Family History, Tracing Ancestors

'This well-known author has produced yet another excellent guide for researching ancestors who have served in the Army. The book is an ideal text f...

Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors is a volume in the series of city ancestral guides published by Pen & Sword for readers and researchers who want...

Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century an...

The recent past is so often neglected when people research their family history, yet it can be one of the most rewarding periods to explore, and so...

Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a po...

The Family Historian has a gap in the bookshelf that has been awaiting this new book for many years. It provides the first ever detailed guide to t...

This compact book reproduces fifty-two memorials in Latin taken from churches situated largely in the West Country.  Each memorial is accompanied b...

The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons, mainly volunteers, trav...

Jonathan Scott's Family History Web Directory is an information-packed reference guide that distils the best of the internet into one easy-to-use f...

Much family history focuses on digging around archives and web searches. Here, Karen Foy shows that our attics and cupboards can often hide a treas...

The first Poor Law was enacted in 1601, and this system of social security, which was supposed to ensure that those who could not work had food, dr...

'A powerful account of Teege's struggle for resolution and redemption.' IndependentAn international bestseller, this is the extraordinary and movin...

An unputdownable tale of one man''s quest to recover his family''s property, plundered by the Nazis. Menachem Kaiser''s brilliantly told story is ...

''Hard-hitting and hilarious'' - James Acaster''Funny, moving and compelling'' - Mike CostelloA heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting ...

The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with the Arabian Sea. It opened the...

Since her groundbreaking memoir In My Father's House, which recounts an agonizing break from fundamentalist polygamy, Dorothy Allred Solomon has co...