Other Publications

(Linda Hammond)  Mind mapping is a visual way to organise your thoughts and ideas.  Mind maps are simple to use and can be created quickly. Because family history research involves searching for, and then looking at, many different sources of information,…..

(Anthony E Trice)  A beginner’s guide to researching family history, concentrating on Internet sites that can be used free of charge, thus enabling good progress to be made without incurring significant costs.  The book concentrates mainly on English and Welsh…..

(Ian H Waller)  If your research has not found information about your ancestors, then it is likely they were nonconformists. This immensely detailed book will provide all the help you need to find the information you are searching for.  Following…..

(Ian H Waller)  For centuries, the lives of our ancestors were controlled by the lord of the manor, which continued until their final demise in 1922.  Manorial records are an important source of information, providing a fascinating insight of the…..

(Jonathan Oates)  Family History should reveal more than just facts and dates, lists of names and places.  It should bring ancestors alive in the context of their times and the surroundings they knew.  Research into local history records is one…..

(Nat Alcock)   Title deeds are perhaps the most numerous surviving sources of historical evidence, but also one of the most neglected.  The author of this book aims to help the growing army of enthusiastic researchers to use these documents. A…..

(John Wintrip)  This period is before the censuses and civil registration, and so more difficult to research. The book provides a description of aspects of  life in the Georgian period, and a detailed guide to the variety of the genealogically…..

(Susan T Moore)  The records of the Courts of Equity, which deal with cases of fairness rather than the law, are among the most detailed, extensive and revealing of all the legal documents historians can consult, yet they are often…..

(Susan T Moore)  ‘Chancery Proceedings’ has become a generic term that encompasses the records of all the courts of equity. The book is in two parts, the first part is intended to whet the appetite of the amateur family historian…..

(Stuart A Raymond)  The aim of this book is to identify the sources needed to trace Catholic family and local history in England and Wales. It begins by outlining the history and structure of English Catholicism.  Sources are scattered in…..

(Angela Smith & Neil Bertram)  This is not a book listing names but a huge source of references between 1066 and 2021.  It enables the researcher to link dates connected with their ancestral research to historical events of all sorts……

(Stuart A Raymond)  The records of parish, county, and diocesan administration, of the courts, of the national government, and of private estates, all have something to tell us about the history of a locality, which can assist with our understanding…..

(compiled by D T Barriskill)  This book reviews the collection of both manuscripts and printed books dealing with marine insurance and associated matters.  Perhaps the most important is the Register, an annual list of vessels giving many details of the…..

(Trevor Yorke)  The local church is a familiar landmark in every town, city and village.  But how many people actually understand the reason for it being built in that particular place, how it was constructed, or why it was decorated…..

(Stan Yorke)  For many centuries waterwheels provided the only source of power available to man apart from farm animals and his own sweat.  Used on these islands for at least 2,000 years, they were joined in the 12th century by…..

(Published 1986) (Rosemary Milward) Derbyshire Record Society Occasional Paper No 1. A listing of words found in the wills and inventories from Chesterfield from the period 1521 to 1700, and no longer used today. Although the sources of these terms…..