Tracing Your House History

A Guide For Family Historians

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Reference, Genealogy, History
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Author: Blanchard, Gill ISBN: 9781783376445
Publisher: Pen and Sword Publication: April 1, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Blanchard, Gill
ISBN: 9781783376445
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Publication: April 1, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house of their home needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor house or on a planned estate, in a laborers cottage, a tied house, a Victorian terrace, a twentieth-century council house or a converted warehouse this is the book for you. In a series of concise, information-filled chapters, Gill Blanchard shows you how to trace the history of your house or flat, how to gain an insight into the lives of the people who lived in it before you, and how to fit it into the wider history of your neighborhood.A wealth of historical evidence is available in libraries, archives and record offices, in books and online, and this is the ideal introduction to it. Gill Blanchard explores these resources in depth, explains their significance and directs the researcher to the most relevant, and revealing, aspects of them. She makes the research process understandable, accessible and fun, and in the process, she demystifies the sometimes-obscure language and layout of the documents that researchers will come up against.

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Anyone who wants to find out about the history of their house of their home needs to read this compact, practical handbook. Whether you live in a manor house or on a planned estate, in a laborers cottage, a tied house, a Victorian terrace, a twentieth-century council house or a converted warehouse this is the book for you. In a series of concise, information-filled chapters, Gill Blanchard shows you how to trace the history of your house or flat, how to gain an insight into the lives of the people who lived in it before you, and how to fit it into the wider history of your neighborhood.A wealth of historical evidence is available in libraries, archives and record offices, in books and online, and this is the ideal introduction to it. Gill Blanchard explores these resources in depth, explains their significance and directs the researcher to the most relevant, and revealing, aspects of them. She makes the research process understandable, accessible and fun, and in the process, she demystifies the sometimes-obscure language and layout of the documents that researchers will come up against.

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