The Oxford guide to family history

著者

• Hey, David

書誌事項

The Oxford guide to family history

David Hey

Oxford University Press, 1993

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-236) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Aimed at those wishing to discover more about their ancestors, this book offers advice on tracing a family tree. The author advises on how to get started, where to look for records, and how to decipher old handwriting. He also suggests ways of finding out about ordinary peole down the centuries; their ways of life, professions, and so on. Family history is a subject with broad concerns, including the origin, spread, and sometimes the decline and disappearance of families. The work of social historians is therefore of great interest, whether dealing with the size of families, the ages at which people married, or the mobility of the population. David Hey highlights these aspects of social history that are most relevant to family history research and suggests lines of enquiry that may be followed with profit and enjoyment by family historians - the past and present distribution of surnames, the stability of certain families, and the mobility of others.

目次

• Part 1 The study of family history. Part 2 Family names: the origins of surnames
• the etymology of surnames
• early immigrants' surnames
• christian names
• surnames in the 17th century
• locating the home of a family name. Part 3 Mobility and stability: before 1800 - old patterns of movement, early immigration, residential stability
• after 1800 - mobility, emigration, stability. Part 4 Family and society: before 1800 - the nuclear family, servants and apprentices, marriages, births and deaths, kinship and inheritance, social mobility
• after 1800 - marriages, births and deaths, the landed aristocracy and the gentry, farmers, servants and labourers, accommodation in an industrial society. Part 5 A guide to the records: getting started
• civil registration
• census returns
• trade and commercial directories
• parish registers
• records of Protestant nonconformity
• records of Roman Catholicism
• records of Jewish congregations
• probate records
• manorial and estate records
• enclosure awards, tithe awards, and land tax assessments
• poor law records
• military records
• apprenticeship and Freeman records
• hearth tax and protestation returns
• lay subsidiaries and poll taxes
• reading old documents.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA19929115
• ISBN:
  • 0198691777
• LCCN: 92018524
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: x, 246 p., [12] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 26 cm.
• 分類:
  • LCC : CS9
  • DC20 : 929/.1/072
  • NDC9 : 288.2
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Genealogy -- Methodology