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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... Ireland ( 1 January 1864 to 31 December 1921 ) and in Ireland excluding Northern Ireland ( the counties of Antrim , Armagh , Derry , Down , Fermanagh and Tyrone ) from 1 January 1922. For other holdings , consult the website , www ...
... ( Northern Ireland ) ( GRONI ) . The office that has records of all births and deaths registered in Northern Ireland from 1 January 1864 , marriages since 1 January 1922 , and adoptions from 1931. The district . registrar's offices have ...
... Northern Ireland ( PRONI ) . The office charged with holding the records of the government of Northern Ireland from 1921 , and of the Northern . Ireland Office from 1972. As well as these and depart- mental records , PRONI has law court ...