Tracing Your Ancestors

A practical guide to researching ancestors from Northern Ireland's capital city.Straddling parts of Counties Antrim and Down, the city of Belfast has seen its fair share of history across the centuries....

The history of Ireland is one that was long dominated by the question of land ownership, with complex and often distressing tales over the centuries of dispossession and colonization, religious tensions,...

Scotland is a land with a proud and centuries long history that far pre-dates its membership of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Today in the 21st century it is also a land that has done much to make its historical records accessible, to help those with Caledonian ancestry trace their roots back to earlier times and a world long past.

Despite its Union with England and Wales in 1707, Scotland remained virtually independent from its partners in many ways, retaining its own legal system, its own state church, and its own education system.

In this, the fully updated second edition of his bestselling guide to researching Irish history using the internet, Chris Paton shows the extraordinary variety of sources that can now be accessed online.

* A practical guide for researchers who are beginning to explore British and Irish family history * Introduces all the major sources and explains how to use them * Provides tips for getting rapid results, lists of dos and don’ts, and solutions to common problems *Includes a directory of the essential sources for England, Scotland, Wales, Norther

* An essential guide to the history – and family history – of Glasgow * Concise, vivid account of how Glasgow grew into the city we know today * A compendium of all the sources family historians can use * Aimed at novices and experienced researchers alike * A fascinating insight into Glasgow, past and present

* Fully revised and updated second edition of highly illustrated handbook for anyone researching Northern Irish history and ancestry * Detailed, authoritative exploration of the collections held at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland * Guide to other essential sources including church, land and valuation records and school registers * I

Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like...

This fully revised second edition of Ian Maxwell’s Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to Scotland’s long, complex and fascinating story. It is aimed primarily...