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Leading family historian David Hey offers practical guidance on how to trace family origins through the basics of research- how to get started, where to find records, and how to decipher early styles of handwriting. He also uses social history to suggest where to begin this search: the networks of kinship and inheritance, and the stability or mobility of certain families. Containing more that a hundred black and-and-white illustrations showing family groups, houses, monuments, archive records, and family trees, this book is essential reading for those interested in tracing their lineage. 246 pp; index and select bibliography; pbk