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Tracing your Ancestors using the UK Historical Timeline - A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback): Angela Smith, Neil Bertram Tracing your Ancestors using the UK Historical Timeline - A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback)
Angela Smith, Neil Bertram
R372 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R34 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This handy book is a timeline guide to genealogical resources - what records are available and when they started - as well as an aide-memoire to significant historical events from 1066 to 2020; helping to put family ancestors into an historical context. Each page in this book has a main column with facts of genealogical relevance in the broadest sense; a side column makes mention of events of socio-cultural significance and events relating to the monarchy, the State and the Church. Entries cover historical and genealogical aspects of all four countries of the UK plus Ireland and the Channel Islands, as well as significant historical events in the wider world that had an impact here. The timeline is especially strong on the contribution of migration, extreme weather, disasters, epidemics, wars, non-conformist religions, taxation, transport, the armed services, famine, empire, organised labour, social writers, mapmakers, political unrest and scientific advances. Genealogically, there is information on changes to BMD certificates and the associated register entries, as well as to censuses and the facts they collected, plus much more. There are also references to earlier records that generated name indexes such as muster rolls and poll taxes, how complete they are and where they can be found. By being reasonably balanced across the centuries, the authors have resisted the temptation to include excessive detail on recent history. This book will help the family historian to construct a timeline for their ancestors, providing a fairly full set of historical events, developments and records likely to have had an impact on them, their family and community. It is a handy reference guide to a myriad of dates but is also a useful book to study when writing a family history as it offers plenty of contextual information. It should also prompt readers to search out new resources in tracing their ancestors.

Family History Record Book - An 8-generation family tree workbook to record your research (Hardcover): Heritage Hunter Family History Record Book - An 8-generation family tree workbook to record your research (Hardcover)
Heritage Hunter
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Lives Between The Lines - A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant (Paperback): Michael Vatikiotis Lives Between The Lines - A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant (Paperback)
Michael Vatikiotis
R291 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R26 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine in search of opportunity. In the process, he reveals a period where the Middle East was a place of ethnic and cultural harmony - where Arabs and Jews rubbed shoulders in bazaars and teashops, intermarried and shared family history. While lines were eventually drawn and people, including Vatikiotis's family, found themselves caught between clashing faiths, contested identities and violent conflict, this intimate and sweeping memoir is a paean to tolerance, offering a nuanced understanding of the lost Levant.

The Farquharsons - The Origins of the Clan Farquharson and Their Place in History (Paperback): Ann Lindsay Mitchell The Farquharsons - The Origins of the Clan Farquharson and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Ann Lindsay Mitchell
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Bruces - The Origins of the Clan Bruce and Their Place in History (Paperback): William Fyfe Hendrie The Bruces - The Origins of the Clan Bruce and Their Place in History (Paperback)
William Fyfe Hendrie
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The MacFarlane - The Origins of the Clan MacFarlane and Their Place in History (Paperback): Jim Hewitson The MacFarlane - The Origins of the Clan MacFarlane and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Jim Hewitson
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Graham - The Origins of the Clan Graham and Their Place in History (Paperback): George Forbes Graham - The Origins of the Clan Graham and Their Place in History (Paperback)
George Forbes
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Johnstone - The Origins of the Clan Johnstone and Their Place in History (Paperback): Jeffey M. Johnstone Johnstone - The Origins of the Clan Johnstone and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Jeffey M. Johnstone
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
How to Trace Your Family Tree (Hardcover): Kathy Chater How to Trace Your Family Tree (Hardcover)
Kathy Chater
R248 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This title offers accessible and clear advice on discovering your family's history in the UK, explaining the best research techniques, how to log and collate your research. It contains all the information needed to start your own search including a useful checklist to guide through each stage. You can experience the amazing thrill of tracing back your bloodline hundreds of years and discovering who your ancestors were and what their lives were like. It contains over 135 illustrations, including diagrams, contemporaneous photographs, document facsimiles, sample family trees and artworks. It includes sections on Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Channel Island records, as well as English. This book introduces the subject of genealogy in a highly practical form, and explains the process of tracing and finding ancestors in the British Isles in a simple and easy-to-follow way. The book begins with the very basics of starting to research, guiding the reader through each stage, from finding clues in photographs and naming patterns, to creating drop-line charts and starting to draw up a family tree. The next section goes back to the early 1800s, and explains how to take investigations further by using all kinds of sources, both in archive form and on the internet, especially census information. The book also goes on to explain how to find relatives through their professions, apprenticeships, education, and military records. This useful guide to genealogy will help you discover your roots, identify your British ancestors, and unlock the secrets of your family heritage.

Dear Edward - Family footprints (Hardcover): Paul Weinberg Dear Edward - Family footprints (Hardcover)
Paul Weinberg
R295 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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-Dark Track - A Family History (Paperback): Joseph O'Neill Blood-Dark Track - A Family History (Paperback)
Joseph O'Neill
R262 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, 'Netherland'. Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers - one Irish, one Turkish - were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O'Neill's other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy. At the age of thirty, Joseph O'Neill set out to uncover his grandfather's stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families and two charismatic but flawed men - it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia and fear, of memories of violence and of fierce commitments to political causes.

Family Histories of World War II - Survivors and Descendants (Paperback): Roisin Healy, Gearoid Barry Family Histories of World War II - Survivors and Descendants (Paperback)
Roisin Healy, Gearoid Barry
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors' experiences ranging from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance to two young Jewish girls caught in the siege of Leningrad. Contributors draw upon a variety of sources, such as contemporary diaries and letters, unpublished postwar memoirs, video footage as well as conversations in the family setting. These chapters attest to the enormous impact that war stories of family members had on subsequent generations. The story of a father who survived Nazi captivity became a lesson in resilience for a daughter with personal difficulties, whereas the story of a grandfather who served the Nazis became a burden that divided the family. At its heart, Family Histories of World War II concerns human experiences in supremely difficult times and their meaning for subsequent generations.

The House of Rothschild - The World's Banker, 1849-1999 (Paperback, Rev Ed): Niall Ferguson The House of Rothschild - The World's Banker, 1849-1999 (Paperback, Rev Ed)
Niall Ferguson
R641 R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Niall Ferguson's House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 was hailed as "definitive" by the New York Times, a "great biography" by Time magazine, and was named one of the Ten Best Books of 1998 by Business Week. Now, Ferguson concludes his myth--breaking portrait of one of the most powerful families of modern times at the zenith of its power. From Crimea to World War II, wars repeatedly threatened the stability of the Rothschild's worldwide empire. Despite these upheavals, theirs remained the biggest bank in the world up until the First World War. Yet the Rothschild's failure to establish themselves successfully in the United States proved fateful, and as financial power shifted from London to New York after 1914, their power waned. At once a classic family saga and major work of economic, social and political history, The House of Rothschild is the riveting story of an unparalleled dynasty.

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (Multiple copy pack): Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (Multiple copy pack)
Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure
R14,773 Discovery Miles 147 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Containing entries for more than 45,000 English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK. The Dictionary includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers showing evidence for formation and continuity from the date of formation down to the 19th century, geographical distribution, and, where relevant, genealogical and bibliographical notes, making this a fully comprehensive work on family names. This authoritative guide also includes an introductory essay explaining the historical background, formation, and typology of surnames and a guide to surnames research and family history research. Additional material also includes a list of published and unpublished lists of surnames from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Women of the Mito Domain - Recollections of Samurai Family Life (Paperback, 1 New Ed): Kikue Yamakawa Women of the Mito Domain - Recollections of Samurai Family Life (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
Kikue Yamakawa; Translated by Kate Wildman Nakai
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The book is a treasure house of immensely informative material. . . . An important addition to the small body of English-language works on the conditions of late Tokugawa society, told at a very human level."--Comparative Studies in Society and History

Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback, 2nd edition): Chris Paton Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Chris Paton
R441 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This fully revised second edition of Chris Paton's best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to make effective use of the internet in your family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace become available, and his handbook is the perfect introduction to them. He has checked and updated all the links and other sources, added new ones, written a new introduction and substantially expanded the social networking section. Never before has it been so easy to research family history using the internet, but he demonstrates that researchers need to take a cautious approach to the information they gain from it. They need to ask, where did the original material come from and has it been accurately reproduced, why was it put online, what has been left out and what is still to come? As he leads the researcher through the multitude of resources that are now accessible online, he helps to answer these questions. He shows what the internet can and cannot do, and he warns against the various traps researchers can fall into along the way.

Dear Granny - Sketch Collection (Hardcover): From You To Me Dear Granny - Sketch Collection (Hardcover)
From You To Me
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dear Granny (sketch design) is an award-winning journal filled with over 60 fun and inspiring questions carefully created to inspire any grandmother to tell her story - probably one of the most valuable gifts you will ever buy. Everyone has stories to share about their own amazing life and it is so important to find ways to capture and treasure them. Dear Granny contains 60 carefully designed questions to ask her about her life. Ask her to complete it carefully, adding photos and memorabilia along the way. Find out how things have changed throughout her life, what things did she do as a child that are different from today. What were her own parents really like and what adventures has she had in her life. Discover what your own mum or dad was like when they were young! What about your own relationship with your grandmother, what are her favourite memories of the times you have spent together and is there any advice she would like to give you? When you get her completed journal returned to you, this will be one of the most emotional presents you have ever received. A great gift for Mother's Day, Grandparent's Day, her birthday, an anniversary, Christmas or just because you care ...

Fox - The Origins of the Fox Family and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Fox - The Origins of the Fox Family and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
McAlpine - The Origins of the  McAlpines and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray McAlpine - The Origins of the McAlpines and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Logan - The Origins of the Logans and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Logan - The Origins of the Logans and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Brodie - The Origins of the Brodies and Their Place in History (Paperback): Iain Gray Brodie - The Origins of the Brodies and Their Place in History (Paperback)
Iain Gray
R116 R103 Discovery Miles 1 030 Save R13 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Nomen et gens (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2011 ed.): Dieter Geuenich, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Joerg Jarnut Nomen et gens (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2011 ed.)
Dieter Geuenich, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Joerg Jarnut
R5,115 Discovery Miles 51 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ancestor Album (Paperback): Tony McCarthy The Ancestor Album (Paperback)
Tony McCarthy
R167 Discovery Miles 1 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Ridge and Furrow - Voices from the Winter Fields (Paperback): Neil Sentance Ridge and Furrow - Voices from the Winter Fields (Paperback)
Neil Sentance
R338 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R33 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In his haunting debut, Water and Sky, published in 2014, Neil Sentance explored the history of his family and the landscape which shaped them. Ridge and Furrow continues the project to chart in prose the voices of a seldom recorded people and place. From the long shadows of war and want, to facing the great changes to rural life in the twentieth century, to first forays into a world beyond the flatlands of Lincolnshire, the book delicately portrays the dreams of lone, and often lonely, figures in one family's history. Ridge and Furrow melds memoir and fiction, place and nature writing, told with characteristic lyricism and muddy realism.

Easy Family History - The Beginner's Guide to Starting Your Research (Paperback, 2nd New edition): David Annal Easy Family History - The Beginner's Guide to Starting Your Research (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
David Annal 1
R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Easy Family History takes the stress out of family history research. It guides readers through the most important information sources for family historians in the UK including family documents, official records, archives and websites. From what to expect on a birth cert to how to use newspaper archives each chapter focuses on an area of research and takes you through the basics. This book focuses on UK records and archives. Fully updated, this new edition includes information on recently released archives such as the 1911 Census and recently digitised military records and archives that are now online. This book features screenshots of useful websites and images of sample archival documents throughout. Author David Annal draws on his expertise and experience as a professional family history researcher to help budding family historians to get started and keep their findings in order and in perspective.

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