Discover Gloucestershire Ancestors: Your guide to the archives

Description

By: Elizabeth Jack

The Discover Gloucestershire Ancestors volumes are the only Family History guides using Gloucestershire sources and hold the key to unlock the treasures in the archives.
Both volumes offer hope to those who have hit the brick wall. Both are full of tables, illustrations, maps, examples and include a full surname, place name and subject index

Volume 1 covers the basics for beginners

Volume 2 provides new sources for those seeking background information

Volume 1

1. Gloucester – Born and Bred
2. Civil Registration
3. The Census
4. Parish Registers
5. Nonconformity
6. Probate
7. More on Births and Infancy
8. More on Marriage
9. More on Deaths
10. Coroners’ Records
11. Sessions and Assizes
12. Gaols and Houses of Correction

Volume 2

1. The Parish Chest
2. Education Records
3. Apprentices and Freemen
4. Military Service
5. The Workhouse
6. Medical Records
7. Emigration
8. Gloucestershire Maps
9. Directories, Poll Books & Electoral Registers
10. Taxes and Tithes
11. Manorial Records
12. Estate Records
13. Newspapers and Periodicals