Family Roots Publishing has bundled 6 British research titles, and discounted them 75% from the original MSRP. See the items listed below. The books are also discounted 30% as individual titles. Click on the links for more information. Use your backarrow to come back to this page.
Genealogical Resources in English Repositories, by Joy Wade Moulton, was designed to provide “genealogists and historians with…information on resources in the key repositories in England. It categorizes manuscript records, as well as printed, transcribed and microfilm materials, with respect to their contents, and in most instances, lists covering dates.” Originally intended to help Americans find ancestral information. County listings represent the bulk of the information. Each county opens with a short review of local geographical and political/administrative boundary changes made over the years. The listing of each library, archive, records office, or other repository is complete with address (mostly likely not changed over the years), phone number (possibly changed over the years), and holdings of genealogical value (which most likely have only expanded over the years). Publications of possible interest are also listed.
Please note that there have been significant changes in the PRO over the years, and it might be necessary to use Google to locate the exact location of some records listed within this volume. While this book predates web usage as we know it today (including Google), is still serves as a great one-stop listing for finding genealogically important holding in England. Think of running a search at Google for English repositories, then reducing the results to an accurate, non-repeating listing of resources and then printing those results with a listing of holdings at each repository. That pretty well describes Genealogical Resources in English Repositories. Each book comes with a 1992 and 1996 update supplement. Just having the names of the various repositories gives the reader the name to search for when using the Internet. Read a full review of the book by clicking here. Use your backarrow to return to this page.
Hardcover; with two paper supplements; 648 pp; 6.25×9.25; Published: 1988 (1992); ISBN 0944485006; Item # CF3924
Lists of Londoners, Second Edition; by Jeremy Gibson and Heather Creaton
This is a guide to manuscript lists and indexes of people who lived or worked in London during various time periods. A collaboration between the Centre for Metropolitan History and the Federation of Family History Societies, it identifies unpublished indexes held in London record offices, local libraries, and family history societies. While a complete breakdown of the type of lists contained in the work would be somewhat excessive, we can point out several that are typical: parish records, marriages, wills, gravestones, censuses, taxes, oaths, and voters’ lists, among others. Entries typically include the title of the index, a rough estimate of the total number of names included in the index, and the abbreviated name of the compiler or holding institution (full names and addresses are given at the beginning of the book). For those researching elusive London ancestors, this is a magnificent aid.
Paper, 39pp, 1997, ISBN: 9780806315638, Item #GPC2193
Electoral Registers Since 1832; and Burgess Rolls, Second Edition; by Jeremy S. W. Gibson and Colin Rogers
Published annually since 1832, electoral registers list the names and addresses of everyone entitled to vote, noting the qualifications which brought each voter onto the register, such as current residence or ownership of property. During most of the 19th century the printed registers were arranged in alphabetical order by constituency, while later they were arranged in street order by parish. Thus they are used widely by genealogists as a tool to locate individuals in the various decennial censuses. Until now there has never been a guide showing just where these amazingly informative lists can be consulted, but this present work redresses that problem and provides a county-by-county inventory of published electoral registers held in libraries and record offices throughout Britain.
Paper, 60pp, 1990 (reprinted 2001), ISBN: 9780806312866, Item #: GPC2187
The Protestation Returns, 1641-1642, and Other Contemporary Listings; by Jeremy Gibson and Alan Dell
The Protestation–a form of oath of loyalty–was initiated by the House of Commons to determine the number of Roman Catholics in England and to defend the Protestant religion from all forms of “Popery.” Taken in 1641-1642, these Protestation Returns are the nearest there is (for the next two hundred years) to a widespread census of adult males. Surviving Returns, located today in the House of Lords Record Office, exist for about one-third of all English parishes. In alphabetical order by county, and therein by parishes and hundreds, this book provides an exhaustive list of all such Returns, also giving a list of published Protestation Returns. In addition, other contemporary records are itemized here, including the following: The Collection in Aid of Distressed Protestants in Ireland; The Covenants and Petitions to Parliament; and Taxation Records (Subsidy, Poll Tax, and Assessment or Grant). Taking account of all the records covered, this is an extremely important guide to name lists of the early 1640s.
Paper, 83pp, 1995, ISBN: 9780806315645, Item #: GPC2194
Bishops’ Transcripts and Marriage Licenses, Bonds and Allegations, A Guide to Their Location and Indexes, Fourth Edition, by Jeremy Gibson
This is a guide to the location of Bishops’ Transcripts and of the records connected with the issuance of marriage licenses in England, Wales, and Ireland, such as Bonds and Allegations. Also included are abstracts, calendars, and indexes to marriage licenses, published or not, and when these are lacking there is an indication of the arrangement of the surviving documents. English marriage records were maintained in a wide variety of ecclesiastical courts. Anyone searching for marriage records prior to 1837, when civil registration was introduced, will find this simplified guide to be of inestimable value. This new edition includes maps of ecclesiastical jurisdictions.
Paper, 56pp, 1997, ISBN: 9780806315690, Item #: GPC2176
The Growth of British Education and Its Records, 1st Edition by Colin R. Chapman. The\is book is an historical description of education and the present whereabouts of its records in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Every type of school imaginable is covered; including, universities, reformatories, military and adult academies. Schools were run or governed by the State, by charities, by endowments, by religious bodies of all denominations, by professional institutions and by individuals. The surviving documents, notes, and records for student admissions and attendances, teachers’ log books, reports, honors and awards, punishments, accounts and managers’ and governors’ meetings are all potentially help to family, social and educational historians.
Paoer, 76 pp; ISBN: 1873686013; Item # A0061
The collection is all specifically directed at researching British Ancestors – most of the info dealing with English research. These 6 books sell individually for anywhere from $7.50 to $45, with a total combined value of $90.00. For a limited time, FRPC is making them available as a “bundle” for 75% off – just $22.50 (plus $8.00 USA p&h).
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