Society of Genealogists

A guide to sources for family historians

A guide to sources for family historians

A Guide to Sources for Family Historians

A guide to coalminer sources for family historians,

A guide to British Army sources for family historians

This publication gives an overview of the legal profession in England and Wales and it's records. Chapters include lawyers and their societies, institutions and records, published records of lawyers, records of the courts and much more. There is also a section on lawyers in Scotland, Ireland and English lawyers overseas.

A5, 215 pages, ISBN: 978-1-903462-94-2

in England and Wales. How can I find out more about them?

A guide to sources for family historians

How can I find more out about them?

A guide to understanding records about railway people

This comprehensive guide to tracing Jewish ancestors in the UK also includes a chapter on reseaching Jewish ancestry abroad.

A5, 61 pages, ISBN: 978-903462-63-8

All at sea finding the birth, death or even marriage of one of your ancestors? Well perhaps the event did actually take place at sea. This book will help guide you through the myth and fact of what records there are to help you discover the truth. A5, 180 pages, ISBN: 978-1-903462-82-9

A comprehensive guide to Mormon records in Britain and the United States. Ian Waller charts the history of British Mormons and their journeys to North America, providing readers with carefully woven history and genealogy research guide.

Beginning with a general history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the book covers migration and colonisation, and using microfilms.

Author: Ian Waller

Published: 2012

A guide to sources for family historians

This comprehensive guide, in colour and illustrated with around 220 images, is essential reading for anyone researching their family pictures. This is the first book to cover inherited artworks - paintings and drawings- silhouettes and photographs, spanning the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. The author is a professional dress historian, with over 20 years experience of dating and analyzing family pictures. A5, 368 pages, ISBN: 978-1-907199-04-2

A guide to Thames Watermen and lighterme ancestors sources for family historians

A guide to sources for family historians

A guide to London sources for family historians

This book gives guidance in tracing ancestors who served in the Royal Marines. The book outlines the records available and where to find them and includes a chapter on the history of the service.

A5, 110 pages, ISBN:978-1-903462-96-6

A guide to sources for family historians

This invaluable booklet sets out the basic data needed by genealogists and family historians to handle the various problems that can arise with dates and calendars.

The seventh edition of this valuable book lists the cemeteries and crematoria of London with their addresses, including websites where available, and the location and date range of their burial registers.

When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, over half her subjects were reliant on agriculture for their livelihoods, despite the Industrial revolution making Britain one of the most prominent industrial societies in the world. It is unsurprising, then, that most of us have an ag lab somewhere in our family tree. But how can we learn more about them and the lives that they led? In this highly-anticipated, much-expanded second edition of his My Ancestor was an Agricultural Labourer book, genealogist...

A guide to sources for illegitimacy in England and Wales

A guide to sources for family historians

For family historians who have ancestors who migrated from Britain to the area once known as the British West Indies. John Titford’s guide aims to help you to find and use the records held in Britain and those held in the territories themselves.

Chapters are organised territory by territory. Included are Guyana (formerly British Guiana) and Belize (formerly British Honduras), because the author regarded them as being part of the Caribbean region in the broadest sense. Bermuda is also included, despite being in the Atlantic rather than the Caribbean. The author notes that for administrative purposes, the Colonial Office in London considered it to be part of the West Indies.

Author: John Titford FSG.

Published: 2011

A guide to sources for family historians

A guide to Gypsy sources for family historians

An updated version of this publication, listing London Schools, their addresses, dates of foundation, where and what period their records cover plus London maps.

There is also a list of repositories which hold London School records, along with their addresses.

The title says it all! This book is a must for anyone studying old documents 1550-1650.