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Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors (Paperback)
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Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors (Paperback)
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List price R480
Loot Price R395
Discovery Miles 3 950
You Save R85 (18%)
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Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman - a butcher, baker
or candlestick maker - somewhere in our ancestry, and Adele Emm's
handbook is the perfect guide to finding out about them - about
their lives, their work and the world they lived in. She introduces
the many trades and crafts, looks at their practices and long
traditions, and identifies and explains the many sources you can go
to in order to discover more about them and their families.
Chapters cover the guilds, the merchants, shopkeepers, builders,
smiths and metalworkers, cordwainers and shoemakers, tailors and
dressmakers, coopers, wheelwrights and carriage-makers, and a long
list of other trades and crafts. The training and apprenticeships
of individuals who worked in these trades and crafts are described,
as are their skills and working conditions and the genealogical
resources that preserve their history and give an insight into
their lives. A chapter covers the general sources that researchers
can turn to - the National Archives, the census, newspapers, wills,
and websites - and gives advice on how to use them.Adele Emm's
introduction will be fascinating reading for anyone who is
researching the social or family history of trades and crafts.
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