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Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist, and he is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is known worldwide. This CD-ROM contains a collection of material all relating to Robert Burns.
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As a Bendigo-born youth, Jess joined the cadets in 1899, served in the militia with 8th Australian Infantry Regiment, then transferred to the Administrative and Instructional Staff of the Permanent ...
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Do your know what ARC, BIRDIE, DAMRUS, FIOA, GEDCOM, OVI or Xpofer mean? These and many other abbreviations, acronyms and initials are defined in this essential reference guide ...
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For just over a hundred years there was a regular passenger liner service across the Pacific connecting Australia and New Zealand with the west coast of North America. With his usual meticulous research, Peter Plowman describes the liners that traversed the Pacific and companies that owned and managed them ...
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All the King's Enemies: A History of the 2/5th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-1945
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All-Australia Memorial: Victoria
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Many books have been written by officers, historians and military experts on the part the Anzacs played in the Dardanelles campaign during the First World War. There are ...
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William Buchanan's groundbreaking book "An Inquiry into the Genealogy and Present Stare of Ancient Scottish Surnames" was one of the first of the great histories of the Highland clans. Originally published in 1723, Buchanan's primary purpose in writing the book was ...
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In 1829 at the Supreme Court in Sydney, the bewitching Jane New was sentenced to death. Her crime: shoplifting a bolt of printed French silk. But was she guilty? Many had their doubts.
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The biography and history of W. Dampier, his times and exploration in WA 1688-1699.
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Roy Denning was a First World War Soldier who went to Gallipoli as a sapper with No. 1 Field Company, Engineers. He was an articulate man and he has ...
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One of Australia's most outstanding soldier-surgeons, Sir Neville Howse was awarded the Victoria Cross for heroism during the Boer War, the first time it had been conferred on ...
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Anzac Memorial
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'The Anzac Memorial’ is a comprehensive compilation of names and primary source material from the First World War, and is compiled as a memorial to the Anzacs who fought and died in the Great War.
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'Aussie' was a popular Australian soldiers magazine during and after World War One.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1883
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1886
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1892
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1896
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Contains a large amount of statistics and current Medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand and several of the Pacific Islands including Fiji, Samoa and New Caledonia.
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Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1900
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Australasian Medical Directory Compendium
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Legal terminology differs from place to place and time to time, and successful genealogical research depends on the clear understanding of this changing terminology.
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2005 marked 90 years since the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign. 'Bloody Gallipoli' is a highly readable and often tragic account of this doomed campaign from the New Zealand perspective. Drawing on personal diaries and reproducing over 350 photographs ...
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Bloody Provost
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The first comprehensive account of the office of Provost Marshal. The brutality of Wellington's Provost Marshals in the Peninsula earned them the nickname 'Bloody Provost'. Their cruelties were legendary, especially ...
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Boer War Men of Queanbeyan-Braidwood Region: Adventurers or Patriots?
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The Boer War drew men from all states of Australia and the region around Michelago - Queanbeyan - Bungendore - Braidwood - Majors Creek - Araluen was no ...
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Bold, Steady, Faithful: The History of the 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment 1854-1993
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Bomber Boys: The Ruhr, The Dambusters and Bloody Berlin
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Bound for South Australia: Births and Deaths on Government-Assisted Immigrant Ships 1848-1885
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Bowler of Gallipoli: Witness to the Anzac Legend
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Dr Frank Glen's book provides a study of the only New Zealanders to serve on the Staff Corps of ANZAC at Gallipoli in 1915. Glen traces the career of a ...
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Bowyangs and Boomerangs: Reminiscences of 40 Years Prospecting in Australia and Tasmania
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Facsimile f the original 1944 edution. This is M.J. O'Reilly, or 'Mulga Mick' as he was known, autobiographical account of his life in Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia and ...
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Boyd Family Records
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Bridging the Gap: The 3rd Combat Engineer Regiment in Timor 1999-2000
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In 1999, UNAMET was tasked to conduct the popular consultation in East Timor. The independence vote was overwhelming and as violence escalated, the staff withdrew and the UN ...
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Britain's Working Coast in Victorian and Edwardian Times
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The coastline of Victorian and Edwardian Britain provided beauty, entertainment and the venue for most people’s holidays. But it was also a thriving centre of industry. This book travels around Britain’s coast looking at the industries that could be found ...
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British Battalions in France and Belgium 1914
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British Campaign Medals 1914-2005
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British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning
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British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000
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Bygone Days on the Tamar
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Caithness Family History
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Caithness is a martime county in the extreme northeast of mainland Scotland. Covering numerous families who settled in the region including the Sinclair and St Clairs. The histories are both genealogical and historical and include many families not often featured in standard histories ...
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Calvert's Golden West: Albert Frederick Calvert, a Biography an Bibliography
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Albert Frederick Calvert claimed that he was born in Australia of an Australian born father. If this is correct, this would make him the only Australian born author to have ...
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Campbell Family History from The Scots Peerage
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This CD contains the 178 pages from 'The Scots Peerage', written by Sir James Balfour-Paul, that related to the Campbell family. Presented here is the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Campbell family holding titles of nobility.
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Capes and Captains: A Comprehensive Study of the Australian Coast
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Ignorance is human fate. And yet, at all times, humans searching for knowledge have reached out beyond the expanding horizon shielding the unknown. In the middle of the ...
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Here is the intriguing and unfamiliar story of Captain Bligh's second voyage to the South Pacific, commenced in 1791, only one year after his return to England following the infamous mutiny on the 'Bounty'.
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In three epic journeys, Captain Cook discovered more of the earth's surface than any other man. Yet James Cook himself has become shrouded in myth and his legacy has been ...
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Captain James Cook: A Biography
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James Cook was the last and greatest of the romantic navigators. In his relatively short and adventurous life (1728-1729) he voyages to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, ...
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Cargo for the Colony: The 1797 Wreck of the Merchant Ship 'Sydney Cove'
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Wrecked in 1797 while on a journey from Calcutta to Port Jackson, the 'Sydney Cove' was the first merchant vessel lost after the establishment of the colony of New South ...
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Artists and craftspeople who want to enhance their projects with the magic of Celtic design will welcome this treasury of attractive motifs. Illustrators and graphic artists will find here a ...
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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men
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Charles Kingsford Smith is one of Australia's most loved heroes. In an action-packed life, the indomitable 'Smithy' went from fighting as a soldier amid the carnage of Gallipoli and the Western Front to taking to the skies against the likes of the Red Baron. Along with Charles Ulm, he was the first to conquer the Pacific by air ...
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Chased by the Sun: The Australians in Bomber Command in WWII
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The glow of the sun was frightening and it chased them home... Bill Brill began losing height to escape the sky growing lighter above and behind him. But the sun ...
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Chavasse's Advice to a Wife
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Republished here on fully-searchable CD-ROM is the 15th edition of Pye Henry Chavasse's "Advice to a Wife on the Management of here own Health and on the Treatment of some of the Complaints Incidental to Pregnancy, Labour and Suckling", which was issued in 1909 ...
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Chronicles of the Armstrongs
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Chronicles of the Cochrans
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Circus: The Australian Story
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Sparked by his own insatiable curiosity about his own family’s celebrated past in the Australian circus, author Mark St Leon, presents a comprehensive, entertaining and visually stunning history of circus in Australia.
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Cite Your Sources: A Manual for Documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records
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After you have uncovered a valuable piece of family history, your first responsibility is to preserve information about where you found it. Can you be confident that the ...
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Clan Donald Family Records
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This CD contains seven separate books or articles relating to the history of the Clan Donald. The items which appear on this disc are: 'History and Genealogy of the MacDonalds of ...
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Clan Gregor Records: A Collection of Materials Relating to the MacGregor Family
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Clan Warfare in the Scottish Highlands
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After 1400 Scottish families competed for area supremacy or fought each other over various conflicts and feuds. There was no central authority to impose order, and warfare into the 18th century could be endemic on a local scale. This book details the competition between clans ...
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Coals by Ship From Newcastle: the '60 Milers and Other Colliers
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Records the details of all known steamships regularly employed in the delivery of coal from the Hunter Region to Sydney by sea. There is also an examination of the development ...
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Colonial Families of the United States Descended From ... Bell, Beal, Bale, Beale, Beall
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Complete Guide to Heraldry
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Published in 1909, this is Arthur Charles Fox-Davies' classic work of heraldry, which covers his a vast range of knowledge on the topic. In-depth analysis of the history behind charges used in heraldry, explaining many famous devices in heraldry and dispelling many common heraldic myths. Illustrated by nine plates in colour ...
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Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom
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Originally published in 1887-1898 in 8 volumes (3688 pages), this magnificent work has now been re-released as a facsimile on CD-ROM. Covering England, Ireland, and Scotland it provides extensive biographical and genealogical information on 1000s of families and the titles which they held ...
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Comyn - Cumyn - Cumming Family Records
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For those researching the surname Comyn, Cumyn or Cumming ... this may well be of interest to you, as this CD contains a collection of materials which relate to the Comyn family.
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Conserving, Preserving and Restoring Your Heritage
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Artifacts, whether found in museums, our community, our our homes, offer glimpses into the past. Be they documents, photographs, books, or clothing, as
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Convoys up the Track: A History of 121st Australian General Transport Company (AIF) 1941-1946
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'Convoys up the Track' is the story of 121 Australian General Transport Company (AIF) which served a vast expanse of Australia from Adelaide to Eucla, Mount Gambier to ...
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Coopers and Coopering
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Wooden casks, or what most people today call barrels, are containers of exceptional strength, durability, versatility and mobility, but they have become a rarity in Britain, displaced so ...
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Coopers and Customs Cutters: the Worthingtons of Dover
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The author, one of the most successful professional genealogists in Australia, has explored the lives and work of her ancestors in Dover in the 18th and early 19th centuries, where ...
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Cornish Family Names
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This handy reference work serves not only to give the origins and meanings of over 100 true Cornish family names. It is packed with information and stories of many Cornish people who have left their mark and their family names in some of the farthest flung corners of the ...
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Corps of Royal Australian Engineers in the Second World War 1939-45
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This publication describes the work and achievements of the Royal Australian Engineers throughout the duration of WWII. It includes a list of Engineers involved in campaigns during the war, a list of those who were presented with decorations and awards, and a memoriam list of those who lost their lives ...
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Costumes and clothes are the most visible means we have of expressing ourselves. For hundreds of years they have been used to signify status, power, political messages and ...
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Courage a Grace: Dame Mary Gilmore
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Cracking the Code of Old Handwriting
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Sooner or later, family historians will come across a major obstacle in progressing their research - old handwriting can be difficult to resolve and this booklet is designed to overcome some of these problems.
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Craft of the Bellfounder
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The bellfounder's craft is traced from prehistoric China to the present day. Every aspect of the craft is covered; from the mining, smelting and alloying of the metal, through design, ...
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Crichton Family Records
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Cruiser: The Life and Loss of HMAS Perth and her Crew
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Of all the Australians who fought in the Second World War, none saw more action nor endured so much of its hardship and horror as the crew of the cruiser HMAS Perth. The definitive biography of the Australian cruiser HMAS Perth, and the brave men who sailed with her.
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Culloden 1746: The Highland Clans' Last Charge
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On 25 July 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed with a handful of supporters on the west coast of Scotland. This marked the beginning of the '45 ...
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There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it culminated was certainly ...
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Daniel Solander, the 18th century Swedish naturalist and traveller was a pioneer of the scientific study of natural history and one of the earliest collectors in New Holland.P For many ...
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Darwin Bombed: An A/A Gunner's Reflections
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This updated edition of Jack's controversial autobiography presents the unofficial history of the 14th Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery in Darwin. The Battery was the first army unit to engage the Japanese when they attacked Australia. It details the way ordinary people coped with the hardships of life in the tropical north and how they reacted under fire.
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Darwin Dilemmas
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Ron Brown was one of the few who was in Darwin throughout the war. This is his story of Darwin life just before and during WWII. This is a slightly ...
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Darwin's Submarine I-124
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The first attacks on Australia by the Japanese were made by four submarines of the Sixth Submarine Squadron of the Imperial Japanese Navy. These 80-man boats laid mines, and then waited in their killing zones for targets to torpedo. On 20 January 1942, it all went horribly wrong. Sunk with all hands, the submarine I-124 ...
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Dating Nineteenth Century Photographs
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Photography was and is a staggering invention. It brought our ancestors face to face with themselves, and it brings us face to face with them. Not surprisingly, therefore, ...
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Dating Old Army Photographs
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A lot can be learned from a photograph, and the same goes for military photographs. Even if you have no military knowledge, the author takes you through the a head-to-toe examination of British military uniform and accoutrements identifying possible dating clues ...
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Dating Twentieth Century Photographs
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Photography was and is a staggering invention. It brought our ancestors face to face with themselves, and it brings us face to face with them. Not surprisingly, therefore, ...
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Death Certificates and Archaic Medical Terms
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Death certificates are an important document in family research, This book examines the history and evolution of death certificates. When did they start? What is on them? What were the legal requirements? What does it mean when a death is certified? as well as giving meanings to a number of archaic terms ...
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Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage 1923
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One of the 'standard' books of it's type, 'Debrett's' is a huge book with more than 2000 pages of pure biographical details ... and not just those of the the ...
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Defenders of Australia: The Third Australian Division 1916-1991
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From the nation's founding in 1901, the primary means of Australia's defence has been its citizen soldier. In times of peace and war, the Australian Army and the ...
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Descendants of Simon Fraser of Laggan, Inverness-shire
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The "Descendants of Simon Fraser of Laggan, Inverness-shire, Scotland" covers not only the descendants in Scotland but also
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Destination Never Reached: New South Wales Shipwrecks
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The final book in a trilogy on New South Wales shipwrecks, 'Destination Never Reached' covers the events leading up to some of the State's most tragic shipwrecks. Using ...
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Devil's Marble: John Flynn's Grave in Central Australia
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'A very busy day. Lord and Lady Carrington arrived from England. Miss Harbord, 3 Gentlemen in Suite, 3 children, two nurses, two maids, 2 valets. Every room occupied.
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Dictionary of Australian Biography
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Digging for Diggers: A Guide to Researching an Australian Soldier of the Great War, 1914-1918
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This book provides a step-by-step guide to finding, interpreting and appreciating the stories of those Australians who served in World War I. It shows the research pathways, and ...
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Digital Restoration From Start to Finish: How to Repair Old and Damaged Photographs
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The battlefields of Britain are a strangely neglected part of the British heritage. A few, such as Bosworth and Culloden, have visitor centres, and efforts have been made ...
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Discovering English County Regiments
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Doctors at Sea: Emigrant Voyages to Colonial Australia
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Here are presented the genealogical and historical records of all branches of the Douglas family holding titles of nobility that are in Sir James Balfour-Paul's 'bible' The Scots Peerage ...
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Embers on the Sea: The Empire Patrol Disaster 1945
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The conflagration which destroyed the 'Empire Patrol' after World War II took with it more than just the lives of many Greek refugees. For most of the survivors, ...
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Encounter Bay Shipping 1850-1864
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This book contains information on the shipping movements to the South Australian South Coast area during to working life of Port Elliot. Covers Rosetta Cove, Victor Harbor, Port Elliot and the Murray Mouth.
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Ernest Giles: Explorer and Traveller 1835-1897
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Between 1872 and 1876 Ernest Giles led 5 expeditions into Australia's western
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Estimate of the Scottish Nobility During the Minority of James VI
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Etiquette in Australia 1902
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Everyday Fashions of the 20th Century
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Examples of Handwriting 1550-1650
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First published in 1965 and now in the fourth reprint. The family history journal 'Metropolitan' (April 1997) described it a 'a must for anyone contemplating transcribing old documents'. Divided into ...
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Explorations in Australia: The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 1858-1862
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Compiled by the Rev. Joseph Hunter and transcribed and published in 1894-6 by The Harleain Society in four large volumes. Completely filled with pedigres of families, chiefly from Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire …
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Family History on the Cheap
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Family History on the Net 2011/12
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The internet has become the main source of information for researching family history, but where do you look? This guide is a collection of websites divided into topics ...
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Family History on the Web
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It is impossible and not even necessary to cover the huge range of family history sites on the Internet. This booklet aims to give you the skills to locate these sites for yourself via a few key sites, as well as some strategies to improve your skills at using the sites ...
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Family History Research Manager
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From the moment we begin research on our family, we start collecting notes, certificates, photocopies, photographs and more. Many of us have a regrettable tendency to take notes on scraps ...
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Family Names and Their Story
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Written by S. Baring-Gould, and publish in 1910, this reference work still provides invaluable information, not only for Scottish, but for English surname origins as well.
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Family Reunion: Everything You Need to Know to Plan Unforgettable Get-Togethers
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Today more than ever, families are scattered to the wind. Yet perhaps for this very reason, families have also been getting together for reunions in unprecedented numbers. Planning a reunion ...
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Fatal Lights: Two Strange Tragedies of the Sea
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Feeling Comfortable with FamilySearch
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FamilySearch is the LDS website that allows access to their indexes online. The indexes online are only a small part of the website and the booklet reveals the other useful features. A number of tips and strategies to use the search engines effectively are revealed ...
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Ferry to Tasmania: A Short History
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Fifty Years Afloat: The Autobiography of a Ferryman
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'Fifty Years Afloat' details the Rottnest and Swan River ferry boats and the men who ran them.P Hugh Cameron's interesting and well-written account of his experience in small vessels, particularly ...
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Fighting Nineteenth: History of the 19th Infantry Battalion AIF 1915-1918
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Almost 5000 men served in the 19th Battalion, AIF during its three and half years as one of the four battalions of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Division.Using official war diaries and input from individual diaries, letters and photos provided by families, the authors have shown how men served ...
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Finding Your Famous and Infamous Ancestors
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Now you can find out if those wild rumors about the rogues, blue bloods, or celebrities on your family tree are actually true. Genealogist to the stars Rhonda ...
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Finlayson: A Family History of Scottish Pioneers of South Australia, William and Helen Finlayson and Their Known Descendants
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William came to be a missionary to the aborigines. This goal was only partly carried out, but he and his family his play a significant part in early church life ...
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Fishing and Fishermen: A Guide for Family Historians
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Flak: True Stories From the Men Who Flew in World War Two
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Michael Veitch has had a life-long obsession with the aircraft of the Second World War and the men that crewed them. Over the years his experience taught him ...
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Flynn of the Inland
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Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush Hospitals. His magnificent vision, formed as he travelled on the ...
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Folk Lore and Genealogies of Uppermost Nithsdale
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This is a history of that region with particular emphasis upon the popular folklore of the area and the families who inhabited it. There is material on the town pipers, on Covenanters or Presbyterians and on the greater and lesser families of Upper Nithsdale. The genealogies of the following families ...
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Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters
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For centuries they have faced capture, torture, even death, to be with the ones they love. For centuries they have been the unsung heroines of war. This is their story. Spanning ...
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For Empire: Victoria's First Expeditionary Force to the Motherland
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Facsimile. A reprint of the souvenir booklet published in September 1914, to acknowledge the departure of the Victorian unit en route to Egypt. The book has photos of every officer ...
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For Valour: Victoria Cross and Medal of Honor Battles
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The history of the Victoria Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor is a history of heroism and sacrifice. Fascinating and awe-inspiring, from the battlefields of the Crimean War through to the Second World War, these are the stories behind some of the most remarkable feats of bravery ever recorded.
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Forensic Genealogy
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Forensic scientists and genealogists share the same goal – to find out who was who, and who did what and when. In explaining how to analyze photographs, to mine databases, and to use DNA analysis to reveal family history ...
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Forever Forward: The History of the 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF 1940-45
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During its lifetime the 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion took on the strength of 151 officers and 2509 men. Of this total, about one in three members of the battalion became ...
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Forgotten Families of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire
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Forgotten Men: The Australian Army Veterinary Corps 1909-1946
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Forgotten Men is the long overdue account of the significant contribution to the Australian Army of the Australian Army Veterinary Corps in two world wars. One of the army’s smallest and least recognised corps, its humble beginnings and quiet work in the background belie the crucial role of the Corps ...
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Forgotten Valour: The Story of Arthur Sullivan VC, Shy War Hero
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'Forgotten Valour' is the story of Arthur Sullivan VC and other Australian soldiers who enlisted in the Great War but went on to fight in the Russian Civil War ...
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Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle for Britain
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'It is more powerful than any drama, more convincing than any fiction'. Drawing material from London's Imperial War Museum's extensive archive, the author brings together voices from both sides ...
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Forty-Five Years Experience in North Queensland 1861-1905
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'Forty-Five Years Experience in North Queensland' is the written memoirs of W.R.O. Hill from when he was a young boy in England from 1844, through to his experiences in Queensland in 1861 to 1905.
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Forward Undeterred: The History of the 23rd Battalion 1915-1918
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Forward Undeterred' describes the formation of the 23rd Battalion in early 1915, and its training at Broadmeadows and Egypt prior to landing at Gallipoli in September 1915. For the next ...
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Foulis Castle and the Monroes of Lower Iveagh
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Alexander Mackenzie’s massive study of the Monroes was published as The History of the Munros of Foulis, and has from its publication to the 21st century been one of the most respected and consulted accounts of this venerable Scottish family ...
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Founders of Australia and their Descendants
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Founders of Australia is two books in one volume - a valuable account of exploration and foundation of European settlement in Australia, together with a fine record of many pioneering families.
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Four Perthshire Families: Roger, Playfair, Constable, and Haldare of Barmony
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Written by Charles Rogers, and published in 1887, this is a history of four interrelated families: Roger, Playfair, Constable, and Haldane of Barmony -- all of whom held estates in Perthshire ...
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Frederick Matthias Alexander: A Family History
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The Alexander Technique is practised by many thousands of people throughout
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Fremantle Register of Ships Before 1900
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The information contained in this volume has been compiled using the Register of British Ships in Fremantle, Western Australia.
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Friedrich Wurfel Family History 1880-1982
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Beginning in Germany with Friedrich and his wife Friedrike in 1880, the book follows the long line of descendants through to South Australia in 1982.
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From the Australian Front 1917
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This publication includes over 120 pages of photographs and illustrations which depict the range of experiences of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corp in France. These include photos of the soldiers on the battle fronts, in the different seasons experienced, and in villages and towns such as Flanders ...
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From the Home Front to the Front Line: Images of the Great War
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Australia's greatest social upheaval, occurred between the years of 1914 and 1918. Few, if any families at all, remained untouched by the war, everyone seemed to know someone ...
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From Trench and Troopship: The Experience of the Australian Imperial Force 1914-1919
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The shipboard Between 1914 and 1919, every troopship leaving Australia or retuning to it produced a shipboard newspaper -- the first recorded was ‘The Latrine leader and W.C. Chronicle’, produced ...
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Fromelles
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On 19 July 1916, in the northern French village of Fromelles, Australia suffered its worst-ever military defeat when a British officer ordered 15,000 of our best and bravest to go 'over the top' and attack the German lines. Eight hours later, more than 5500 Diggers lay dead or wounded ...
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Gallipoli
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As a relatively young nation, there are few things that define us as a people more than the wars Australian's have fought in, and, in particular, the bloody battle on ...
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For the first time, the Gallipoli story is told in the words of the ordinary soldier fighting in the trenches, day by day starting with the landing on 25 April 1915 fright up to the last day on 20 December 1915 ...
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Gallipoli Doctors
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In what is a 'who's who' of the medical profession at war, LtCol Likeman has described in great detail the lives of the AIF doctors who laboured under harsh conditions at Gallipoli to tens to the wounded and sick. Each mini-biography details the professional life of the doctor concerned prior to the war and after, in addition, where doctors also served of the Western Front or in Palestine, their service history is also recorded.
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Gallipoli Encyclopedia
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Gallipoli has for over 90 years been a symbol of Australia's emergence to nationhood. The audacious gallantry of young Australians storming across the beach at Anzac Cove and then climbing ...
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Gallipoli Sniper: The Life of Billy Sing
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The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers, The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both sides. The most successful & feared sniper of the Gallipoli campaign wa a member of the Light Horseman from Queensland, Billy Sing.
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Gallipoli: Attack from the Sea
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The Gallipoli campaign of 1914–15 is one of the most discussed events of the First World War. Of particular fascination, and until now largely overlooked in historical accounts, are the considerable naval dimensions of the campaign ...
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Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore
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It was an adventure to die for. A daring attempt to force the Dardanelles and capture the Turkish capital Constantinople. For the Allies it was Trojan War and crusade combined ...
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Geelong Customs Register of Ships: Vessels Registered at the Port of Geelong, Victoria before 1900
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This title originally produced in 1969, has been reprinted with minor additions 2003. Nothing from the original volume has been deleted, but some information such as official numbers, name of ...
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Genealogical Collections Concerning the Scottish House of Edgar
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This interesting and unusual history is concerned with the southeast of Scotland and with several families who interacted with the Edgar family or who were involved in events associated with that family. The first and primary focus of the book is upon the Edgars of Wedderlie ...
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Genealogical Jargon for Family Historians
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Have you ever come across the term Apputenances, what about B., or Benefice? The list could go on ... DL, Familia, Muniments, Primogeniture, Sinister, Sep., or Ts.? ...
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Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and of the Family of Knox
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The family of Knox is an ancient one in Scotland. Overall, this is an extended history of the Knox families of Scotland, past and present to the late 19th century, with genealogical and historical information provided where applicable ...
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