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Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours
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.
"I never missed my childhood home / until the tide stopped rolling
in and / ochre sand no longer crunched between my toes ..." A
little girl grows up to the sounds of the seaside in bustling
Cleethorpes. There are family outings through the Lincolnshire
Wolds in a tiny Austin 7, and ferry rides across the Humber. Family
runs like a comforting thread throughout this 'little gem of a
book', and lifelong friendships are forged in unexpected places ...
A gentle and heartfelt memoir about the timeless call of the sea
What does a writer do when he's got a family that includes a
blacklisted member of the Hollywood Ten, the brains behind Tony the
Tiger and the Marlboro Man, a trio of gay puppeteers, the world's
leading birdwatcher, sixties hippies, a Dutch stowaway who served
in an all-black regiment during the American Civil War, a mother of
unusual compassion and understanding, and a convicted murderer? He
tells their stories and secrets, illuminating 150 years of American
life along the way. Dan Bessie begins the journey through his
family history with his great-grandfather in the cargo hold of a
ship bound for New York on the storm-tossed Atlantic. What follows
are stories of his grandfather's various entrepreneurial schemes
(including a folding butter box business), a grandmother who was
voted "New York's Prettiest Shop Girl" (and who resisted the
recruitment efforts of various city madams), and his uncle Harry's
Turnabout Theater in Los Angeles (a renowned puppet theater drawing
patrons as diverse as Shirley Temple, Ray Bradbury, and Albert
Einstein). Through inherited journals and literary effects, Bessie
comes to a new understanding of his father, Alvah. An actor and
writer, he fought in the Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil
War. When he returned to the States, he headed to the Warner back
lots to begin a screenwriting career. But as congress began
investigating radicals in the film industry, Alvah was blacklisted
for his Communist sympathies and was soon sent to jail as one of
the Hollywood Ten. His grandmother's cousin, Sidney Lenz, wrote
Lenz on Bridge, a classic guide to the game of contract bridge.
Bessie describes what was billed as the Bridge Battle of the
Century, a 1931 match between Lenz and an upstart opponent that was
covered by journalists from all over the world. Bessie's
brother-in-law Wes Wilson designed rock and roll posters for the
Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco during the 1960s, living a
counterculture existence vastly different from the bridge-mad
Depression Era. Cousin Michael was heir to the compulsive
storytelling characterizing many of the Bessies. He found his niche
in publishing, co-founding the Atheneum Press and shaping books by
people such as Anwar Sadat, Edward Albee, and Aldous Huxley. With
an equally impressive career, Uncle Leo built the country's fifth
largest advertising agency. A passion of a different sort led
cousin Phoebe Snetsinger to travel from Webster Groves, Missouri,
to the far corners of Africa and Asia. The world's leading birder,
she sighted 8,400 different birds-nearly 85 percent of the species
known to exist. An extraordinary strain of creativity runs through
the Bessie and Burnett clans, and Rare Birds celebrates the
colorful diversity of a remarkable and accomplished family. While
their choices and professions run the gamut of the American
experience in the twentieth century, the history of the nation can
be traced in these people's lives. Bessie's passionate birds of a
feather gather to sing their unique song across decades and
generations. Dan Bessie has been a film writer, director, producer,
and animator since apprenticing on Tom and Jerry cartoons at MGM in
1956.
Heraldry's unfamiliar terminology discourages people from learning
more about this fascinating subject but heraldic language is
essential for the precise description of a coat of arms. This book
provides a gentle introduction explaining terms and providing basic
principles.
First full edition of a crucial source for knowledge of the period.
The eyre roll is a major source of information about medieval life,
ranging from local courts and land tenure through town customs and
the status of women to general neighbourliness. This is especially
important for Northumberland, where constant border raiding was
detrimental to the accumulation of local records. The survival of
the Northumberland Eyre Roll for 1293, recording over eleven
hundred law suits, provides a rare glimpse of the county
(togetherwith information on Lancashire, Westmorland and
Cumberland) on the eve of the outbreak of the Anglo-Scottish wars;
as only brief extracts from the roll have been published
previously, this full edition will be warmly welcomed. Thetext is
accompanied by notes and a subject index providing a full guide to
topics of special interest. CONSTANCE FRASER is a retired lecturer.
Genealogist Keith Gregson takes the reader on a whistle-stop tour
of quirky family stories and strange ancestors rooted out by
amateur and professional family historians. Each lively entry tells
the story behind each discovery and then offers a brief insight
into how the researcher found and then followed up their leads,
revealing a range of chance encounters and the detective qualities
required of a family historian. For example, one researcher
discovered that his great-great-grandfather, as a child, was
carried across the main street of West Hartlepool on the back of
the famous tightrope walker Blondin. The Victorian newspaper report
said that the rope had been tied between two chimney pots. Research
into the author's own family revealed that one of his
nineteenth-century ancestors lost his leg in a Midlands coal-mining
accident, and that the amputated leg was buried in the local
cemetery - to be joined by the rest of him on his final demise. A
Viking in the Family is full of similar unexpected discoveries in
the branches of family trees.
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY
FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF
THE YEAR 2019 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening
Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing,
tragic, but also uplifting' The Times
__________________________________________________ Little Lien
wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given
away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a
foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she
survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much
later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es - the
grandson of Lien's foster parents - knew he needed to find out why.
His account of tracing Lien and telling her story is a searing
exploration of two lives and two families. It is a story about love
and misunderstanding and about the ways that our most painful
experiences - so crucial in defining us - can also be redefined.
___________________________________________________ 'Luminous,
elegant, haunting - I read it straight through' Philippe Sands,
author of East West Street 'Deeply moving. Writes with an almost
Sebaldian simplicity and understatement' Guardian 'Sensational and
gripping . . . shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of
our time' Judges of the Costa Book of the Year 2018
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