Tracing your Yorkshire Ancestors on the Internet

A Guide For Family Historians

Rachel Bellerby

• Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781399051637
• Year: 2024

A comprehensive guide to finding Yorkshire ancestors online, featuring updated tips and resources for effective research. Tracing your Yorkshire ancestors using the internet has never been easier, with literally millions of records available to explore. But with so much material available, it can be difficult to know how to get started and what records to use. Rachel Bellerby's brand new guide is a follow-up to the best-selling Tracing Your Yorkshire Ancestors and is packed with up-to-date information on finding your Yorkshire forebears online. From the basics of birth, marriage and death, through migration and education, and looking at the tough times such as poverty and ill health, Rachel Bellerby guides us through the thousands of websites available, with tips and advice from family history professionals around Yorkshire. The themed chapters make it easy to decide what information you would like to find out and the best websites to use. With step-by-step guidance on smart searching and time saving tips, this guide has everything you need to enjoy the journey of tracing your Yorkshire ancestors on the internet, wherever in the world you live.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Glossary
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 What’s Held Where?
• Chapter 2 Vital Records for Birth, Marriage and Death
• Chapter 3 Home Life: The Census and House History
• Chapter 4 Education and Occupations
• Chapter 5 Tough Times: Ill Health, Poverty and Crime
• Chapter 6 Leisure and Religion
• Chapter 7 Tracing Your Female Ancestors
• Chapter 8 Emigration, Immigration and ‘Strays’
• Chapter 9 Working with Others: Societies, Social Networking and Volunteering
• Chapter 10 Adding Colour to Your Research
• Acknowledgements