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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Were your Yorkshire ancestors brewers or businessmen, cutlers or miners? Some members of your family are probably listed somewhere by the occupation they pursued. There are many sources of published information on Yorkshire occupations - biographical dictionaries, guides to archives, histories of particular occupations, etc., etc. This new guide lists hundreds of potential sources of information (...More Info
Lists of names are vital sources of information for genealogists, and many are identified in this volume. For Yorkshire, numerous transcripts and indexes of the census, and of tax lists are available; also many trade directories (some of which have been published on fiche etc). This volume tells you what is available, and also enables you to locate a variety of other name lists (FFHS, 2000).
Numerous histories of the county, and of particular parishes, may be identified by using this volume, which indicates publications includin original sources, pedigrees, etc. It also includes details of guides to the wide variety of archive repositories and libraries in the county, and lists the many Yorkshire historical and genealogical journals available. The final two sections deal with place-na...More Info
Has your family history already been written? This volume lists innumerable family histories and pedigrees from Yorkshire. Also listed are collections of pedigrees, diaries, letters, etc., works on heraldry, biographical dictionaries, etc. (FFHS, 2000).
This is Volume One, The West Riding of Yorkshire, containing a wealth of information about each and every place in the West Riding, with alphabetical lists of the residents and tradespeople there