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The Oxford guide to family history
Who were your ancestors? Where did they live? How did they earn their living? At what age did they marry, and how large were their families? Throughout the ages and across the world people have had a natural curiosity about their ancestors, but only recently have amateur historians begun to trace th...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Study of Family History
- 2. Family Names. The Origins of Surnames. The Etymology of Surnames. Early Immigrants' Surnames. Christian Names. Surnames in the Seventeenth Century in Five Counties. Locating the Home of a Family Name
- 3. Mobility and Stability. Before 1800. Old Patterns of Movement. Early Emigration. Residential Stability. After 1800. Mobility. Emigration. Stability
- 4. Family and Society. Before 1800. The Nuclear Family, Servants, and Apprentices. Marriages, Births, and Deaths. Kinship and Inheritance. Social Mobility. After 1800. Marriages, Births, and Deaths. The Landed Aristocracy and the Gentry. Farmers, Servants, and Labourers. Accommodation in an Industrial Society
- 5. A Guide to the Records. Getting Started. Civil Registration. Census Returns. Trade and Commercial Directories. Parish Registers. Records of Protestant Nonconformity. Records of Roman Catholicism. Records of Jewish Congregations. Probate Records. Manorial and Estate Records. Enclosure Awards, Tithe Awards, and Land Tax Assessments. Poor Law Records. Military Records. Apprenticeship and Freemen Records. Hearth Tax and Protestation Returns. Lay Subsidies and Poll Taxes. Reading Old Documents.