Discover Your Roots : 52 Brilliant Ideas for Exploring Your Heritage

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blake, Paul.

Contributor:

Loughran, Maggie.

Series:

52 Brilliant Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genealogy.

Local history.

Local Subjects:

Genealogy.

Local history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Infinite Ideas, 2006.

Summary:

Finding out about your ancestors and family history is now easier than ever. You can search on the internet, or employ a professional genealogist to do the digging for you, but doing it yourself is often the most rewarding and fascinating method. This however can still be a confusing and complicated business, so where is the best place to start? In Discover your roots genealogists Maggie Loughran and Paul Blake reveal 52 inspiring ideas to help you on the road to discovery.

Contents:

Front cover; Copyright; Table of contents; Brilliant features; Introduction; 1. What's in a name?; 2. Who told you that?; 3. Show and tell; 4. Is there anybody out there?; 5. Truth and lies; 6. Join the club; 7. Hatches, matches and despatches; 8. Let no man put asunder; 9. All the news that's fit to print; 10. Did he fall or was he pushed?; 11. Writ in stone; 12. Reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic; 13. The sense of the census; 14. Location, location, location; 15. Votes and voters; 16. Taxing the community; 17. How does the land lie?; 18. Become a where wolf; 19. Files, formats and family trees

20. Fancy a date?21. On the move; 22. Open the doors and see the people; 23. Where there's a will; 24. Inghamites, Swedenborgians, Muddletonians and others; 25. Daddy, what did you do in the war?; 26. For king and country; 27. Apprenticeship and apprentices; 28. Trades and occupations; 29. Professions and professionals; 30. Get it off your chest; 31. Arms and the man; 32. Manors maketh man; 33. Crime and punishment; 34. Let's get out of here; 35. Aliens in the family; 36. Helical help; 37. Digitise your data; 38. Publishing on the web; 39. Grave responsibilities; 40. Creative scrapbooking

41. The truly obsessed42. The Lloyd George Domesday; 43. The National Farm Survey; 44. Bricks and mortar; 45. Plots and plans; 46. Families in focus; 47. Places in perspective; 48. A rue with a view; 49. Cameras are not just for the holidays!; 50. Diversify - doing your own thing; 51. Get Googling; 52. How to avoid becoming an anorak; The end...; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

1-281-37154-8

9786611371548

1-907518-88-6

OCLC:

642661031