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Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office – Amanda Bevan’s indispensable guide for family historians researching British records, sixth revised edition published by the Public Record Office, Richmond, in 2002. A thick paperback covering censuses, civil registration and the many other records held at Kew. Good condition with shelf wear to the corners and a previous owner’s name.
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Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office by Amanda Bevan is the standard guide to using the records of the Public Record Office, now The National Archives, for family history research. First published by HMSO in 1981, it went through several editions, and this is the sixth revised edition, published by the Public Record Office in Richmond, Surrey, in 2002.
Tracing Your Ancestors explains how the Public Record Office and the Family Records Centre worked and then takes the reader through the main sources for tracing ancestors, beginning with the censuses of 1801 to 1901 and civil registration of births, marriages and deaths, and moving on to the many other classes of record held at Kew. Each section gives practical guidance on what the records contain, where to find them and how to use them.
Although some practical details have since changed with the move of records online, Tracing Your Ancestors remains a valuable explanation of what records survive and how they are arranged, and it is still widely used by genealogists.
An essential reference for family historians, genealogy societies and South Africans tracing British forebears.
Condition – Good
Thick paperback with shelf wear to the corners and light rubbing to the covers and edges. The title page carries a previous owner’s name in ink and pencilled initials. The page edges are clean and the binding is firm.
