Tracing Your Family History on the Internet: A Guide for Family Historians

by Chris Paton

Overview

This fully revised second edition of Chris Paton’s best-selling guide is essential reading if you want to make effective use of the internet in your family history research. Every day new records and resources are placed online and new methods of sharing research and communicating across cyberspace become available, and his handbook is the perfect introduction to them. He has checked and updated all the links and other sources, added new ones, written a new introduction and substantially expanded the social networking section.

Never before has it been so easy to research family history using the internet, but he demonstrates that researchers need to take a cautious approach to the information they gain from it. They need to ask, where did the original material come from and has it been accurately reproduced, why was it put online, what has been left out and what is still to come? As he leads the researcher through the multitude of resources that are now accessible online, he helps to answer these questions. He shows what the internet can and cannot do, and he warns against the various traps researchers can fall into along the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783030569
Publisher:	Pen and Sword
Publication date:	04/02/2014
Series:	Tracing your Ancestors
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Chris Paton is a genealogist and writer based in Ayrshire. He runs the Scotland’s Greatest Story research service at www.scotlandsgreateststory.co.uk. He is a regular writer for several British and Irish genealogy magazines, runs the British GENES news and events blog at www.BritishGENES.blogspot.com, and gives regular talks to local family history societies and internationally.

Table of Contents

Glossary vi

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Gateways and Institutions 1

Chapter 2 Genealogical Essentials 14

Chapter 3 Occupational Records 38

Chapter 4 England 59

Chapter 5 Wales 123

Chapter 6 Scotland 134

Chapter 7 Northern Ireland 165

Chapter 8 Crown Dependencies 173

Chapter 9 Empire and Migration 176

Chapter 10 Social Networking 186

Further Reading 191

Index 192