Family History Companion: The Knowledge You Need to Speed Up Your ResearchPractical and portable, this easy to use handbook offers new insight into family history today. Drawing on the expertise of the National Archives, it explores terms, topics, sources and record types from medieval times to the present, explaining how and why they can help your own research. Equally suited to browsing or quick reference, it combines wide-ranging knowledge with practical tips and advice.Compact in format and affordably priced, it offers well-organized information on, for example: key concepts in family history, including the census, parish registers, wills, trades and professions, immigration and emigration, military service and empire, land records and maps; record types and series (at the National Archives and elsewhere) and how to access them most effectively; the latest electronic developments, and advice on efficient online research; researching minority groups (religious or ethnic); demographic history (internal and external migration, denization, citizenship applications etc); hundreds of family history terms, acronyms and abbreviations; key institutions and how to use them; organizations and societies (local to international); and, the history of family history. |
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... Commission in WO 74 contain details of all officers holding a commission on 1 November 1871. These papers include officers in the INDIAN ARMY . Regimental record office returns in series WO 76 cover various dates from 1764 to 1961 ...
... commission during the war are in the series WO 339. Men given temporary commissions or officers in the Territorial Army are in series WO 374 . Both these series can be searched on TNA's catalogue . For further information on officers ...
... commissions by warrant of particular naval authorities , usually the Navy Board ( until 1832 ) but also by the ... commission and in dock . Below these were the inferior officers , the master - at - arms , surgeon's mate , armourer ...