Pen Sword Family History imprint: 46 books
Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and varied historical and personal information they contain. His is the first thoroughgoing survey of these resources to be published...
Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with...
Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Every family historian has child ancestors, and childhood experiences and records are an essential aspect of research into a past life. That is why Sue Wilkes's detailed and accessible handbook is such a useful guide for anyone who is trying to find out about the early years of their forbears. In...
Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors
A Guide For Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This fully revised second edition of Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the entire process of research....
Jewish Lives
Britain 1750–1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
“Offers a guide to family historians who want to reconstruct their family trees. Invaluable . . . to other Jews in search of their roots” (Jewish Renaissance).
Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical...
by Sue Wilkes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
For readers with family ties to Manchester and Salford, and researchers delving into the rich history of these cities, this informative, accessible guide will be essential reading and a fascinating source of reference.
Sue Wilkes outlines the social and family history of the region in a series...
Tracing Your Georgian Ancestors 1714–1837
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Georgian period – 1714 to 1837 – was a key stage in our modern history so some understanding of it is essential for family historians who want to push their research back into the eighteenth century and beyond, and John Wintrip's handbook is an invaluable introduction to it. In a sequence...
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs
A Complete Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history research. Using over 150 old photographs as examples, she shows how such images can give a direct insight into the past...
by Mary Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Whether you are interested in the career of an individual service woman or just want to know more about the part played by service women in a particular war or campaign, this is the book for you. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of service women, Mary Ingham explains which records survive,...
Tracing Your Twentieth-Century Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The recent past is so often neglected when people research their family history, yet it can be one of the most rewarding periods to explore, and so much fascinating evidence is available. The rush of events over the last century and the rapid changes that have taken place in every aspect of life have...
Tracing Your British and Irish Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Finding a way into the sources for British and Irish family history can be a daunting task if you live overseas and have little knowledge of the archives you can go to and the way in which they can be used. That is why this introductory book will be so valuable for anyone who is trying to trace their...
Tracing Your Church of England Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
In his latest handbook on the records of the major Christian religions, Stuart Raymond focuses on the Church of England. He identifies the available sources, comments on their strengths and weaknesses and explains how to make the best use of them. The history of the Church of England is covered, from...
Tracing Your Trade & Craftsman Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman – a butcher, baker or candlestick maker – somewhere in our ancestry, and Adèle Emm's handbook is the perfect guide to finding out about them – about their lives, their work and the world they lived in. She introduces the many trades and crafts,...
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors
A Guide to Research Methods for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century and are finding it difficult to go further. John Wintrip guides readers through all the steps they can take in order to delve even more deeply into the past.
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