The Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in England and Wales

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in England and Wales
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Colin Rogers
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreFamily history and tracing ancestors
ISBN/Barcode 9780719071263
ClassificationsDewey:929.1072042
Audience
General
Edition 4th edition
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 December 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. It takes into account recent, and even some future, changes to the civil registration system, and incorporates many of the vast sources newly available on the internet. There is also a substantial bibliography for those who discover that their ancestors migrated from other countries. New appendices provide research into underregistration of birth and death, and hitherto unpublished details from the 1915 and 1939 National Registers. The family tree detective remains an indispensible source of information on how to locate births, marriages and deaths, and alternative strategies if those searches fail. Dr Colin D. Rogers is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, a member of AGRA (the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives), and was for thirty years the Hon. General Editor of the Lancashire Parish Register Society. He runs a consultancy helping banks and solicitors to identify and locate beneficiaries. -- .

Author Biography

Colin D. Rogers is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists and was Hon. General Editor of the Lancashire Parish Register Society for thirty years. He runs a consultancy which specialises in tracing missing beneficiaries for banks and solicitors.