The Oxford Guide to Family History - Couverture rigide

Hey, David

 
9780198691778: The Oxford Guide to Family History

Synopsis

Aimed at those wishing to discover more about their ancestors, this book offers advice on tracing a family tree. The author advises on how to get started, where to look for records, and how to decipher old handwriting. He also suggests ways of finding out about ordinary peole down the centuries; their ways of life, professions, and so on. Family history is a subject with broad concerns, including the origin, spread, and sometimes the decline and disappearance of families. The work of social historians is therefore of great interest, whether dealing with the size of families, the ages at which people married, or the mobility of the population. David Hey highlights these aspects of social history that are most relevant to family history research and suggests lines of enquiry that may be followed with profit and enjoyment by family historians - the past and present distribution of surnames, the stability of certain families, and the mobility of others.

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9780192803139: The Oxford Guide to Family History

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ISBN 10 :  0192803131 ISBN 13 :  9780192803139
Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 2002
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