AncestralTrails

Ancestral Trails:
The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History

Ancestral Trails guides the researcher through the voluminous British archives, extending back to medieval times, and provides a detailed view of the records and published sources available. From newspapers and directories, civil, legal and religious records to personal recollections, photographs and other memorabilia, every kind of record is analysed, and the researcher is guided to the many detailed finding aids or indexes. Suitable for both beginners and more experienced researchers, the book has a wide-ranging scope. It provides a guide through the initial stages such as drawing family trees, obtaining information from living relatives, and beginning research in census records and the records of births, marriages and deaths. For those with more experience, this book is a treasure-trove of information about records which are harder to find and use. Including research in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, and fully revised to take account of new census availability and developments in online genealogy, this new edition is illustrated throughout and contains detailed lists of further reading. It is the essential companion and guide for all family historians. Mark Herber is a lawyer specialising in fraud investigations. He began researching his own family tree in 1979 and has traced some lines back to c. 1580. He is a member of the Library & Records Committee of the Society of Genealogists and is also the author of Legal London: A Pictorial History and Criminal London: A Pictorial History from Medieval Times to 1939 as well as three volumes of transcripts of the marriage registers of the Chapel and Rules o the Fleet Prison 1680-1754.