Birth, Marriage And Death Records: A Guide For Family Historians
by David Annal /
2012 / English / EPUB
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Birth, marriage and death records are an essential resource for
family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative
introduction to them. It explains the original motives for
registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how
these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be
explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins
guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in
understanding the documentation. They recount the history of parish
registers from their origin in Tudor times, they look at how civil
registration was organized in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries and explain how the system in England and Wales differs
from those in Scotland and Ireland. The record-keeping practiced by
nonconformist and foreign churches, in communities overseas and in
the military is also explained, as are the systems of the Isle of
Man and the Channel Islands. Other useful sources of evidence for
births, marriages and deaths are explored and, of course, the
authors assess the online sites that researchers can turn to for
help in this crucial area of family history research.
Birth, marriage and death records are an essential resource for
family historians, and this handbook is an authoritative
introduction to them. It explains the original motives for
registering these milestones in individual lives, describes how
these record-keeping systems evolved, and shows how they can be
explored and interpreted. Authors David Annal and Audrey Collins
guide researchers through the difficulties they may encounter in
understanding the documentation. They recount the history of parish
registers from their origin in Tudor times, they look at how civil
registration was organized in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries and explain how the system in England and Wales differs
from those in Scotland and Ireland. The record-keeping practiced by
nonconformist and foreign churches, in communities overseas and in
the military is also explained, as are the systems of the Isle of
Man and the Channel Islands. Other useful sources of evidence for
births, marriages and deaths are explored and, of course, the
authors assess the online sites that researchers can turn to for
help in this crucial area of family history research.