Family Roots: Discovering the Past in the Public Record Office.

20.5 x 27cm. 231 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Pre-owner's name on front endpaper. A guide to tracing your family history through the public records. The book provides a key to exploring records relating to taxation, land and the law. It throws light on the challenging areas of emigration, immigration and migration and opens up new avenues of research to the pre-1900 records. It explains how the sources work in fifteen varied case studies and presents the first visual guide to the source material with over 165 photographs, diagrams and pedigrees. [From jacket notes] Contents include: Understanding the Sources: The Legal System / The Holding and Transfer of Land / Tax and Other Sources of Revenue / Strangers and Settlers The Sources at Work: The Turner and Plenderleath Families / The Gainsborough Family / The Walter Family / The Statham Family / The Fardon Family / The Wordsworth Family / The Garrick and Marx Families / The Dyer, Brenton and Walker Families / The Lyons, Evans, Massy and Atkinson Families. …