Locating Your Roots
Title | Locating Your Roots PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Law Hatcher |
Publisher | Betterway Books |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2003-03-04 |
Genre | Reference |
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Accompanied by step-by-step instructions, a comprehensive guide shows readers how to identify, locate, and interpret land records in order to trace their early ancestors.
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors
Title | Tracing Your Irish Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | John Grenham |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Company |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 2010-11 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780806320465 |
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors
Title | Tracing Your Irish Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | John Grenham |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780806317687 |
Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records
Title | Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart A. Raymond |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2016-09-30 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1473879094 |
A detailed handbook to the English and Welsh Quarter Sessions records, their background, and how they can be used by genealogists and historians. For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and other county officials kept are invaluable sources for local and family historians, and Stuart Raymond's handbook is the first in-depth guide to them. He shows how and why they were created, what information they contain, and how they can be accessed and used. Justices of the Peace met regularly in Quarter Sessions, judging minor criminal matters, licensing alehouses, paying pensions to maimed soldiers, overseeing roads and bridges, and running gaols and hospitals. They supervised the work of parish constables, highway surveyors, poor law overseers, and other officers. And they kept extensive records of their work, which are invaluable to researchers today. As Stuart Raymond explains, the lord lieutenant, the sheriff, the assize judges, the clerk of the peace, and the coroner, together with a variety of subordinate officials, also played important roles in county government. Most of them left records that give us detailed insights into our ancestors’ lives. The wide range of surviving county records deserve to be better known and more widely used, and Stuart Raymond’s book is a fascinating introduction to them. Praise for Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records “This is invaluable stuff: while other books may mention the records, this volume provides a useful understanding of the processes and public philosophies that led to them in the first place. There are plenty of references for further reading, too. . . . An excellent textbook exploring the mechanics of local record-keeping.” —Your Family History (UK) “This great introduction to county records will soon have you chomping at the bit to head to your nearest archive to begin exploring beyond the records available online. Well-known family and local historian (and Family Tree contributor) Stuart A. Raymond provides a concise and easy guide to the rich seam of records you can expect to find (and those you can't), going back 500 years to when Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of local government for our ancestors. There’s a wealth of information to get your teeth into.” —Family Tree (UK)
A Guide to Tracing Your Limerick Ancestors
Title | A Guide to Tracing Your Limerick Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Franklin |
Publisher | Flyleaf Press |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780953997442 |
These invaluable guides include church records, civil and land records, censuses, newspapers, commercial directories, school records and others, where they can be accessed, and how they can be used to best effect.
Our Quaker Ancestors
Title | Our Quaker Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen T. Berry |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780806311906 |
Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records
Title | Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Paton |
Publisher | Pen and Sword Family History |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2021-11-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781526780218 |
The history of Ireland is one that was long dominated by the question of land ownership, with complex and often distressing tales over the centuries of dispossession and colonisation, religious tensions, absentee landlordism, subsistence farming, and considerably more to sadden the heart. Yet with the destruction of much of Ireland's historic record during the Irish Civil War, and with the discriminatory Penal Laws in place in earlier times, it is often within land records that we can find evidence of our ancestors' existence, in some cases the only evidence, where the relevant vital records for an area may never have been kept or may not have survived. In Tracing Your Irish Ancestors Through Land Records, genealogist and best-selling author Chris Paton explores how the surviving records can help with our ancestral research, but also tell the stories of the communities from within which our ancestors emerged. He explores the often controversial history of ownership of land across the island, the rights granted to those who held estates and the plights of the dispossessed, and identifies the various surviving records which can help to tease out the stories of many of Ireland's forgotten generations. Along the way Chris Paton identifies the various ways to access the records, whether in Ireland's many archives, local and national, and increasingly through a variety of online platforms.