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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... consult TNA Research Guides MR 73 British Army Officers ' Commissions , MR 4 Officers ' Records 1660-1913 and MR 10 ... TNA in the ASSI series . Consult TNA Research Guides LR12 Assizes : English , 1656-1971 : Assizes 37 Key to Series ...
... TNA . There is an early register in HO 65/26 covering 1829 to 1836 , service registers in MEPO 4 and Pension records in MEPO 21. Consult TNA Research Guide DR 52 Metropolitan Police ( London ) : Records of Service . Poll books . The ...
... consult TNA Research Guides MR30 Royal Navy : Officers ' Service Records and MR79 Officers ' Service Records , First World War , and Confidential Reports , 1893-1943 . Sacrament certificates . Under the Test Act 1673 all persons holding ...