British and Irish Genealogy

Parish registers are an extremely important but widely scattered archive. They are essential to the family historian and provide the only written record of numerous ancestors. This guide to parish registers covers England, Scotland and Wales and is a vital time-saving tool that will quickly become any genealogist’s bible. The atlas includes county parish maps which show pre-1882 parochial boundaries, color-coded probate jurisdictions, starting dates of surviving registers, as well as churches and chapels. Topographical maps face each parish map and show the contemporary road system and other local features. A helpful index lists all parishes with grid references to the county maps, and provides registration districts and census information. It also indicates the present whereabouts of original registers and copies, and whether a parish is included in other indexes.

This book gives state and county information that can be used to locate records in the United States.

No scholarly reference library is complete without a copy of Ancestry's Red Book. In it, you will find both general and specific information essential to researchers of American records. This revised 3rd edition provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization. Whether you are looking for your ancestors in the northeastern states, the South, the West, or somewhere in the middle, Ancestry's Red Book has information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide. In short, the Red Book is simply the book that no genealogist can afford not to have. The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail. Unlike the federal census, state and territorial census were taken at different times and different questions were asked. Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how

This book is designed to teach you how to read & understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets & letter forms, & defines terms & abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, & church records. Furthermore, it presents numerous examples of early American records for the reader to work with, for it is the author's contention that by studying & transcribing each of these documents-letter-by-letter, word-by-word-readers will become proficient in reading & understanding early American handwriting. Arranged by degree of difficulty, from relatively easy-to-read documents of the nineteenth century to those of the seventeenth century, the documents showcase examples of handwriting styles, letter forms, abbreviations, & terminology typically found in early American records. Each document-nearly 100 of them at various stages of complexity-appears with the author's transcription on a facing page, enabling the reader to check his own transcription. This strategy allows the reader to attain proficiency in reading the documents at a natural rate of progression. Also covered in the work, with particular emphasis on handwriting, are numbers & roman numerals, dates & the change from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, abbreviations & contractions, & standard terms found in early American records. In addition, there is a timely section on the Internet & compact discs, as well as an annotated bibliography of books & articles of particular interest to genealogists & historians. Taken together, these features describe a book that is absolutely indispensable in learning to read early American handwriting.

Gives a list unpublished manuscript and archival materials about English, Scots, Irish, and Welsh settlements of North America that are held in repositories of the US and Canada.