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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... lists from 1861 are in TNA series BT 99. This series consists of a sample of 10 per cent of agreements and crew lists ( with logbooks where they survive ) for the years 1861 to 1938 and 1951 to 1994. They are arranged by year in batches ...
... lists and staff lists are in CUST 18 ( 1675-1813 ) , CUST 19 ( 1814-29 ) and CUST 39 ( 1671-1970 ) . A few early lists are in PRO 30 / 32 / 15-29 for the period 1673 to 1689. There are also Treasury lists in T 42 from 1747 to 1847 ...
... lists form a tremendous resource . Passenger lists for ships arriving in the UK that started their voyages from ports outside Europe are in TNA series BT 26 ( covering 1890–1960 ) . A few lists survive for Queenstown ( between 1878 and ...