy | Report | 28 Oct 2007 09:15 |
Thank you, Heather, that's a really good tip. |
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Joy | Report | 28 Oct 2007 19:58 |
By Eve McLaughlin |
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Redharissa | Report | 28 Oct 2007 21:26 |
"The Family and Local History Handbook" is very useful. The current issue is number 10, with number 11 being due out some time in 2008. |
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Heather | Report | 28 Oct 2007 23:47 |
I found one book on google books with literally pages of M.I.s for Bermondsey in the 18th century. Also a record of the death of one of my line on a ship returning from India in the 18th century - we had believed hed died at sea but not found confirmation before. |
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Heather | Report | 28 Oct 2007 23:51 |
Oh another tip - abebooks - google for them. If you enter a key word there it brings up books for areas or subjects - second hand ones. I got one recently on 300 years of the Thames, Hays Wharf. Brilliant book, about 60 years old, got it for a fiver plus postage. Smashing stuff in there, very useful indeed. |
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Joy | Report | 9 Jul 2009 12:57 |
nudge |
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 9 Jul 2009 15:08 |
Dear All |
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Joy | Report | 12 Jul 2009 21:49 |
Thank you. |
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Janet 693215 | Report | 12 Jul 2009 22:37 |
Any old A-Z style map for the area of your research. I picked up a 2nd edition London A-Z on a 2nd hand stall at a music festival 5 years ago. It dates from 1938 and cost £3. It shows all the Victorian streets my lot lived in and has been more use than my Victorian A-Z that cost £20 from the FRC |
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Joy | Report | 1 Aug 2009 08:50 |
Thank you. |
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 9 Aug 2009 17:00 |
Nudge for this very helpful thread. |
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Kathryn | Report | 9 Aug 2009 18:45 |
'The Female Line - Researching your Female Ancestors' by Margaret Ward, Countryside Books 2003, ISBN: 978-1853068188 |
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Joy | Report | 28 Nov 2009 22:37 |
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mgnv | Report | 29 Nov 2009 04:05 |
There's a reading list in the course handbook here: |