Tracing Your Family Tree Book

	Introduction	6
	First steps	8
	How to begin	10
	Family photographs	14
	A basic family tree	16
	Names	20
	Research skills	22
	Keeping records	24
	Interviewing people	26
	Back to the early 1800s	28
	Certificates after 1837	30
	Other indexes at the Family Record Centre	34
	Censuses	36
	The International Genealogical Index and other indexes	40
	Published material	42
	Using the Internet	44
	Wills, administrations and death duties	48
	Inquests	52
	Newspapers and periodicals	54
	Going back to 1538	56
	Record offices, history centres and libraries	58
	Births, christenings, marriages and burials in parish registers	62
	Other parish records	66
	The poor of the parish	68
	Orphans and foundlings	72
	Records for other Christian denominations	74
	Maps	78
	Other countries in the British Isles	80
	Welsh records	82
	Scottish records	84
	Irish records	88
	Channel Islands records	92
	Isle of Man records	94
	Working lives	96
	Education	98
	Apprenticeships	102
	Guilds and freemen	104
	The professions	106
	Other occupations	110
	Licences	114
	Elections, poll books and electoral registers	116
	Trade unions and friendly societies	118
	Bankruptcy and insolvency	120
	Physical and mental illness	122
	For Crown and Country	126
	Members of the armed forces	128
	Army records	131
	Royal Air Force records	134
	The militia, posse comitatis and volunteers	136
	Royal Navy records	138
	Merchant Navy records	142
	Other maritime occupations	144
	Lifecycle checklist	146
	Law and property	148
	Researching legal records	150
	Church courts	152
	Manorial records	154
	Crime and punishment	156
	Transportation records	162
	Equity law: property and money	164
	Land ownership and wealth	166
	Taxes	172
	Customs and excise and the Coastguard	174
	Rich man, poor man checklist	176
	Migrant ancestors	178
	Researching migrant ancestors	180
	Jewish ancestors	182
	French ancestors	184
	German and Dutch ancestors	186
	Black ancestors	188
	Indian ancestors	190
	Other overseas ancestors	192
	Gypsies and other travellers	194
	Emigrants	196
	Researching emigrant ancestors	198
	India and the Far East	201
	North America	204
	Canada	210
	The Caribbean	212
	Australia	214
	New Zealand	216
	Africa	218
	Other British territories	220
	British communities overseas	220
	Appendices	224
	Sources for pre-1538 research	226
	Paleography	230
	Latin	232
	Name changes and important dates	234
	Heraldry	236
	Dates, money and measurements	239
	Writing family history	240
	Timeline	244
	Specialist museums and libraries	248
	Directories and ratebooks	249
	Books	250
	Addresses and websites	252
	Picture acknowledgements	253
	Index	254