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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... JUSTICES OF THE PEACE since the 14th century . Admini- stration was by the sheriff and justices through the QUARTER SESSIONS , until the Local Government Act 1888 created administrative counties with elected county councils in England ...
... Justices in Eyre and Justices of ASSIZE to hear the cases against those held in the county gaols and prisons and try them in court . Garth or Garthstead . A yard or enclosure of land attached to a house . Gavelkind . Inheritance of a ...
... JUSTICES OF THE PEACE to hear civil and criminal cases . The more serious cases would be reserved for the ASSIZES . The justices also issued licences for a number of trades and occupations , and made orders for various aspects of county ...