Throughout history, people have always been on the move. Even before planes, trains, and automobiles, the world saw not just families moving between towns and countrysides, but also mass migrations over great distances. For a physically small country, the United Kingdom has seen its own share of immigrants and emigrants. Over the centuries the Flemish, Huguenots, the Irish, Jews, and even the Polish have flooded into the United Kingdom. However, the country has seen its own share of emigration as well. Family History on the Move: Where Your Ancestors Went and Why, examines the movement of people, the reasons they moved, and the records they left across the United Kingdom.
Why do people move? The obvious answer is to search for a better life; though, seldom is the answer quite so simple. This book reviews the reason people moved and to help identify sources of information for the family historian about their mobile ancestors. In this book you will find:
- “Expert advice on tracking down your roaming ancestors
- How and why people came and went, from refugees and wartime aliens to families seeking better lives
- Find out more from passenger lists, arrival records, settlement documents and community sources”
Family History on the Move is focused on the in flux and out flow of people through the United Kingdom. The book was written by Roger Kershaw and Mark Pearsall and, published by the British National Archives. This pocket size book travels easily inside pocket or handbag, and can be taken along during research trip. While the book was produced in the UK, its value is relatively obvious to those living in countries, like the United Sates, who were destination countries for those who emigrated from, or simply passed through, the UK over the centuries.
Contents
Introduction: why migrate?
1 Records of arrival
2 Settling into the community
3 Becoming British
4 Refugees in Britain
5 Aliens in wartime
6 Beyond the seas
7 Crossing the pond
8 Down under
9 Further afield
10 Child migration
11 Matters of life and death
Useful addresses
Useful websites
Index
Order a copy of Family History on the Move: Where Your Ancestors Went and Why from Family Roots Publishing; Item #: TNA07, Price: $7.84.