An introduction to the tools and processes of researching your past. This book will also help take your research to the level beyond simple facts of birth, marriage and death, with chapters on occupation, migration and military service. By Karen Foy. Paperback with 223 pages... More Info
Birth, Marriage and Death Records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them. It explains the original motives for registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in understanding the documentation. They recount the history... More Info
Product Code: BK6419
Simon Fowler outlines the course of the fighting around the city and he introduces the many historical resources that you can use to explore the history for yourself. *A practical guide to researching soldiers who served at Ypres during the First World War *Concise account of the three principal Ypres battles, including Passchendaele *Identifies and explains the key sources including The National Archives, Imperial War Museum and Commonwealth War Graves Commission *Recommends useful websit... More Info
Product Code: BK6472
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Transcriptions and indexes. September 2012 An Index of over 247.000 burials – 231,480 from Metropolitan Surrey and 15,522 from Rural Surrey. The following parishes are included: METROPOLITAN SURREY: Battersea Christ Church 1862-1866, (263); Battersea St Mary 1778-1865, (9,266); Bermondsey St James 1829-1854, 1862-1879, (7,595); Bermondsey St Mary Magdalen 1674...More Info
A book of splendid illustrations of the working men and women of Yorkshire in 1813 - 1814. The Author and Artist, George Walker, describes in his introduction - "most of the humble individuals here depicted in their simple and sometimes squalid garb" Many of the 41 hand-coloured aquatint engravings have become very famous in recent times, held to be accurate representations of the working people o...More Info
Invasions, battles, revolts, conspiracies and military achievements, recorded in the Annals of Yorkshire.
Catalogue of an exhibition held in 2003 at Rossler Museum, Untermunkheim, Edited by Karl-Heinz Wuestner. Produced to accompany a German museum exhibition of German painted furniture with special emphasis on folk art showing soldiers and other military subjects. Detailed historical articles by various experts. In German.
This book published in 1897 traces the history of the regiment from its earliest origins to 1896. Its 400+ pages are divided into chronological sections that give a great deal of information as to the location of the company and the day to day activities. There are a number of illustrations and the appendix gives lists of various ranks and officers. If you had an ancestor in the Devon Regiment, or...More Info