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Smart Family History

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Price:

$22.00

SKU:

7154

Product Description

Book

The National Archives' new, intermediate-level guide full of time-saving tips and proven techniques to help you discover even more

This is a unique concise guide for family historians who have looked at basic sources and are impatient to find out more. It combines clear, helpful advice on interpreting the census, civil registration and other key records with suggestions on what to do next and how to use existing findings to best effect. Renowned for his talk 'I'm stuck: where do I go from here?', expert Geoff Swinfield offers a wealth of smart ideas to help you save time, avoid common pitfalls and progress your research more efficiently. He gives advice on each stage of your ancestor's life, offering new directions and approaches through a wide range of websites and indexes, directories and specialist sources. Affordable, practical and easy-to-use, this will enable any genealogist to get the very best from their research.

Contents:

Introduction

A Start in Life: birth and baptism, adoption, foundlings, the Ripple Method

Out of School: education and training

Settling Down: marriage, nonconformity, localization and naming patterns

Serving Your Country: specialist military records and indexes

Making it Legal: records of court, land and property

A Matter of Status: professional indexes/directories, Who's Who, heraldry

Passing Away: death and burial, obituaries, probate

Addresses, websites, books and magazines

Author:

Dr Geoff Swinfield began his studies in genealogy in 1979 at the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies (IHGS). Since then he has worked as a professional researcher, and has lectured widely on the subject at the Society of Genealogists, IHGS, and London's Birkbeck College, as well as researching celebrity genealogies for the national press.