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Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history
This accessible, well-organized, easy-to-use beginners' guide to
the world of family history is essential reading for anyone who
wants to find their way into this fascinating subject. In a series
of short, practical chapters Simon Fowler takes readers through all
the first steps that will reveal the lives of their ancestors and
the world they lived in. He looks at every aspect of research, from
finding family papers and interviewing relatives, through exploring
websites, archives, newspapers and directories, to all the other
sources that can throw a light into the past. In a clear,
straightforward way he explains how vital records of births,
marriages and deaths can be used as the starting point in a
sequence of eye-opening family detective work. Simon Fowler's
introduction, which is founded on a career of genealogical research
and writing, is an indispensable basic book for anyone entering in
the field.
Since its first publication, twenty years ago, Track Down Your
Ancestors has helped thousands of readers to take the first steps
on their journey into their family's past. Now totally revised and
updated in 2010, to include the latest on-line resources on the
Internet, the 1911 Census and changes at the National Archives.
Delving into the past and discovering who your ancestors were,
where they lived and what their occupations were is a fascinating
hobby that more and more people are choosing to take up. Over the
years Track Down Your Ancestors has built up a fine reputation as
the perfect place to get started - now this new, fully rewritten
edition includes updated advice on using birth, death and marriage
certificates, probate records, census returns, parish registers,
old newspapers, The National Archives and many other sources to
build up a picture of your family's past. The Internet has
revolutionised family history research. Estelle now also includes
comprehensive new advice on getting the most from online resources
and the best way to keep all your information organised. Praise for
the previous edition: 'A handy book at a very friendly price that
will start new family historians off on the right track.' Practical
Family History 'A comprehensive beginner's guide to family history
research - cheap too!' Your Family Tree magazine
Lavishly illustrated with images and stunning photographs from
private collections and spanning three generations, delve into the
history of Thomas Clark and his family... Rising from obscure
beginnings to become a gentleman in the Victorian age dominated by
the class system, as a merchant, Thomas was importing exotic
produce from around the globe into the City of London. The diaries
of his daughter Matilda throw open a window onto the stresses and
strains of family life, showing a stereotypical Victorian father
(including the bad temper). Follow his eldest son through his
artistic endeavours as a lecturer, writer, poet and artist. There
is a shift of perspective on his authoritarian father; here is a
devoted family man who adored his wife and spent time with his
family. A man dedicated to both science and religion in a world in
which he found some new teachings objectionable as an evangelical
non-conformist Protestant. Finally, the life stories of his
children unfold, including the author's grandfather; they were born
into privilege but transcended the modern world which saw social
change. Moving recollections of lives lived up to the 1950s from
children, grandchildren and local residents are revealed. Read
these fascinating tales, including that of the great-uncle who
appears to have made an important invention, which played a
significant role in winning the Great War - but perhaps someone
else ended up claiming the credit? A fascinating and readable saga
of the highest order. John Titford MA FSA
Record Your Family History! From the editors of Family Tree
Magazine, this workbook makes it easy to record and organize your
family history. Family Tree Memory Keeper helps you keep track of
basic genealogy information and special family memories, including
traditions, heirloom histories, family records, newsworthy moments,
family migrations and immigrations, old recipes, important dates,
and much more. This book features: Dozens of fill-in pages to
record all your essential family information. Convenient paperback
format for writing and photocopying pages. Space for mounting
photographs. Maps to mark your family's migration routes. Tips for
researching your family history. A comprehensive list of additional
resources. Use Family Tree Memory Keeper to log your genealogy
research. Bring it to family get-togethers to gather and share
information. Create an invaluable record of your ancestry for
future generations.
'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON
SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the
Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has
been much mythologized. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain
virtually unknown. From the East End of London to the Eastern
seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish
castles, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to
Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of
the English branch of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the
nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty first. As Jews
in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family,
they were outsiders. Determined to challenge and subvert
expectations, they supported each other, building on the legacies
of their mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and
talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising
prime ministers, advocating for social reform and trading on the
stock exchange. Misfits and conformists, conservatives and
idealists, performers and introverts, they mixed with Rossini and
Mendelssohn, Disraeli, Gladstone and Chaim Weizmann,
amphetamine-dealers, temperance campaigners, Queen Victoria, and
Albert Einstein. They broke code, played a pioneering role in the
environmental movement, scandalised the world of women's tennis by
introducing the overarm serve and drag-raced with Miles Davies in
Manhattan. Absorbing and compulsive THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD gives
voice to the complicated, privileged and gifted women whose vision
and tenacity shaped history.
Unlock the secrets in your DNA!
Discover the answers to your family history mysteries using the
most-cutting edge tool available. This plain-English guide is a
one-stop resource for how to use DNA testing for genealogy. Inside,
you'll find guidance on what DNA tests are available, plus the
methodologies and pros and cons of the three major testing companies
and advice on choosing the right test to answer your specific genealogy
questions. And once you've taken a DNA test, this guide will demystify
the often-overwhelming subject and explain how to interpret DNA test
results, including how to understand ethnicity estimates and haplogroup
designations, navigate suggested cousin matches, and use third-party
tools like GEDmatch to further analyze your data. To give you a
holistic view of genetic testing for ancestry, the book also discusses
the ethics and future of genetic genealogy, as well as how adoptees and
others who know little about their ancestry can especially benefit from
DNA testing.
The book features:
- Colorful diagrams and expert definitions that explain key DNA
terms and concepts such as haplogroups and DNA inheritance patterns
- Detailed guides to each of the major kinds of DNA tests and which
tests can solve which family mysteries, with case studies showing how
each can be useful
- Information about third-party tools you can use to more
thoroughly analyze your test results once you've received them
- Test comparison guides and research forms to help you select the
most appropriate DNA test and organize your results and research once
you've been tested
Whether you've just heard of DNA testing or you've tested at all three
major companies, this guide will give you the tools you need to
unpuzzle your DNA and discover what it can tell you about your family
tree.
A panoramic new history of modern Britain, as told through the story of one extraordinary family, and one groundbreaking company.
This is the story of how a family transformed themselves from penniless immigrants to build a company that revolutionised the way we eat, drink and are entertained. For over a century, Lyons was everywhere. Its restaurants and corner houses were on every high street, its coffee and tea in every cup, its products in every home. But it was a victory that was not easily won.
Told through the lives of five generations, Legacy is at once intimate and sweeping, charting the tragedy and unimaginable success of one of Britain's most famous families. It is also an illuminating new exploration of Britain and its place in the world, from the bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake.
Everybody knows about Charles Darwin, and many know about others in
his family, from Erasmus Darwin and Tom Wedgwood, the first
photographer, to composer Ralph Vaughan Williams and poet and
radical John Cornford, the first Briton to be killed in the Spanish
Civil War. But when Charles and Emma Darwin's
great-great-granddaughter, another Emma Darwin, tried to root her
new novel in that history, the conflict between her complex
heritage, and her own identity as a writer, became a battle that
nearly killed her. This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin takes
the reader on a writer's journey through the Darwin-Wedgwood-Galton
clan, as seen through the lens of Emma's struggle. Along the way,
her wry, witty and honest memoir becomes a brave book about failure
- and, above all, a book about writing and how stories are told.
Richly illustrated with over 40 black and white images.
Part One of this large format book will enable you to collect
information for your family tree simply by talking to people, and
provides a series of beautiful fill-in charts to permanently record
a family tree of up to five generations. Part Two contains
information on Irish family history and includes advice for those
who want to proceed further with this fascinating hobby. The
Ancestor Album is the ideal book for the beginner. If you don't
want to do the family tree yourself give it to the kids and get
them to do it.
This book is a personal journey into the family archives of
photographer Paul Weinberg. As a child his sorties into an old
black trunk that the family had at home where he encountered
stamps, letters, photographs and most importantly postcards,
excited his imagination to a world far beyond the borders of South
Africa and the African continent. They became a collection of
connections to his grandparents, to their 'roots' in eastern Europe
and his own. The book explores his past as he retraces his family
footprints in South Africa. It takes him to far-flung small towns
in the interior of South Africa where the family eventually found a
niche for themselves in the hotel trade. In the form of postcards
to his great grandfather, Edward, it is on one hand a visual
narrative of this journey and on another a multi-layered travel
book as he pieces the jigsaw of his family's footprints together. A
sub-theme of the book is a story of the 'old hotel' which was at
one point so central and dynamic in the lives of many of these
small towns. Weinberg revisits these hotels and explores their
whereabouts, and their evolution. Weaving history,
historiographies, memoir and archive into a personal pilgrimage,
this book offers fresh insights and perspectives on a family who
made this country their 'adopted home'. Through the metaphor of the
postcard this book sets up a dialogue between the author, his great
grandfather, the past and the present, and asks important questions
about who writes history, and who is left out.
Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a
remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East
Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young,
hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in
Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced,
torn apart by the Great War, broke up as its surviving members
pursued separate lives around the globe. Of seven sons who served
in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically
wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically
unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifi
ce on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left
behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the
rest of her days. This is the tale of how a once proud and
aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the
effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a
century later, the threads of this remarkable family are finally
drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb
documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.
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