Family history covers many historical disciplines. It can now provide (and has already provided) material for general and specific academic studies. To discover ancestors a genealogist needs to know of all the latest developments in the world of archives. With the removal of the older records of the national archive from central London to the Public Record Office at Kew and the opening of a new Family Records Centre in London to house the General Register Office Indexes and a Public Record Office microform search room, family history research has moved forward into a new era.
The text combines an extensive glossary of the terms encountered in such research and detailed information about sources. Photographs provide an easy recognition of documents. Tables and lists give further facts in readily accessible form.
Terrick FitzHugh’s Dictionary is the most up-to-date single-volume aid to research available and is essential to serious family historian, be they professional of amateur. It has been revised again by the Society of Genealogists to take account of the ever-present changes in the field of genealogy.
Contents:
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: The Guide to Ancestry Research
Making a Start
Compiling the Record
Beginning the Documentary Research
Progress into the Past
The Victorian Era
The Early Nineteenth Century
The Hanoverian Period 1714-1837
The Stuart and Late Tudor Period 1600-1714
Tudor, Plantagenet and Beyond
Abbreviations
Part 2: The Dictionary
