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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records (Paperback)
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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 200
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Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of
names and places - it should bring ancestors alive in the context
of their times and the surroundings they knew - and research into
local history records is one of the most rewarding ways of gaining
this kind of insight into their world. That is why Jonathan Oates's
detailed introduction to these records is such a useful tool for
anyone who is trying to piece together a portrait of family members
from the past. In a series of concise and informative chapters he
looks at the origins and importance of local history from the
sixteenth century onwards and at the principal archives - national
and local, those kept by government, councils, boroughs, museums,
parishes, schools and clubs. He also explains how books,
photographs and other illustrations, newspapers, maps, directories,
and a range of other resources can be accessed and interpreted and
how they can help to fill a gap in your knowledge.As well as
describing how these records were compiled, he highlights their
limitations and the possible pitfalls of using them, and he
suggests how they can be combined to build up a picture of an
individual, a family and the place and time in which they lived.
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