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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... ecclesiastical servant , ranking below a sub - deacon and DEACON . He could assist carrying the bread and wine , and lighting the candles . Act books . Register books in which the minutes of a court are recorded . Decrees of the court ...
... ecclesiastical body ( the appropriator ) rather than the parish priest . Apron man . A man working in the manual trades , who would wear an apron to work and who was skilled or semi - skilled . Archdeacon's court . The first level of ...
... Ecclesiastical courts . Church courts . There were many , historically , that could hear causes ( cases ) , concerning offences such as heresy , witchcraft , non - attendance at church , assaults on clergy ( until 1860 ) , defamation ...