by Alan Stewart Scottish ancestry is easy to trace on the Internet, because Scotland is leading the world in making its family history records available on-line. So now, wherever you live, it is easy to grow a Scottish family tree! All the main records are already on-line: births, marriages and deaths (from 1855), old parish registers (some back as far as 1553), wills and inventories (from 1500) and ten-yearly census returns (1841-1901). In the near future, church, land, poor relief, taxa More Info
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Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Batley, Pontefract, Keighley, Bingley, Saddleworth, Todmorden, Skipton, Otley, Holmfirth and the parishes and villages in and near to these Woollen and Worsted manufacturing districts of the West Riding of Yorkshire. An amazing number of names, addresses and historical information in this book of almost 1,600 pages. Useful for locating p...More Info
Directory of Private Residents and Tradespeople in every town and village in the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire and, for major towns, i.e. York, Hull and Middlesbrough, there is a Street Index. Includes a description of every place in the two Ridings with lists of the Wapentakes and Poor Law Unions of each and, under each parish, the Parliamentary Division of the Riding is given as well as th...More Info
A Directory of Private Residents and Tradespeople in every town and village in the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire and, for the major towns, i.e. York, Hull and Middlesbrough, there is a Street Index. The contents include a description of every place in the two Ridings. There are listings for Private Residents, Trades & Professional and, for the larger towns, a street index. Almost 2,000 pages...More Info
The Visitation of Yorkshire. Made in the years 1584/5, by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald. Also the subsequent visitation made in 1612 by Richard St. George, Norroy King of Arms. With several additional pedigrees and indexes. The book on this CD is machine searchable
Thomas Langdale's work of 1822. Where to find places in Yorkshire's three Ridings. An alphabetical listing of all the towns, villages, hamlets, gentlemens' seats, &c., giving distances to market or post towns, brief histories of notable antiquities, and the names of magistrates,lieutenants and other officers of the County.