Tracing Your Ancestors’ Parish Records: A Guide for Family and Local Historians - Softcover

Raymond, Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783030445 ISBN 13: 9781783030446

Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History, 2015

Synopsis

Parish records are essential sources for family and local historians, and Stuart Raymond’s handbook is an invaluable guide to them. He explores and explains the fascinating and varied historical and personal information they contain. His is the first thoroughgoing survey of these resources to be published for over three decades.

In a concise, easy-to-follow text he describes where these important records can be found and demonstrates how they can be used. Records relating to the poor laws, apprentices, the church, tithes, enclosures and charities are all covered. The emphasis throughout is on understanding their original purpose and on revealing how relevant they are for researchers today.

Compelling insights into individual lives and communities in the past can be gleaned from them, and they are especially useful when they are combined with other major sources, such as the census.

Your Ancestors’ Parish is an excellent introduction to this key area of family and local history research – it is a book that all family and local historians should have on their

About this title

About the Author

Stuart Raymond is a genealogical bibliographer, publisher and bookseller, an experienced family historian, and an expert on the history of wills and other probate records. He is also a prolific author of genealogical handbooks, web directories and library guides.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783030445
• ISBN 13: 9781783030446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192