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Making The Most of The I.G.I- A McLaughlin Guide. by Eve McLaughlin. But no index is perfect! The more you know about the information you are using the better. For this reason, Making the Most of the IGI is is an important addition to your research library because it not only provides the historic background of the IGI but offers many clues about the coverage, the coding and various stages and types of entries that have been included in the IGI. Eve also includes a section on the problems and peculiarities associated with Welsh and Irish entries in the IGI. A must read when making use of the IGI. More information No Time For Family History? - 101 Things to Do Now at Home and Outside London-A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. This Guide is aimed at people who are interested in their family history but, for the moment or the forseeable future, are tied to their home or work, with just an occasional couple of hours off the hook. Unless you live near Central London, you may think that you will have to wait till you retire before you can go anywhere. This was once the case, since most of the necessary indexes and records were only available there, and in office hours too. This is not so an more - there are local reference libraries and research centres all over the country where you can see the material which covers national sources and even records from your own ancestral district, hundreds of miles away. More information First Steps in Family History - A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. To help the complete beginnner embark on their quest for family history, the author leads the reader through all the primary sources: Somerset House, the County Record Offices and the Parish Registers. There is advice on interviewing elderly relatives, tracing long lost cousins, and what you can and cannot achieve by post.Eve McLaughlin guides are rightly regarded as being amongst the best family history research guides to posess. More information Laying Out a Pedigree- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. After you have collected your family information and have arrived at fairly definitive version of your family tree, you will ant to be ail to display the results of your work. This is the point where you have to decide what effect you are after and what you want to achieve. Different forms are used for different purposes and one that suites you is the one you are entitled to use. Any approach is valid and this guide will help you decide which is right for you. More information Reading Old Handwriting- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. This guide is intended to cover the various types of writing found in registers, wills and other archive material back to the 16th century – the real writing, not the neat clerical hand which should have been used, but the pitchfork dipped in manure scrawl of the average parish clerk or country scrivener. All the examples of letter are culled form a lifetime's experience of tackling all sorts of documents all over the country. More information Interviewing Elderly Relatives- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. Interviewing Elderly Relatives or All about the Family, By the Family, For the Family, As even the most amateur genealogist knows, we must start with what we know. We know our family and our family knows us. Start by recording information on yourself and unless you are a complete orphan you will soon have a collection of memories for everyone in your immediately family. Then you can branch out. Learn how. More information Simple Latin for Family Historians- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. This guide in intended for the family historian who has never learned any Latin, or whose memory does not retain many of the standard words, which are to be found regularly in parish registers. Most clergymen confined their Latin to the basic names, relationships and dates. A lot of the clergy and all of the parish clerks who used Latin before 1733 when the order went out not to do so, managed with a remarkably small vocabulary of Latin. Included is Latin Will probate. More information The General Register Office- St Catherine's House- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. Civil registration of B-M-D did not become fact until July 1837. For most men and government, registration took place through the church registers. Falling attendance and the diversity of alternative sects, some, who kept no decent records, made it sensible to have a system independent of religious observance. This book walks you through using the GRO (General Register Office) and what you can find there. More information Somerset House Wills from 1858- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. Before January 1858, all wills were proved in church courts and the network of places that might be used is complex. From January 1858 all wills have been proved in civil courts. Wherever they are proved, the indexes have been combined centrally and can be seen freely at Somerset House in the Strand. This index guides you through Somerset house, where to look and what you will find. More information Quarter Sessions- Your Ancestor & The Law- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. The law, rules and regulations affected by the life of every one of our ancestors. This guide deals with their contacts and conflicts at local, county level, not only when their activities were criminal, in all their interaction with their neighbors and authorities, Matters which now occupy the attention of a hundred and one local and national civil servants and statutory bodies were then under the haphazard control of a small body of men which no qualifications beyond the ownership of property. In the mass of records they left, all human life is mirrored tarnished by grim as the reflection may be. They are a badly underused source for family historians, and I hope this guide will help to show their potential value. More information Family History from Newspapers- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. Newspapers are a marvelous source of information but they contain varies according to period. Before 1750, most personal news concerns the nobility and gentry, or notable crimes and scandals. In the next century more local personalities crept in. There was little directly concerning ordinary events and people until the last century. These books will advise what you can expect to find, from obits to advertisements, crime and scandal reports. Talks about national, provincial and local collections. More information The Censuses 1841-1891, Use and Interpretation- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. When people talk about the Census, they normally mean the returns of the censuses of population taken in 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 for England, Scotland and Wales that are now open to public inspection. These are valuable tools in genealogical research and this book advises where to go to look and what you can expect to find for the particular years. More information Annals of the Poor- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. Too many people have been deterred from tracing their ancestors in the past by the fear that there won't e anything about them. It is rash to assume that poor ancestors have left no documentary evidence behind them. The fact is, the poorer they were, the more likely there is to have been records. Discusses Parish organizations, and records, workhouses, migration and emigration and more. More information Illegitimacy- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. There is nothing new, unusual or shocking about illegitimacy – there is a lot of it about, there always has been. Sooner or later, most family historians will come across it among their own ancestors, unless they were more cunning than average at concealment. Circumstances were against this covering up until late Victorian times, as middle class values took hold and the turn of the century is the most difficult period for tracing the truth. . This guide examines different attitudes and records concerning illegitimacy and will advise you where to look and what you might expect to find. More information Parish Registers- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. Few old parish registers are now kept in parishes, but are by law deposited in central Records offices, While some were destroyed and some were not complete, you will have to spend some time searching through parish registers. This guide explains what you will find their and what some of the forms and comments mean. More information Nonconformist Ancestors- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. This publication will lead you through the different records, IGS, Chapel Records, Newspaper Reports, Alternative Sources, denominational archives and more. More information Manorial Records- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. If your ancestors scarcely appear in the parish registers, or worse, if two or three of the same name occur at the same time: if your great grandfather dropped in out of the blue, yet there is no settlement certificate, and all the evidence points to his being a man of property if you are lucky, you will find the magic words, "my copyhold land" or "I have surrendered to the uses of my will " in an ancestors will. The ownership of that bit of property can e traced back to its first appearance in the family. More information The Poor are Always With Us- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. This guide, after a brief background for those who have not yet read Annals of the Poor, carries on from 1834 the story of how the poor were treated in the 19th century, under the New Poor Law. It deals not only with the official handling, but the charitable efforts of the many private societies that helped to cope with a massive problem, before the first payment of a state old age pension in 1908. It also explains what job opportunities were available for your ancestors, which led them to leave the country for the towns, and even to emigrate overseas. More information Surnames and thier Origins- A McLaughlin Guide by Eve McLaughlin. How our surnames arose is an endlessly fascinating subject, which has produced much speculation, some of it very far from the mark. It is never safe to break down a modern name into the apparent meaning of its parts Catchlove has nothing to do with ensnaring young ladies and a lot to do with wolves of another sort. Our earliest ancestors made do with the one identifying name or grunt to which they answered. As the population grew and became slightly mobile, more than one person with the same identifier might occur in the same circles, and therefore an additional or "sur" name was needed. More information 1-800-361-5168 (9 am to 5 pm ET, Mon - Sat) Copyright 1996-2001 GlobalGenealogy.com Inc. 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