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Gill Blanchard's practical and informative handbook will help you
to trace your ancestors in the traditional counties of East Anglia
Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex and it will give you an
insight into their lives. As well as guiding the researcher to
historical records held in all the relevant archives, she explores
the wealth of other resources that add the 'flesh to the bones' of
our ancestors' lives. She describes how fascinating information can
be discovered about the places they lived in and the important
historical events they lived through, and she traces the life
stories of notable people from all backgrounds who shaped the
regions development over the centuries. Her account highlights the
diversity of this part of England but also focuses on its common
features and strong sense of identity. It introduces a wide array
of research resources that will be revealing for readers who want
to find out about their ancestors who lived here.
Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house - of
their home - needs to read this compact, practical handbook.
Whether you live in a manor house or on a planned estate, in a
labourer's cottage, a tied house, a Victorian terrace, a
twentieth-century council house or a converted warehouse - this is
the book for you. In a series of concise, information-filled
chapters, Gill Blanchard shows you how to trace the history of your
house or flat, how to gain an insight into the lives of the people
who lived in it before you, and how to fit it into the wider
history of your neighbourhood. A wealth of historical evidence is
available in libraries, archives and record offices, in books and
online, and this is the ideal introduction to it. Gill Blanchard
explores these resources in depth, explains their significance and
directs the researcher to the most relevant, and revealing, aspects
of them. She makes the research process understandable, accessible
and fun, and in the process she demystifies the sometimes obscure
language and layout of the documents that researchers will come up
against.
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