Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Tracing your Ancestors) - Softcover

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Elliott, Brian

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9781848842397: Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Tracing your Ancestors)
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ISBN 10: 1848842392 ISBN 13: 9781848842397
Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History, 2014

Synopsis

In the 1920s there were over a million coal miners working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today – many of us have a coal mining ancestor.

Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott’s concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coal miners in the past.

His overview of the coal mining history – and the case studies and research tips he provides – will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain’s industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coal mining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community.

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About the Author

Brian Elliott is a well-known local historian and editor who has written widely about the British coalmining history. Among his recent books on the subject are Barnsley Pits and Pitmen, Yorkshire Miners, Yorkshire Mining Veterans, The Miners' Strike Day by Day, South Yorkshire Mining Disasters (2 vols), Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors and in Pen and Sword's Images of the Past series, Coalminers.

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Publisher
Pen and Sword Family History
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1848842392
ISBN 13 
9781848842397
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288
Rating
  • 3.83 out of 5 stars
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