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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... licence from the Excise Office to sell beer from their house or cottage . An act of 1834 increased the fee to 3 guineas for a full licence , as the number of licences issued just within the first year was huge . Beershops were those ...
... LICENCE or certificate . A further Marriage Duty Act 1694 extended the duty to registration of MARRIAGES ( duties ... licence . A common licence granted by an archbishop or bishop or their surrogate , or a special licence granted by the ...
... licence to beg , given to paupers . Tickets of leave and licence . The Penal Servitude Act 1853 provided for the freeing on licence of convicts after serving a period of penal servitude . Licences and tickets of leave releasing convicts ...