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Need to Know? Tracing Your Family History (Adolph)

by Anthony Adolph

Both practical and entertaining, Need to Know? Tracing Your Family History is the essential beginner’s guide to unravelling the mystery of your family’s origins.

With invaluable tips, advice and information from professional genealogist Anthony Adolph, navigating your way through the wealth of governmental, religious and more obscure records available will suddenly seem manageable.

With particular emphasis on the Internet as an indispensable resource that can be your main starting point or help further your research, this book manages to simplify what can be a very intricate process, making it both highly enjoyable and ultimately rewarding and illuminating.
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Reviews for Collins Tracing Your Family History:

‘Definitive advice for anyone interested in tracing their family’s past.’ Family Tree Magazine.

‘…the information is superb.’ Ancestors.

‘The overriding feeling about this book is that it is bending over backwards to try and assist researchers, providing answers by almost pre-empting the questions.’ Your Family Tree.

‘Enthusiasm and quirky knowledge (that) makes this book stand out.’ Family History Monthly.

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Price: £9.95

How to Trace Your Ancestors

Written by Brian Smailes a tutor of family history courses this is a practical beginners guide for anyone setting out on this rewarding hobby. The book will explain to you the basics of how to start, what you need, how and where to obtain information and how to record details of your findings.

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Price: £3.95

Genealogy for Beginners

by Karin Proudfoot

An excellent place to start. This is the seventh edition of a book written more than 20 years ago by Arthur Willis. It is one of the most up-to-date books we have found with chapters on; using the internet, birth, marriage and death certificates, census returns, parish registers, The National Archives, Public Record Office and Society of Genealogists. A must read for any beginner.

Published 2003, Paperback, 126 pages.

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Ref: PGFB

Price: £8.95

Who Do You Think You Are? Book (Series 1) Ref: WDYT

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Pages: Dan Waddell

BBC Books

October 2004

Paperback

(24.5 x 19.3cm)

191

This is the book that accompanied the BBC2 series. The book equips you with the basic tools to start and maintain your search. There is information on everything from where to find census information and how to order a birth certificate, to tracking down immigration documents or finding out if your navy officer great-great-uncle ever committed a disciplinary offence.

The book also covers the stories behind each of the ten TV personalities from the series. This is a jargon-free guide showing you how to find out about you own family tree.

(Publishers price £12.99)

Price: £11.95

Suceeding in Family History Ref: SFHJT

Price: £6.95

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Pages: John Titford

Countryside Books

2001

1853066915

Paperback

A5

112
John Titford, with his usual clarity and enthusiasm, guides the family historian through the many likely pitfalls and cul-de-sacs of early research, step by step. The topics covered here are - Names (first names and surnames); English and Welsh Certificates (birth,marriage and death); and Census Returns, from their inception in 1841.

Price: £6.95

Starting Your Family History Ref: SYFH

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Pages: Margaret Ward

Countryside Books

2006

1853068853

Paperback

A5

96
A new easy to understand beginner's guide to researching your family history, written by the author of The Female Line. "This slim, accessible volumn offers an excellent overview for absolute beginners, taking wannabe family historians through all the elementary steps" - Family History Monthly.

Price: £5.95

First Steps in Family History Ref: FSFH

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Pages: Society of Genealogists

Society of Genealogists Enterprises

2005 4th Edition

1903462878

Paperback

A4

51
Originally published in 1993 this latest edition of First Steps in Family History updates the Society of Genealogists' essential guidance manual for anyone beginning their family history. First Steps in Family History introduces the sources and record offices that will help anyone start family history research. It also includes information about web sites, CD ROMs, electronic databases, online indexes as well as useful books and finding aids.

There are some excellent search tips and advice for beginners and a useful quick reference time line chart of sources that can be of help as you climb further up your family tree. Take up the challenge and see if you can fill in the birth brief pedigree chart at the back of the book and collect all your 16 great -great-grandparents.

Price: £6.95

Introducing Family History

By Stuart A. Raymond.

146 pages.

ISBN 1-86006-196-6.

Every family has a history. Most of us know something about our parents and our grandparents, but there is usually much more information that could be discovered. That information can be fascinating, and often explains why things were the way they were in our childhood.

Family history has become much easier to research in the last few years. Some of the most important sources are now available at the click of a mouse on the Internet. However, a basic understanding of these sources is still essential if you are to trace your family tree.

This book provides the basic guidance needed to begin your investigations into your family history. The author explains what sources of information are available, where to find them, and how to use them. He tells you how to trace your ancestors, and encourages you to understand their lives against the background of the society they lived in.

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Price: £8.95

Need to Know? Tracing Your Family History (Adolph)

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Smart Family History Ref: SFH

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Pages: Geoff Swinfield

The National Archives

February 2006

1-903365-80-5

Paperback

250
The National Archives’ new, intermediate-level guide full of time-saving tips and proven techniques to help you discover even more

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This is a unique concise guide for family historians who have looked at basic sources and are impatient to find out more. It combines clear, helpful advice on interpreting the census, civil registration and other key records with suggestions on what to do next and how to use existing findings to best effect. Renowned for his talk ‘I’m stuck: where do I go from here?’, expert Geoff Swinfield offers a wealth of smart ideas to help you save time, avoid common pitfalls and progress your research more efficiently. He gives advice on each stage of your ancestor’s life, offering new directions and approaches through a wide range of websites and indexes, directories and specialist sources. Affordable, practical and easy-to-use, this will enable any genealogist to get the very best from their research.

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Introduction
A Start in Life: birth and baptism, adoption, foundlings, the Ripple Method…
Out of School: education and training
Settling Down: marriage, nonconformity, localization and naming patterns…
Serving Your Country: specialist military records and indexes
Making it Legal: records of court, land and property
A Matter of Status: professional indexes/directories, Who’s Who, heraldry… Passing Away: death and burial, obituaries, probate…
Addresses, websites, books and magazines

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Dr Geoff Swinfield began his studies in genealogy in 1979 at the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS). Since then he has worked as a professional researcher, and has lectured widely on the subject at the Society of Genealogists, IHGS, and London’s Birkbeck College, as well as researching celebrity genealogies for the national press.

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Easy Family History Ref: EFH

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Pages: David Annal

The National Archives

February 2006

1-903365-79-1

Paperback

266
Easy Family History is The National Archives' new pocket guide, designed to ease beginners into family history.

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This guide is for everyone interested in their ancestors whose research has not yet begun, or is in its early stages. It offers exactly what it says on the cover. David Annal introduces all the relevant sources of information in easy steps and most logical sequence, focusing on what you really need to know. The chapters are interwoven with practical features on issues that could crop up during research: for example different spellings of your ancestor's surname.

Written with humour and minimum fuss, this is the most accessible guide on the market - and at a size and price to suit any pocket.

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Homework: domestic sources
In the Beginning: birth records
Coming Together: marriage records
Counting the People: census returns
Ashes to Ashes: death records
Where There's a Will: probate records
Going Back in Time: parish registers
Where in the World: maps and photographs
Read All About It: newspapers
The Whole World is Out There: the internet
Where Do I Go Now?

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David Annal was a professional genealogical researcher until he joined the Family Records Centre in 1998. He is currently the FRC's development manager. He is on the editorial board of The National Archives' Ancestors magazine, and has written widely on family history.

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My Family Tree Book (for children) Ref: MFTB
Get the grandchildren interested in their family history. A 24 page full colour book for children to fill in basic details about immediate family members. The book asks questions such as:
Where were your born?
Do you have any brothers or sisters?
How many aunts and uncles do you have?
What are their names?

Price: £4.95

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