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Military, Heraldry & Legal Matters
Military, Heraldry and Legal Matter - Kathy Chater's round up of the latest CDs.... Read More
Issue 77 - Ancestors Magazine - Kathy Chater
Business matters, poll books, parish registers, and not so ordinary people
Kathy Chater gives the low-down on the latest CDs, including business matters, poll books, parish registers, and not so ordinary people.... Read More
People and Places in Trade
Trade directories contain descriptions of the various communities within their area, plus listings of gentry, officials and tradespeople. They also contain additional information about the locality, all of which can be of use to family and local historian... Read More
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We Shall Remember Them
Taken from the Overseas Births, Marriages and Death Series at the Family Records Centre, First World War: Army, Army Officer and Navy War Deaths provides an index to those who died in the Great War.... Read More
Census Returns
The 1841 Census contains less useful information for family historians than later ones, but it is nevertheless worth investigating... Read More
Trade and street directories
County or regional trade directories normally list people in charge of different businesses, this review covers two such directories.... Read More
Shropshire 1871 Census
Shropshire 1871 Census Images contains digitized copies of the original pages... Read More
Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases Victorian biographies
The Imperial Dictionary of Univeral Biography (S&N, 3 CD-ROMs, £24.95) is one of those splendid Victorian undertakings, an attempt to summarise all those who had contributed to the development of Western civilisation up to the nineteenth century.... Read More
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Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases Visitations
In Scotland the Court of the Lord Lyon King of Arms exerted, and still does, strict control of armigerous bearings. In England and Wales, however, the responsibility of ensuring that people who claim the right to bear arms are entitled to do so has no sta... Read More
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Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases The right to vote
Somerset Electoral Register: East and West Divisions 1832 (S&N Genealogy Supplies £9.95) is a digitally enhanced copy of the list of those entitled to vote in 1832, following the great Reform Act which considerably extended the franchise.... Read More
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Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases
Army Officers... Read More
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Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases Knights of the Realm
The Knights of England, Scotland, Ireland and Knight Bachelors (S&N Genealogy Supplies, £19.95) contains a complete record of the knights of the orders of chivalry in the British Isles between 1348-1904.... Read More
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Kathy Chater’s guide to recent releases Naval Service
The Navy List 1850 (S&N Genealogy Supplies, £19.95) contains additional information beyond naval officers and the dates of their seniority, which takes the careers of some back into the late eighteenth century.... Read More
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Landowners in the nineteenth century
In response to a question asked in the House of Lords in 1872, returns of landowners in England and Wales (except for London) were compiled and published. Everyone who owned more than one acre of land was included.... Read More