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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First published in 1899. By Arthur H. Norway, with illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Hugh Thomson. Most travellers through Yorkshire see it from the road. Here we travel into Yorkshire by the Great North Road and wander through the 19th century villages of three Ridings. The book on this CD is machine searchable.
The author, Walter White, explored the whole of Yorkshire, taking note of all he saw and conversations with some of the people he met along the way. Descriptions of the facilities provided for travellers and the practices of the licensed victuallers, details of manufacture and the working people, interspersed with historical notes. From remote hills and vales to the woollen mills and ironstone min...More Info
All Yorkshire on one CD - Gives Landowners Names and Addresses. 553 North Riding Parishes, 384 East Riding Parishes and 689 West Riding Parishes. Total 1626 Yorkshire Parishes
Stories from around Yorkshire, with contour map, geology map, British & Roman Yorkshire map and maps showing river valleys. By F D King. The book on this CD is machine searchable.
Kelly's 1925 Directory of the North & East Ridings of Yorkshire. Filling in the gaps between the 1901 census and living memory, this directory can help. Includes History, Topography, Street Directory, Alphabetical Directory, Trades Directory and Official Information. There are listings for Private Residents, Trades & Professional and, for the larger towns, i.e. York & Hull, there is a street index...More Info