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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... pedigrees . There are also some old abbrev- iations you may come across in pedigrees drawn up in the 19th century and earlier . The early pedigrees were often drawn up in Latin with corresponding Latin abbreviations . Admon . Ag . Lab ...
... pedigrees . Visitation pedigrees must be used with caution . Some early ones contain fanciful ancestors linking the family to a more auspicious medieval house or beefing up an old family legend . Even those pedigrees produced after 1570 ...
... pedigrees and hastily ' tricked ' arms ( line - drawn with the colours indicated ) , later used for drawing up the official version or ' office copy ' . After the visitation the artists often kept these working notebooks , adding to ...