Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors
eBook - ePub

Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors

A Guide For Family Historians

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors

A Guide For Family Historians

About this book

Few previous publications have focused on Welsh family history, and none have provided a comprehensive guide to the genealogical information available and where to find it. That is why the publication of Beryl Evans's new Welsh family history handbook is such a significant event in the field. Her detailed, accessible, authoritative guide will be essential reading and reference for anyone who is eager to research ancestors from Wales. She describes the key archival sources and shows how the development of new technology, the internet in particular, has made them so much easier to explore. Drawing on her long experience of family history work, she gives clear practical advice on how to start a research project, and she sketches in the outlines of Welsh history, Welsh surnames and place-names and the Welsh language. But the main body of her book is devoted to identifying the variety of sources researchers can consult the archive repositories, including The National Library of Wales, civil records of all kinds, the census, parish registers, wills, the records of churches, chapels, schools, businesses, tax offices and courts, and the wide range of printed records. Beryl Evans's handbook will be a basic text for researchers of Welsh descent and for anyone who is keen to learn about Welsh history

Information

Publisher
Pen & Sword Family History
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9781473861954
Print ISBN
9781848843592
Subtopic
British History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Chapter 1: Starting Your Research
  9. Chapter 2: The Welsh
  10. Chapter 3: Archives, Libraries and Family History Societies
  11. Chapter 4: Civil Registration
  12. Chapter 5: Census Records
  13. Chapter 6: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials
  14. Chapter 7: Nonconformity
  15. Chapter 8: Parish Chest Records
  16. Chapter 9: Wills and Other Probate Records
  17. Chapter 10: Maps
  18. Chapter 11: Newspapers
  19. Chapter 12: The Poor Law after 1834
  20. Chapter 13: Education
  21. Chapter 14: Estate and Manorial Records
  22. Chapter 15: The Court of Great Sessions
  23. Chapter 16: Trade and Industry
  24. Chapter 17: Emigration
  25. Chapter 18: Military Records
  26. Chapter 19: Land Tax Assessment Records
  27. Chapter 20: Other Sources
  28. Appendices

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