Solving Genealogy Problems: How to Break Down 'brick Walls' and Build Your Family
Author(s): Dr Graeme Davis
'Brick walls' occur everywhere and all the time in genealogy research. Solving Genealogy Problems will help you make real progress through difficult areas and dead ends. With this book you can take your British Isles family tree back further. Solving Genealogy Problems will: - Help you find new records, including unusual ones genealogists often don't know about; and make the best use of them when you do find them. - Suggest new ideas for looking at old problems. - Give additional ideas on using the census - then more ideas on using census substitutes when the census doesn't have the answers. - Suggest ways of finding elusive births, marriages and deaths - and then of making progress anyway, even when you absolutely cannot find them. This book covers all periods of British Isles genealogy. The new frontiers of genealogy are considered for the hope they give on even the most intractable research block, and the possibility they allow of building even the most difficult of family trees.
General Information
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- : How To Books Ltd
- : How To Books Ltd
- : 01 October 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Dr Graeme Davis
- : Paperback
- : 256
More About The Product
A university lecturer and academic researcher, Dr Graeme Davis is also a genealogist with extensive experience of family tree research. In addition to numerous academic publications in history and philology, his genealogical books include Your Family Tree Online and Research Your Surname and Your Family Tree.
1. RECOGNISING BRICK WALLS; 2. FRAMING THE QUESTIONS; 3. CHECKING FOR ERRORS; 4. WORKING WITH ORIGINALS; 5. ADVANCED BMD TOOLS; 6. CENSUS SOLUTIONS; 7. PARISH REGISTER PROBLEMS; 8. IRELAND - PROBLEM AND INSPIRATION; 9. PARISH REGISTERS AFTER 1837; 10. NEWSPAPERS, WILLS AND WITNESSES; 11. ALTERNATIVES TO THE CENSUS; 12. OCCUPATIONAL ANSWERS: MILITARY, MARINERS, CLERGY, LAWYERS AND DOCTORS; 13. PRINTED SOURCES; 14. MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS; 15. NATIONAL ARCHIVES; 16. CLUSTER GENEALOGY,COLLATERAL LINES AND COMMUNITIES; 17. FINDING COLLATERAL DESCENDANTS; 18. ONE NAME STUDIES AND SURNAME ORIGINS; 19. DNA STUDIES AND SURNAME ORIGINS; 20. GENEALOGY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE; 21. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AND THE GENEALOGIST; 22. COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS FOR THE GENEALOGIST.
