Liverpool & S W Lancs F.H.S. General

1. South-East England And East Anglia Ref: 1

£4.30

2. The Midlands And Northern England Ref: 2

£4.30

3. South-West England The Marches & Wales Ref: 3

£4.30

4. Gazetteer Of England And Wales Ref: 4

£4.30

CENSUS RETURNS 1841-1891 IN MICROFORM: A Directory to Local Holdings in Great Britain; Channel Islands; Isle of Man. 6th edition. Jeremy Gibson & Elizabeth Hampson Ref: UK-BK-283
The original books of enumerators' returns for the censuses of 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891 for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are at the Public Record Office at Kew, and those for Scotland are at New Register House in Edinburgh. Fortunately they were microfilmed some time ago, which has made it possible for libraries and record offices throughout the country to acquire copy films for their own areas. This Directory shows the extent to which they have done so for the six censuses which have been released so far under the '100-year' rule.
£3.95

CORONERS' RECORDS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. 2nd edition. Jeremy Gibson & Colin D. Rogers Ref: UK-BK-284
This guide is an attempt to itemise all extant coroner's records in England and Wales which are now in public repositories. It is intended not only for genealogists, but also for a number of other potential users of these records, such as historians, archivists, sociologists, criminologists, police, and for the coroners themselves, who are not always aware of the records which their offices have generated over time. Although there are special rules concerning access to records less than 75 years old, and material in some areas is regularly being destroyed once it is over 15 years old, a wealth of information may still be available.
£3.95

Dictionary of Medical & Related Terms For the Family Historian Ref: UK-BK-505
Joan Grundy has forty years' experience as a midwife and practice nurse. During thirty of these years, she has researched her own family history and has been involved with several family history societies. Her dictionary is designed to help fellow family historians to understand medical terms that appear in parish registers, on death certificates, and other 18th and 19th century sources.
The observations of early medical men were particularly thorough as they tried to determine the cause of diseases. They listed every symptom the patients described and compared them with their colleagues' cases. However, despite being very good at recognising symptoms they had little understanding of the causes and had relatively few effective treatments to offer.
For many of the diseases described in this dictionary, Joan has given an outline of the symptoms and sometimes gory ailments of our ancestors. Flesh is put on the bones of our forebears and provides an insight into their lives, social conditions and deaths.

£7.50

DNA FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS. AIan Savin Ref: UK-BK-285
Over the last few years, genealogists have learned through the media of scientific breakthroughs in using genetics, especially DNA, to prove family relationships. Both present-day and historical connections have been resolved using DNA. Not surprisingly, family historians have speculated amongst themselves whether such techniques could be useful for their type of research. This book sets out to explain this area of genetics in a language easily understood by a genealogist or any lay person, and to discuss how far this knowledge could be used to extend family history research
£4.60

ENGLISH GENEALOGY: A Bibliography. 3rd edition. Stuart A Raymond Ref: UK-BK-286
The range of publications concerned with genealogy is enormous, and rapidly expanding. This bibliography is intended as a guide to the most useful general works for genealogists researching in all parts of England, and is national in scope. Works dealing with specific localities are (or will be) listed in the county volumes of the the British Genealogical Bibliography and Genealogists' Library Guide series (see elsewhere on this page).
£2.90

FIRST NAME VARIANTS. 2nd edition. Alan Bardsley Ref: UK-BK-287
When searching for records of particular individuals in original documents or indexes, most researchers would be familiar with an Elizabeth appearing as a Betty or Bessy. The may be less familiar with it appearing as Tissy or Veta, and there are at least 230 other ways that Elizabeth has been recorded. Over time first names have suffered from many variations, both accidentally and deliberately introduced, sometimes making it difficult to track down a particular person. This book is a compilation of first name diminutives and variants, and links together some 8,000 variants linked to 1,300 standard names. Coverage is for the English-speaking world of the 17th to 19th centuries, together the commonest Welsh, Irish and Scottish links.
£5.65

Family Feuds, An Introduction to Chancery Proceedings. Susan T. Moore Ref: UK-BK-500
This booklet is in two parts; the first part is intended to whet the appetite of the amateur family historian by describing why the records of the Court of Chancery and other equity courts are worth looking at, and answering such questions as what sort of cases were brought to these courts, what sort of people brought them, and how easy are they to read? The second part described the records themselves and the indexes and calendars that will enable you to look at them, together with some guidelines on searching them effectively.
£6.70

A GLOSSARY OF HOUSEHOLD, FARMING AND TRADE TERMS FROM PROBATE INVENTORIES. 3rd edition. Rosemary Milward (Derbyshire Record Society, Ref: UK-BK-288
This is an explanation of terms found in Derbyshire probate inventories from the 16th and 17th centuries, containing some 1,500 terms likely to be of general interest. It is the only separately published glossary of the many technical terms found in both farming and trade inventories, and provides a convenient shortcut to definitions that might otherwise have to be sought from dialect dictionaries or technical manuals. Many of the words were used throughout England at that period, but are now obsolete or spelt differently. It booklet can help anyone looking at wills, inventories, and other trade records. For example, a cousin is a kinsman, sometimes also used for a nephew, niece, or even a great friend; a crew yard was a farmyard; and a crone is an old sheep unfit to bear more lambs.
£4.30

Hearth Tax / Association Oath Rolls Etc Ref: UK-BK-289

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Immigrants & Aliens (Guide To Sources on U.K. Immigration & Citizenship) Roger Kershaw & Mark Pearsall Ref: UK-BK-291
Essential reading for anyone researching ancestors who came to Britain from overseas. It provides invaluable guidance on the wealth of records charting the development of the U.K's immigration and citizenship policy from medieval to modern times.
£10.99

LAND AND WINDOW TAX ASSESSMENTS, 1690-1950. 2nd edition. Jeremy Gibson, Mervyn Medlycott & Dennis Mills Ref: UK-BK-292
The Land Tax was introduced in the late 17th century and was only finally abolished in the mid=20th. Its value to family historians (and indeed many others) is that it lists, year by year, the names of the proprietors of land in each parish, and also (in theory) the names of the actual occupiers. It can also give some indication of the economic standing of those named. The same can be said for Window Taxes, although not so many of the latter records have survived. A county-by-county listing shows the dates and whereabouts of Land and Window Tax returns for England and Wales, and associated sources.
£4.45

A LATIN GLOSSARY: For family and local historians. (FFHS, 2002). Ref: UK-BK-293
Prior to the 1730s many parish registers and legal documents were written in Latin, which can be something of a stumbling block to researchers who are unfamiliar with the language or handwriting. This booklet aims to serve as a glossary for most of the more common words which occur in parish registers, wills, and the simpler types of title deeds and manorials records, and to be helpful to beginners as well as to those with some knowledge of Latin.
£1.95

LOCAL CENSUS LISTINGS, 1522-1930: Holdings in the British Isles. 3rd edition. Jeremy Gibson & Mervyn Medlycott Ref: UK-BK-294
There are an unexpected quantity of 'quasi-censuses' pre-dating the decennial national census, whose records survive in unexpected quantity. They include locally retained census enumeration lists made for 1801-1831 which included names of individuals, and many others in earlier centuries. For the first time these are comprehensively listed for the whole of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
£3.45

MARRIAGE AND CENSUS INDEXES FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS. 8th edition. Jeremy Gibson & Elizabeth Hampson Ref: UK-BK-298
Many indexes to marriage records and the census returns have been compiled by family history societies and private individuals, and a number of these have been published. This Guide offers a comprehensive listing of all such indexes (both published and unpublished) which are available for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and the off-shore islands. This eighth edition of this invaluable guide has been thoroughly revised and updated.
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MARRIAGE LAWS, RITES, RECORDS & CUSTOMS: Was Your Ancestor Really Married?. Colin R Chapman & Pauline M Litton Ref: UK-BK-299
This book contains all that the family historian should ever need to know about marriage laws from the 16th to the 20th centuries, with sections on how to interpret these laws, the procedures and records necessary, and the different customs of Anglicans and Non-Conformists in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The chapters on British courtship and customs give a wonderful view of days gone by, concluding with methods and records of divorce. With comprehensive notes, references and index.
£6.00

Poll Books C1696-1872 Ref: UK-BK-122

£2.90

PROBATE JURISDICTIONS: Where to Look for Wills. 5th edition. Jeremy Gibson & Else Churchill Ref: UK-BK-450
Wills and their associated records are amongst the most useful and important records for family and local historians. The new (5th) edition of this invaluable guide is designed for the newcomer to local and family history, naand its purpose is to suggest where to start looking for wills and their assocaited records..It provides simply-presented information on ecclesiastical courts and their jurisdiction (with maps), the locations of wills both pre- and post-1858, and details of indexes and other printed finding aids. periods of coverage, indexes and other finding aids. The coverage has now been extended to cover England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
£4.85

THE PROTESTATION RETURNS 1641-42 AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY LISTINGS. Jeremy Gibson & Alan Dell Ref: UK-BK-451
Nearly all the records listed in this guide relate to 1641 and 1642, generated inthe tense months preceding and during the start of the Civil War. The Protestation Oath was a pledge of loyalty, ostensibly to the King but in fact to Parliament, which was supposed to be taken by every adult male. From around the same period there are other listings of Subsidies, Assessments and Grants which can be useful to the family historian. This guide contains a comprehensive list of all such records which are known to have survived for every county in England and Wales.
£4.35

REGISTRATION DISTRICTS. 3rd edition. Ray Wiggins Ref: UK-BK-456
Originally published by the compiler under the title St. Catherine's House Indexes, this is an Alphabetical List of over 650 districts with details of counties, sub-districts and adjacent districts. Essential information for anyone using General Register Office indexes for England and Wales, and useful for census returns which use the same districts. There is also an alphabetical list of sub-districts showing which district they are in.
£2.95

SPECIALIST INDEXES FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS. 2nd edition. Jeremy Gibson & Elizabeth Hampson Ref: UK-BK-453
The main purpose of this Guide is to bring to the attention of family and local historians the existence of finding aids to classes of records not already covered by this series. it should be remembered that most of the indexes have not been compiled with genealogists particularly in mind, and so are often unlikely to provide purely genealogical information. However, they should provide a rich quarry for the family historian seeking to flesh out the bones of his pedigree and ancestors.

£4.45

TRACING THE HISTORY OF HOUSES. Bill Breckon, Jeffrey Parker & Martin Andrew. New edition Ref: UK-BK-504
This well-illustrated book outlines the history and development of English homes, from the Saxon aisled hall up to the present day. The changing styles of architecture and building materials are covered, and special note made of regional variations. There is a step-by-step guide to accurately dating houses, which includes walls and roofs, windows and doors, floors, fireplaces, staircases and chimneys. Originally published in 1991, this new edition has been completely revised, updated and expanded, and now includes more information and illustrations on the 20th century. A5 paperback, 218 pages.

£11.20