Genealogy Books Products

Welcomed worldwide on its first publication, this practical and lively guide for the amateur genealogist has now been fully revised and updated. The new material includes a section on medieval genealogy which targets the increasing numbers of family historians who have reached back as far as the sixteenth century and wish to go further. Heraldry is introduced for the first time. There is ...

Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
Written By: Colin D. Rogers

Since 1194 it has been the duty of coroners to investigate the circumstances of unnatural, sudden, or suspicious deaths, and of deaths in prison. Their records are extensive, and, until now, notoriously difficult to track down. This little guidebook is actually the first effort ever made to itemize all coroners' records in England and Wales now in public repositories, and it has made a ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Colin Rogers

Published annually since 1832, electoral registers list the names and addresses of everyone entitled to vote, noting the qualifications which brought each voter onto the register, such as current residence or ownership of property. During most of the 19th century the printed registers were arranged in alphabetical order by constituency, while later they were arranged in street order by ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub Co
Written By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Colin Rogers

Manufacturer: Federation of Family History Societies (Publicatio
Written By: J.S.W. Gibson, Colin Rogers

Manufacturer: Manchester Univ Pr
Written By: Colin Darlington Rogers

Manufacturer: PRO Publications
Written By: Roger Kershaw, Mark Pearsall, Foreward by Professor Colin Holmes, Kershaw Roger, Pearsall Mark

Manufacturer: Manchester Univ Pr
Written By: Colin D. Rogers

Until 1872, when the secret ballot was introduced, voting was a public matter, and a record of just how people voted was frequently published. Going back to the 1690s, poll books list the names and parishes of the voters, often noting their occupations and voting qualifications, with their choice of candidate. Genealogists find these poll books indispensable because they identify ...

Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub Co
Written By: Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson, Colin D. Rogers

Manufacturer: Federation of Family History Societies (Publicatio
Written By: J.S.W. Gibson, Colin Rogers

Manufacturer: Manchester Univ Pr
Written By: Colin D. Rogers, John Henry Smith