Pen Sword Family History imprint: 46 books
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In vivid detail it describes the rise of...
Writing your Family History
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gill Blanchard's practical step-by-step guide to writing a family history is designed for anyone who wants to bring their ancestors' stories to life. She looks at ways of overcoming the particular problems family historians face when writing a family history -- how to deal with gaps in knowledge,...
Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian in mind, and it is packed with advice on how to explore and get the most from the census records. As well as describing...
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Local History Records
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Family history should reveal more than facts and dates, lists of names and places – it should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew – and research into local history records is one of the most rewarding ways of gaining this kind of insight into their...
by Paton, Chris
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
The internet is revolutionizing family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace become available. Never before has it been so easy to research family history and to gain a better understanding of...
Tracing your Family History on the Internet
A Guide for Family Historians- Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
This fully revised second edition of Chris Paton's best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to make effective use of the internet in your family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace...
Tracing History Through Title Deeds
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Property title deeds are perhaps the most numerous sources of historical evidence but also one of the most neglected. While the information any one deed contains can often be reduced to a few lines, it can be of critical importance for family and local historians. Nat Alcock's handbook aims to help...
The Family History Web Directory
The Genealogical Websites You Can't Do Without
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Jonathan Scott's Family History Web Directory is an information-packed reference guide that distils the best of the internet into one easy-to-use format. Themed sections cover different topics, from 'getting started' to specific occupations, and there is an index reproducing all the websites in A-Z...
Tracing Your Kent Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Genealogically and historically, Kent is an important maritime county which has played a prime defensive role in English history. It is large and diverse and replete with great houses, castles and other family homes, many with their own archives. It is also a fascinating area of research for family...
A Dictionary of Family History
The Genealogists' ABC
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
An A-to-Z genealogy reference for those who want to research their family trees.
Part encyclopedia, part dictionary, part almanac, this is a practical, easy-to-use reference, filled with thousands of fact-filled A-to-Z entries. You’ll find:
*definitions of genealogy terms
*timelines
*details...
Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their trail leads through it. And yet, despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy and the importance of the region in so many...
Tracing Your Edinburgh Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local historians
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Edinburgh has been the capital of Scotland for the last 500 years and more. The 'Athens of the North' is the centre of Scottish banking, medicine, architecture, law and publishing. It is the home of Scotland's national museums and the location of the Queen's official residence in Scotland and of the...
Birth, Marriage and Death Records
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
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...
Tracing Your Leeds Ancestors
A Guide for Family & Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Explore the lives of your ancestors in the 'city of 1,000 trades' in this family and local history guide, dedicated to the city of Leeds. Learn how to find out more about the streets where your ancestors lived, where they would have gone to school and church and chapel, how they'd have spent their...