Tracing your ancestors using the census, a guide for family historians, Emma Jolly
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Tracing your ancestors using the census, a guide for family historians, Emma Jolly
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
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Tracing your ancestors using the census
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Emma Jolly
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a guide for family historians
Summary
FAMILY HISTORY. The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian in mind, and it is packed with advice on how to explore and get the most from the census records. As well as describing the modern censuses, it provides information on the less-known censuses dating from before 1841, and it covers the records of all the constituent parts of the British Isles. It is an essential introduction and tool for anyone who is researching the life and times of an ancestor. Emma Jolly describes how and why census records came to be created, then looks in detail at how to search the main censuses from 1841 to 1911. Each chapter covers the relevant historical context, compares online and other sources, identifies problems like lost or damaged records, and shows how the specific information in the census concerned can be interpreted effectively
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