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The Davidsons - The Origins of the Clan Davidson and Their Place in History (Paperback): A.C. McKerracher The Davidsons - The Origins of the Clan Davidson and Their Place in History (Paperback)
A.C. McKerracher
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Thomson - The Origins of the Thomsons and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Thomson - The Origins of the Thomsons and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The MacKay - The Origins of the Clan MacKay and Their Place in History (Paperback): Rennie McOwan The MacKay - The Origins of the Clan MacKay and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Rennie McOwan
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Murray - The Origins of the Clan Murray and Their Place in History (Paperback): Andrew Murray, George Forbes The Murray - The Origins of the Clan Murray and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Andrew Murray, George Forbes
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Shipmans Of East Hawaii (Paperback, New): The Shipmans Of East Hawaii (Paperback, New)
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In December 1854, while en route to a mission post in Micronesia, Jane Shipman gave birth to a son in Lahaina, Maui. For the sake of his wife's health, the Reverend William Cornelius Shipman decided to forgo the trip to Micronesia and took his family instead to the island of Hawai'i, to a lonely mission station in Ka'u. Several generations later, the Shipmans were among the island's best-known families, recognized to this day not only for their contributions to East Hawai'i's civic life, but to a variety of charities and other worthwhile causes. After poring over hundreds of missionary documents and family papers, Emmett Cahill has pieced together the history of a proud Island family that bears witness to the many personal and public achievements of its members while providing readers with an entertaining record of life in Hawai'i in days past. The Shipmans of East Hawai'i will be of great interest to those concerned with the missionary era and the development of agriculture in Hawai'i and the history of East Hawai'i in general.

Funeral Register of the First Presbyterian Church of Belfast, 1712-36 (Paperback, New edition): Jean Agnew Funeral Register of the First Presbyterian Church of Belfast, 1712-36 (Paperback, New edition)
Jean Agnew
R336 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R24 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The first and second Presbyterian congregations of Belfast, in Rosemary Street, owned a collection of palls, cloaks and hats which were hired out for funerals. They were used by most of the better-off inhabitants of Belfast, regardless of religion, and many of the gentry, clergy and substantial farmers in the surrounding countryside. This register, which covers the years 1712 to 1736, is a record of the hiring of this funeral gear for about 2,000 funerals which took place in the town, and as far afield as Counties Londonderry and Tyrone. In this period both the population and trade of Belfast were growing rapidly and the town was well established as the social and economic centre of Ulster. Much of the original register has been printed here together with an index of names, making it immediately accessible for research. To this has been added a series of biographical notes on many of the merchants, gentry, clergy and tradesmen whose funerals are noted. The register is the single most important genealogical source for Belfast in this period but this book will fascinate anyone with an interest in local history. Finally, the transcript retains the phonetic spelling of the original enabling, us to hear the authentic voice of eighteenth century Belfast.

The Mountain of Names - History of the Human Family (Paperback): Alex Shoumatoff The Mountain of Names - History of the Human Family (Paperback)
Alex Shoumatoff
R105 Discovery Miles 1 050 Ships in 4 - 6 working days

International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world.

The Irish Roots Guide (Paperback): Tony McCarthy The Irish Roots Guide (Paperback)
Tony McCarthy
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Irish genealogy now attracts unprecedented interest both at home and abroad. Many who try to trace their roots, however, are disappointed. This practical, fact-filled book can turn failure into success. The Irish Roots Guide - offers clear, step-by-step instructions - provides an introduction to each of the important documentary collections - equips you to do your own research in the Irish archives, showing how to avoid pitfalls - adopts a fresh approach to family history, debunks myths, and never forgets that half of our ancestors were women. Whether your research is to be a lifelong hobby or a once-off quest, this book will prove indispensable.

Great Ancestor Hunt (Paperback): Lila Perl Great Ancestor Hunt (Paperback)
Lila Perl
R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Includes details on how to create your own direct-ancestry chart.


Guide to Irish Parish Registers (Paperback): Brian Mitchell Guide to Irish Parish Registers (Paperback)
Brian Mitchell
R835 Discovery Miles 8 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Managing a Genealogical Project (Paperback): William Dollarhide Managing a Genealogical Project (Paperback)
William Dollarhide
R643 Discovery Miles 6 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"Includes master forms for making unlimited photocopies"--Cover.

Kentuckians in Ohio and Indiana (Paperback): Stuart Sprague Kentuckians in Ohio and Indiana (Paperback)
Stuart Sprague
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Kentuckians in Ohio and Indiana is designed specifically to assist genealogists seeking ancestors from Ohio or Indiana who were originally from Kentucky. Deliberately passing over the conventional record sources, it draws its information from published county histories and county atlases, works containing the type of information likely to be of use to the genealogist. Arranged in tabular format under county of origin, entries include some or all of the following information: the name of the Kentucky migrant, his birth date, the names of his parents and their dates and places of birth (if known), and the date of migration. The name index at the back of the book contains references to more than 10,000 persons.

Rag and Bone - A Family History of What We've Thrown Away (Hardcover): Lisa Woollett Rag and Bone - A Family History of What We've Thrown Away (Hardcover)
Lisa Woollett 1
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'A really important book' RAYNOR WINN From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history of consumption. In a series of beachcombing and mudlarking walks - beginning in the Thames in central London, then out to the Kentish estuary and eventually the sea around Cornwall - Lisa Woollett also tells the story of her family, a number of whom made their living from London's waste, and who made a similar journey downriver from the centre of the city to the sea. A beautifully written but urgent mixture of social history, family memoir and nature writing, Rag and Bone is a book about what we can learn from what we've thrown away - and a call to think more about what we leave behind.

How to Trace Your Family Tree - A Complete & Easy- to-Understand Guide for the Beginner (Paperback): American Genealogy... How to Trace Your Family Tree - A Complete & Easy- to-Understand Guide for the Beginner (Paperback)
American Genealogy Institute
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This hands-on guide for neophyte genealogists explains everything you need to know to trace your family tree--including how to begin, where to go for help, and how to organize your findings.

Austerity Baby (Paperback): Janet Wolff Austerity Baby (Paperback)
Janet Wolff
R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Austerity Baby might best be described as an 'oblique memoir'. Janet Wolff's fascinating volume is a family history - but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the written word. -- .

Finding True Connections - How to Learn and Write About a Family Member's History (Hardcover): Gareth St John Thomas Finding True Connections - How to Learn and Write About a Family Member's History (Hardcover)
Gareth St John Thomas
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Our individual memories define us. Our tribal memories unite us. If these are missing, parts of us are missing too. The Emotional Inheritance division of Exisle Publishing works with a global team of psychologists, writers and historians to provide a premium interview and life story production service, to capture the life stories of elderly family members. This approach is in line with emerging social trends to once again honour and value our ancestors, and is intended to help these generations capture their stories so that they can leave a lasting, meaningful legacy. Finding True Connections clearly and simply sets out the steps necessary for you to undertake this process yourself, without an external interviewer. Designed as a series of double-page spreads, on the left-hand page is a prompt question while, on the facing page, notes provide context to the question and tips and guidance for how to gain the most meaningful answers. Questions are grouped into categories such as 'Early Childhood', 'Adulthood', 'Marriage and Parenthood', 'The Future' and 'Leaving Advice' so that a structured narrative and lasting legacy can be created from the interviewee's answers.

Notice Sur Les Familles Vallet de Villeneuve Et de Guibert (Ed.1893) (French, Paperback, 1893 ed.): Jean De Jaurgain Notice Sur Les Familles Vallet de Villeneuve Et de Guibert (Ed.1893) (French, Paperback, 1893 ed.)
Jean De Jaurgain
R361 Discovery Miles 3 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Woman Between the Worlds - A Call to Your Ancestral and Indigenous Wisdom (Paperback): Apela Colorado Woman Between the Worlds - A Call to Your Ancestral and Indigenous Wisdom (Paperback)
Apela Colorado
R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A ceremonial journey to reconnect with the essence of indigenous spirituality and awaken to its beauty, power and potential in contemporary society. In this book, Apela Colorado, the inspirational authority on indigenous wisdom, shares her lifelong journey of connecting with the essence of indigenous spirituality and culture. From China to Alaska, Benin to France, Apela recounts her passionate work to communicate, conserve, and celebrate sacred indigenous ways, all while reawakening to the wisdom of her Native American and French Gaul ancestors and reclaiming her own truth, healing, and story. With gentle grace and generous insight, this book lovingly teaches us to honor the power, beauty, and potential of indigenous wisdom, and explores how it continues to resonate in modern life. Apela's experiences form a ceremony of remembrance and renewal, a spiritual guide to help you reconnect to the wisdom of your ancestors, apply sacred ways of knowing and being to your life, and reclaim your own Creation Story.

Oh Happy Day - Those Times and These Times (Paperback): Carmen Callil Oh Happy Day - Those Times and These Times (Paperback)
Carmen Callil
R292 R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold 'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times 'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book Review In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great grandmother Sary Lacey, born in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker. Through detailed research, we follow Sary from slum to tenement and from pregnancy to pregnancy. We also meet George Conquest, a canal worker and the father of one of Sary's children. George was sentenced - for a minor theft - to seven years' transportation to Australia, where he faced the extraordinary brutality of convict life. But for George, as for so many disenfranchised British people like him, Australia turned out to be his Happy Day. He survived, prospered and eventually returned to England, where he met Sary again, after nearly thirty years. He brought her out to Australia, and they were never parted again. A miracle of research and fuelled by righteous anger, Oh Happy Day is a story of Empire, migration and the inequality and injustice of nineteenth-century England. 'A remarkable tale...drawing chilling parallels to the inequalities of our times' Observer

Heimat - A German Family Album (Paperback): Nora Krug Heimat - A German Family Album (Paperback)
Nora Krug 1
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home Winner of Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the Year Winner of Book Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards Winner of the The National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography Winner of the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing Shortlisted for the Longman History Today Prize One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' The New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 Nora Krug grew up as a second-generation German after the end of the Second World War, struggling with a profound ambivalence towards her country's recent past. Travelling as a teenager, her accent alone evoked raw emotions in the people she met, an anger she understood, and shared. Seventeen years after leaving Germany for the US, Nora Krug decided she couldn't know who she was without confronting where she'd come from. In Heimat, she documents her journey investigating the lives of her family members under the Nazi regime, visually charting her way back to a country still tainted by war. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, Heimat is a powerful meditation on the search for cultural identity, and the meaning of history and home.

Alfred de Vigny: Etude. Eau-Forte Par G.Staal (French, Paperback): France A Alfred de Vigny: Etude. Eau-Forte Par G.Staal (French, Paperback)
France A
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
How to write and publish your family story in ten easy steps (Paperback): Noeline Kyle How to write and publish your family story in ten easy steps (Paperback)
Noeline Kyle
R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This easy-to-use reference book draws on successful professional experience writing and publishing family histories to create a universal method for novices and seasoned genealogists alike. Demystifying the process of writing and publishing a family history, this book guides future authors beyond their research using 10 basic steps to help them shape the story, develop a narrative, and establish characters. It also aids in writing biographies, constructing chapters, editing text, utilizing technology, and, ultimately, explains how to publish and promote the finished product so that it reaches the widest number of readers possible.

Who Do You Think You Are? - The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History (Paperback): Megan Smolenyak, Wall to Wall Media Who Do You Think You Are? - The Essential Guide to Tracing Your Family History (Paperback)
Megan Smolenyak, Wall to Wall Media
R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The companion how-to guide to the hit TV series-with advice for anyone starting their own genealogical search.
In the groundbreaking NBC series "Who Do You Think You Are?" seven celebrities-Sarah Jessica Parker, Emmitt Smith, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Broderick, Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon, and Spike Lee-went on an emotional journey to trace their family history and discover who they really are, and millions of viewers caught the genealogy bug. With the official companion guide, anyone can learn how to chart their family's unique path. Featuring step-by-step instructions from Megan Smolenyak2, one of America's top genealogical researchers, this book offers everything readers need to know to start the journey into their past, from digging through old photos, to finding the best online resources.

Champagne and Shambles - The Arkwrights and the Country House in Crisis (Paperback): Catherine Beale Champagne and Shambles - The Arkwrights and the Country House in Crisis (Paperback)
Catherine Beale
R430 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R39 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In January 1870, Johnny Arkwright was the largest landowner in Herefordshire. From the processions and balls which celebrated his coming of age, to facing financial ruin at his own sons birthday and the eventual sale of the estate, this book shows, through the example of a prominent family, the downfall of the landed classes.

Family Tree Factbook - Key Genealogy Facts and Strategies for the Busy Researcher (Paperback): Editors of Family Tree Magazine,... Family Tree Factbook - Key Genealogy Facts and Strategies for the Busy Researcher (Paperback)
Editors of Family Tree Magazine, Diane Haddad
R634 R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Save R77 (12%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Discover your roots! The answers to all your genealogy questions in one place! This convenient, timesaving collection of genealogy hacks gathers the best resources, tips, lists, and need-to-know facts from the experts at Family Tree Magazine. Inside, you'll find fast facts about a variety of family history topics, such as important dates in US history, the different kinds of DNA tests, and how to use the best genealogy websites. Inside, you'll find: Key genealogy lists and statistics: common genealogy abbreviations and acronyms, a glossary of genetic genealogy terms, genealogy pitfalls to avoid, and more Strategies for tracking your ancestors in important documents (including census records, passenger lists, and military records) and performing important genealogical tasks (such as searching Ancestry.com) A size perfect for carrying with you wherever your research may lead

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