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Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors

The experience of civilian internees and British prisoners of war in German and Turkish hands during the First World War is one of the least well-known – and least researched – asp ...


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Tracing Your Servant Ancestors

While there are popular and academic books on servants and domestic service, as well as television dramas and documentaries, little attention has been paid to the sources family hi ...


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Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors

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 th ...


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Tracing Your West Country Ancestors

This book is an essential handbook for those researching their ancestry in the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and the city of Bristol. It begins with an introduction to t ...


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Women in War

The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of perceptive, thought-provoking essays. By looking at the wide ran ...


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Tracing Your Black Country Ancestors

The Black Country in the West Midlands is an important site for family historians. Many researchers, seeking to trace their ancestry back through the generations, will find their t ...


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Air Force Lives

What was it like to serve as an airman in the Second World War, as a pilot, a bomb aimer, or aerial gunner, or as a trainee pilot in 1913, a Zeppelin chaser during the First World ...


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Birth, Marriage and Death Records

Birth, marriage and death records are an essential resource for family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative introduction to them. It explains the original motives for ...


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Broadmoor Revealed

Glimpse what went on behind the walls of England's first Criminal Lunatic Asylum!Mark Stevens reveals what life was like for the criminally insane over one hundred years ago. From ...


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Jewish Lives

Jewish Lives presents the life-stories of ten individual Jews who immigrated to Britain between 1750 and 1950, based on actual genealogical research. Their life-stories, enriched b ...


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Napoleonic Lives

Two hundred years ago the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars convulsed the whole of Europe. These were key events in the history of the continent, and for Britain, and they are a fa ...


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Second World War Lives

The Second World War was a momentous event in twentieth-century history and it is a fascinating period for family historians to explore. Numerous records are available to researche ...


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Sodasta ja rakkaudesta

"Vinhasti räiskyy sodan pauhina. Sen aiheuttavat hirmuiset äänet monien vekottimien syytäessä kuivaa muonaa puolin ja toisin. Olemme hyökkäämässä tien suunnassa, tehtävänä ottaa yh ...


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Tracing Your Ancestors' Parish Records

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 var ...


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Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Gallipoli Campaign

Do you have an ancestor who served in the Gallipoli campaign in the First World War? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefields in Turkey and the monuments that commemor ...


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Tracing your Great War Ancestors: Ypres

Do you have an ancestor who served at Ypres in the First World War, during the four years in which the city was in the front line? Perhaps you have thought of visiting the battlefi ...


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Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors

This fully revised second edition of Ian Maxwell’s Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to Scotland’s long, complex and fascinating story. It is ...


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Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors

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 histo ...


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Writing your Family History

Gill Blanchard's practical step-by-step guide to writing a family history is designed for anyone who wants to bring their ancestors' stories to life. She looks at ways of overcomin ...


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Tracing Your Merchant Navy Ancestors

What was a merchant seaman’s life like in the past, what experiences would he have had, what were the ships like that he sailed in, and what risks did he run? Was he shipwrecked, r ...


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Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors

This fully revised second edition of Rachel Bellerby’s best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to find out about your Yorkshire ancestors. As well as tracing when your ...


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Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census

The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian ...


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Tracing Your Ancestors' Childhood

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 access ...


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Tracing Your Ancestors Through Family Photographs

Jayne Shrimpton's complete guide to dating, analysing and understanding family photographs is essential reading and reference for anyone undertaking genealogical and local history ...


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Tracing your Family History on the Internet

This fully revised second edition of Chris Paton's best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to make effective use of the internet in your family history research. Every ...