Genealogy Reviews
Ancestors Magazine
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Ancestors is leading family history magazine published by Wharncliffe Publishing Limited and The National Archives. Click here to subscribe January 2008 Business matters, poll books, parish registers, and not so ordinary people Kathy Chater gives the low-down on the latest CDs. READ FULL REVIEW... November 2007 If you know where an ancestor lived, parish records, local directories and census returns are good hunting places, and many are now available on CD. Another good source for family historians is wills, and again more have been put on disc recently. READ FULL REVIEW... August 2007 Next to finding a mention of a forebear's name is the thrill of learning more about where and how they lived. Maps, contemporary reports, historical background, architectural notes, property descriptions and much more can all build up a picture. READ FULL REVIEW... June 2007 Professional people, poll books and parish registers all appear in this month's CD round-up by Kathy Charter. READ FULL REVIEW... March 2007 Kathy Chater looks at some recent CDs which capture the wealth of data on people and places through the ages. READ FULL REVIEW... September 2006 NAMES AND PLACES - Kathy Charter takes a journey round some recent CDs
Past records, census indexes, home counties directories, and more ... READ FULL REVIEW... May 2006
Describes the careers of 72 heroes of the 19th Century, and also includes portraits... READ FULL REVIEW... June 2005 People and Places in Trade and Signs of the Times Trade directories contain descriptions of the various communities within their area, plus listings of gentry, officials, and tradespeople... READ FULL REVIEW... April 2005 Taken from the Overseas Births, Marriages and Death Series at the Family Records Centre, First World War: Army, Army Officer and Navy War Deaths provides an index to those who died in the Great War... READ FULL REVIEW... February 2005 The 1841 Census contains less useful information for family historians than later ones, but it is nevertheless worth investigating... READ FULL REVIEW... January 2005
County or regional trade directories normally list people in charge of different businesses... READ FULL REVIEW... December 2004
Those inspired by last month's Remembrance Day events to research their military forebears have a number of recent releases to help them... READ FULL REVIEW... November 2004 Cambridge Graduates in Stuart England
Until the early nineteenth century, there were only two universities in England: Oxford and Cambridge. The sons of the well-to-do were usually sent to one or the other... READ FULL REVIEW...
Relatively few records survive from the medieval period; but as the introduction to Wills in the York Registry 1389-1652 says, given the turmoil... READ FULL REVIEW... Toffs - Debrett's Peerage Ireland and Scotland 1826
S&N has recently produced three discs detailing aristocratic and upper-class people... READ FULL REVIEW...
Arthur Charles Fox-Davies' Armorial Families (£19.95) is an alphabetic listing of british families, with their various coats of arms and mottoes in 1902... READ FULL REVIEW... Parish Registers - Leeds, Yorkshire 1619-1695
Contains baptisms, marriages and burials... READ FULL REVIEW... October 2004
1806 Army List lists officers in the regular army, as well as officers holding local rank abroad. In 1806... READ FULL REVIEW... September 2004
Slater's 1850 Directory and Pigots & Co's 1830 Directories Combined Edition both include a number of counties for their respective years... READ FULL REVIEW...
RootsMagic's wall charts...are impressive...You can also produce printed books... MORE August 2004
Shropshire 1871 Census Images contains digitized copies of the original pages... READ FULL REVIEW... July 2004
Somerset Electoral Register: East and West Divisions 1832 is a digitally enhanced copy of the list of those entitled to vote in 1832, following the great Reform Act... READ FULL REVIEW...
In England and Wales...the responsibility of ensuring that people who claim the right to bear arms are entitled to do so has no statutory authority... READ FULL REVIEW... The Imperial Dictionary of Univeral Biography is one of those splendid Victorian undertakings, an attempt to summarise all those who had contributed to the development of Western civilisation up to the nineteenth century... READ FULL REVIEW... June 2004
1881 Army List contains much more than contemporary army officers down to the rank of lieutenant with the dates of their promotions... READ FULL REVIEW...
The Knights of England, Scotland, Ireland and Knight Bachelors contains a complete record of the knights of the orders of chivalry in the British Isles... READ FULL REVIEW...
The Navy List 1850 contains additional information beyond naval officers and the dates of their seniority, which takes the careers of some back into the late eighteenth century... READ FULL REVIEW... May 2004
As anyone with ancestors in the London area knows, research there can be a nightmare. There are different records offices for the City of London, Westminster, Greater London, parishes in the pre-1888 counties of Surrey and Kent, as well as a multitude of local history libraries... READ FULL REVIEW...
Persons of Quality: People who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations: 1600-1700 was originally compiled in 1875 and is long out of print... MORE April 2004 Landowners in the Nineteenth Century In response to a question asked in the House of Lords in 1872, returns of landowners in England and Wales (except for London) were compiled and published... READ FULL REVIEW...
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