Tracing Your British and Irish Ancestors
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Beginnings
What You Know
Charting Your Family
The State and the Parish
Archives in Britain and Ireland
Chapter 2: Building Blocks: National Records
Civil Registration
The Census
Chapter 3: Building Blocks: Regional Records
The Parish: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials
The Parish Chest
Chapter 4: Going Further
Nonconformity
Wills and Probate
Migration
Those Who Served: A Military Miscellany
Working Lives
Secrets, Scandals and Hard Times
Chapter 5: Further Resources
Websites
Miscellaneous