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  • Genealogical Resources within the Jewish Home and FamilyGenealogical Resources within the Jewish Home and Family Quick View
    • Genealogical Resources within the Jewish Home and FamilyGenealogical Resources within the Jewish Home and Family Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy, Religion
    • Genealogical Resources within the Jewish Home and Family

    • £5.95
    • This book is a guide to the genealogical data and material available within the family and home. Much applies generally to all groups, but there are some items that are specific to the Jewish family and home.
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  • Grandad Did A Dastardly Deed – 50 more family history trapsGrandad Did A Dastardly Deed – 50 more family history traps Quick View
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    • Books, Genealogy
    • Grandad Did A Dastardly Deed – 50 more family history traps

    • £9.99
    • This book continues the work of its predecessor "Granny Was a Brothel Keeper". Written in a light-hearted vein is packed with cartoons, true stories and further tips in your search for for your ancestors.
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  • Irish Family History, A Beginners GuideIrish Family History, A Beginners Guide Quick View
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    • Books, Genealogy
    • Irish Family History, A Beginners Guide

    • £5.95
    • For those wanting to research their Irish family history this book provides the basic guidance needed. It introduces the reader to techniques of research, guides to the use of archives, libraries and the internet, and suggests numerous research sources.
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  • Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany & Austria Quick View
    • Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany & Austria Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy, Religion
    • Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany & Austria

    • £3.50
    • The Guide includes detailed information about the holdings of the various resource centres  including archives, libraries, museums, record offices, synagogues, etc.. for your German and Austrian ancestors. It is designed specifically with family historian in mind, whether or not a beginner.
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  • Mind Mapping Made EasyMind Mapping Made Easy Quick View
    • Mind Mapping Made EasyMind Mapping Made Easy Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Mind Mapping Made Easy

    • £9.95
    • Mind mapping is an invaluable skill that can enhance every stage of your genealogical journey, and helps in identifying gaps in the family historian's  research.The book takes the researcher through a different aspect of family history research.
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  • Tracing your Ancestors using the UK Historical TimelineTracing your Ancestors using the UK Historical Timeline Quick View
    • Tracing your Ancestors using the UK Historical TimelineTracing your Ancestors using the UK Historical Timeline Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Tracing your Ancestors using the UK Historical Timeline

    • £12.99
    • This timeline guide to genealogical resources helps the family historian to understand what records are available and from when, and allows  to put our ancestors into a historical and socio-cultural context.
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  • A Secretary Hand, an ABC BookA Secretary Hand, an ABC Book Quick View
    • A Secretary Hand, an ABC BookA Secretary Hand, an ABC Book Quick View
    • Berkshire FHS Publications, Books, Genealogy, Recommended
    • A Secretary Hand, an ABC Book

    • £7.00
    • With thousands of copies sold, this very popular handy guide to “secretary hand” includes illustrations of characters A to Z, common abbreviations, practice words, numbers and some samples and transcripts of wills 16th to 18th centuries, nursery rhymes and a list of words. Written by former chairman Alf Ison, this book is published by Berkshire Family History Society.
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  • Beginning Your Family History (Pelling)Beginning Your Family History (Pelling) Quick View
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    • Beginning Your Family History (Pelling)

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  • Berkshire Feet of Fines 1307-1509 Quick View
    • Berkshire Feet of Fines 1307-1509 Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Berkshire Feet of Fines 1307-1509

    • £45.00
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  • Birth and Baptism Records for Family HistoriansBirth and Baptism Records for Family Historians Quick View
    • Birth and Baptism Records for Family HistoriansBirth and Baptism Records for Family Historians Quick View
    • Births and Baptisms, Books, Genealogy
    • Birth and Baptism Records for Family Historians

    • £4.50
    • The author describes the wide range of resources available, indicating where the records of births/baptisms can be found and how they should be used.
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  • Buckinghamshire Contiguous ParishesBuckinghamshire Contiguous Parishes Quick View
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    • Buckinghamshire Contiguous Parishes

    • £1.00 Original price was: £1.00.£0.50Current price is: £0.50.
    • This research guide lists all parishes alphabetically with their adjoining parishes in Buckinghamshire. Where parishes are contiguous with other counties they are shown using the Chapman County Codes.
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  • Criminal Petitions Index 1819-1839 (CD)Criminal Petitions Index 1819-1839 (CD) Quick View
    • Criminal Petitions Index 1819-1839 (CD)Criminal Petitions Index 1819-1839 (CD) Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Criminal Petitions Index 1819-1839 (CD)

    • £6.50
    • This CD comprises an index to 10,062 names in Piece numbers HO17/40-79 held in the National Archives. The information given includes name, age (in many cases), offence, place and date of trial, sentence, prison and the full TNA Reference.
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  • Criminal Register Indexes,  Vol CDP2  South-Central (PRO HO27) 1805-1816 (CD) Quick View
    • Criminal Register Indexes,  Vol CDP2  South-Central (PRO HO27) 1805-1816 (CD) Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Criminal Register Indexes, Vol CDP2 South-Central (PRO HO27) 1805-1816 (CD)

    • £9.99
    • Includes Berkshire and England & Wales Master Index.
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  • Dictionary of Saints’ Days, Fasts, Feasts & FestivalsDictionary of Saints’ Days, Fasts, Feasts & Festivals Quick View
    • Dictionary of Saints’ Days, Fasts, Feasts & FestivalsDictionary of Saints’ Days, Fasts, Feasts & Festivals Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Dictionary of Saints’ Days, Fasts, Feasts & Festivals

    • £7.95
    • Family, local and general historians all rely heavily on dates. This dictionary -160 pages - is a guide to the many special days on which celbrations or annual customs took place, setting them briefly in an historic, religious or social context.
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  • Family Historian’s Enquire Within, TheFamily Historian’s Enquire Within, The Quick View
    • Family Historian’s Enquire Within, TheFamily Historian’s Enquire Within, The Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Family Historian’s Enquire Within, The

    • £9.99
    • NEW LOWER PRICE This new edition of the standard reference work for family historians, gives clear and concise information on more than 1,000 entries giving explanations, definitions, dates, and useful websites
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  • Granny was a Brothel Keeper; 50 Family History TrapsGranny was a Brothel Keeper; 50 Family History Traps Quick View
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    • Books, Genealogy
    • Granny was a Brothel Keeper; 50 Family History Traps

    • £8.99
    • This is an entertaining collection of true stories which illustrate the fascinating and sometimes bizarre world of family history research. It also outlines many of the traps which lie in wait for the family historian.
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  • Guide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents from your Jewish Ancestors, AGuide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents from your Jewish Ancestors, A Quick View
    • Guide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents from your Jewish Ancestors, AGuide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents from your Jewish Ancestors, A Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Guide to Reading Hebrew Inscriptions and Documents from your Jewish Ancestors, A

    • £4.50
    • This guide is designed to help those people (whether Jewish or non-Jewish) who have difficulty in reading or understanding Hebrew. It includes English explanation, translation and transliteration of the Hebrew in the book.
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  • Hw 2*t ur Fmly Hstry (How to start your Family History)Hw 2*t ur Fmly Hstry (How to start your Family History) Quick View
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    • Hw 2*t ur Fmly Hstry (How to start your Family History)

    • £2.50 Original price was: £2.50.£1.00Current price is: £1.00.
    • NEW LOWER PRICE. "Where do I come from?" is a question asked by most children at some time. Aimed at children aged 9 to 16 tells them how to go about starting their family history and contains puzzles and snippets of interest that can be enjoyed by all.
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  • Jewish Ancestors?  A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United KingdomJewish Ancestors?  A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom Quick View
    • Jewish Ancestors?  A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United KingdomJewish Ancestors?  A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom

    • £4.50
    • The Guide includes detailed information about the holdings of the various resource  centres throughout the UK  including archives, libraries, museums, record offices, synagogues, etc.. It is designed specifically with family historian in mind, whether or not a beginner.
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  • Jewish Family History Records, A Guide to organising Quick View
    • Jewish Family History Records, A Guide to organising Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Jewish Family History Records, A Guide to organising

    • £4.95
    • This book provides numerous suggestions to help family historians who have gathered a lot of information about their family and need help with putting it in order. The guidance will be of use to all family historians.
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    • Latin Documents for family and local historians, Making Sense of

    • £7.50
    • NEW LOWER PRICEThe aim of this book is to act as a crib; to set out and translate the basic form of the most useful and common Latin documents and gives translations one sentence at a time as the standard phrases do not always occur in the expected order.
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  • Latin for family historians, Glossary Quick View
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    • Latin for family historians, Glossary

    • £3.50
    • This book aims to include most of the commoner Latin words which occur in parish registers, wills, title deeds, manorial records, etc and gives guidance to their meanings in English.
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  • Law and Order, (Portraits of the English 2) Quick View
    • Law and Order, (Portraits of the English 2) Quick View
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    • Law and Order, (Portraits of the English 2)

    • £1.50
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  • Marriage Law for Genealogists: the Definitive Guide Quick View
    • Marriage Law for Genealogists: the Definitive Guide Quick View
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    • Marriage Law for Genealogists: the Definitive Guide

    • £9.99
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  • Marriage Laws, Rites, Records & Customs. Quick View
    • Marriage Laws, Rites, Records & Customs. Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Marriage Laws, Rites, Records & Customs.

    • £5.50
    • Details of courtship, marriage and divorce are encompassed in this excellently indexed book. Nearly 200 marriage and divorce laws of church and state are mentioned with precise references to original legislation.
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  • Marriage Records for Family Historians Quick View
    • Marriage Records for Family Historians Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Marriage Records for Family Historians

    • £4.50
    • The author describes the wide range of resources available, indicating where the records of marriages can be found and how they should be used.
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  • Methodist Records for Family HistoriansMethodist Records for Family Historians Quick View
    • Methodist Records for Family HistoriansMethodist Records for Family Historians Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • Methodist Records for Family Historians

    • £4.95
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  • My Ancestor was a BastardMy Ancestor was a Bastard Quick View
    • My Ancestor was a BastardMy Ancestor was a Bastard Quick View
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    • My Ancestor was a Bastard

    • £7.99
    • A Family Historian's Guide to Sources for Illegitimacy in England and Wales, Also help readers to understand the problem by giving it a wider historical context.
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  • My Ancestor was ScottishMy Ancestor was Scottish Quick View
    • My Ancestor was ScottishMy Ancestor was Scottish Quick View
    • Books, Genealogy
    • My Ancestor was Scottish

    • £6.50
    • This book fulfils the need for a guide aimed at genealogists who are familiar with records and research south of the border, but who need to get to grips with the differences and nuances of researching in Scotland.
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  • New Cousins, How to Trace Living Descendants of your Ancestors Quick View
    • New Cousins, How to Trace Living Descendants of your Ancestors Quick View
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    • New Cousins, How to Trace Living Descendants of your Ancestors

    • £2.50
    • NEW LOWER PRICE This book is guide to descendant searching. That is, looking for living relative and offers tips and guidance using the major sources for family history and includes worked examples.
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  • Protestation Returns, 1641-42 and other contemporary listings (Gibson Guide) Quick View
    • Protestation Returns, 1641-42 and other contemporary listings (Gibson Guide) Quick View
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    • Protestation Returns, 1641-42 and other contemporary listings (Gibson Guide)

    • £5.50
    • The Protestation Returns held in the Parliamentary Archives are some of the few listings of people and places dating from 1641-42.
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  • Researching Adoption, An essential guide to tracing your birth relatives and ancestorsResearching Adoption, An essential guide to tracing your birth relatives and ancestors Quick View
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    • Researching Adoption, An essential guide to tracing your birth relatives and ancestors

    • £4.95
    • For anyone researching an adoption in the family, or someone in your family, or an ancestor was adopted, this guide can help. Packed with useful information, it examines methods and resources for research plus ideas, advice and guidance.
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  • Researching Family History in WalesResearching Family History in Wales Quick View
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  • Researching Scottish Family HistoryResearching Scottish Family History Quick View
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    • Researching Scottish Family History

    • £7.95
    • This is a beginner's guide to Scottish Family History. It outlines the basic sources needed for tracing your Scottish ancestors.
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  • Starting Your Family HistoryStarting Your Family History Quick View
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    • Starting Your Family History

    • £5.99
    • An uncomplicated guide on how to start your family history. Well illustrated with many examples of the basic sources of information you will need to grow your family tree.
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  • Surname DetectiveSurname Detective Quick View
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    • Surname Detective

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  • Surnames Handbook – A Guide to Family Name Research in the 21st Century, TheSurnames Handbook – A Guide to Family Name Research in the 21st Century, The Quick View
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    • Surnames Handbook – A Guide to Family Name Research in the 21st Century, The

    • £7.50
    • The Surnames Handbook, by our own Debbie Kennett, provides a comprehensive guide to researching your surname using genealogical methods in conjunction with the latest advances in DNA testing and surname mapping.
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  • Surrey Contiguous Parishes Quick View
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    • Surrey Contiguous Parishes

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    • This research guide lists all parishes alphabetically with their adjoining parishes in Surrey. Where parishes are contiguous with other counties they are shown using the Chapman County Codes.
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  • Tracing German Speaking AncestorsTracing German Speaking Ancestors Quick View
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    • This book aims to give researchers ideas where to start researching their Germa ancestors.
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  • Tracing your Jewish Ancestors, A guide for Family HistoriansTracing your Jewish Ancestors, A guide for Family Historians Quick View
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    • Tracing your Jewish Ancestors, A guide for Family Historians

    • £8.50
    • An informative guide to researching Jewish family history; absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of Jewish ancestors.
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