Tracking down your ancestors: discover the story behind your ancestors and bring your family history to life

Contents......Page 6
Abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
1 Getting Started......Page 20
What do you know?......Page 22
Who do you know?......Page 27
One name studies......Page 29
Getting started online......Page 32
Start up guidelines......Page 36
Surnames......Page 42
FamilySearch.com......Page 48
GEDCOM......Page 50
Ancestry.com......Page 56
Mailing lists......Page 67
Newsgroups......Page 74
Finding and using professionals......Page 75
Familia......Page 76
Family history resources online......Page 77
Cyndi\'s Resources......Page 80
Exploring deeper and wider......Page 97
4 Tearless Transcribing......Page 99
Making assumptions......Page 103
Fields......Page 104
Lifetime Logic......Page 107
Vital information......Page 108
Civil birth, death and marriage records......Page 115
5 Organised Support......Page 119
Society of Genealogists (SoG)......Page 120
Federation of Family History Societies......Page 123
Guild of One Name Studies (GOONS)......Page 130
6 Vital Public Records......Page 133
Purposes and processes......Page 134
Vital statistics......Page 138
Census returns......Page 141
Exploring the catalogue......Page 142
7 Interpreting Old Records......Page 153
Knowing what\'s important......Page 154
Having the right attitude......Page 157
Comparison of archives......Page 158
Conventions and caveats......Page 161
Mediaeval public records......Page 168
8 Getting to Know Your Ancestors......Page 171
Name searches......Page 173
Place searches......Page 174
Inheritance records......Page 175
Immigrants to Britain......Page 181
Emigrants and Britons abroad......Page 183
The Armed Forces......Page 187
Prisoners and criminals......Page 190
Coroners\' inquests......Page 192
The established church......Page 193
Nonconformists......Page 194
Roman Catholics......Page 195
Jews......Page 196
Land ownership......Page 197
Tax......Page 198
Welsh genealogy......Page 199
Scottish genealogy......Page 200
Irish genealogy......Page 201
1 Instant Information: Public Record Office leaflets and document archives......Page 204
2 Help and support: local family history societies......Page 210
3 Genealogy and family history bibliography......Page 229
4 Useful websites and addresses......Page 237
5 Glossary of terms......Page 242
6 Computers in Genealogy: Society of Genealogists quarterly magazine articles and reviews in back numbers 1997–1999......Page 265
E......Page 270
L......Page 271
S......Page 272
W......Page 273