Books

Beginners

  • "Getting Started in Family History" part of the Public Record Office Pocket Guide series
    ISBN: 1 873162 87 1
  • "The Joys of Family History" by Simon Fowler,
    (The Public Record Office)
    ISBN: 1903365317
  • "Family Records Centre Guide to Family History"
    ISBN: 1 873162 804
  • "Reader’s Digest - Explore your Family’s Past"
    ISBN: 0276426479
  • "Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors: A Guide to Ancestry Research in the Scottish Record Office"
    ISBN 0 11 495865 3
    Available from the National Archives of Scotland

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Birth, Marriages and Deaths

  • "Public Record Office Pocket Guide to Family History: Using Birth, Marriage and Death Records".
    ISBN: 1 873162 88 X
  • "Jock Tamson’s Bairns: A history of the records of the General Register Office for Scotland"
    ISBN: 1 874451 591
    Available from the GROS websiteExternal website - opens in a new window

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Census

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Emigration

  • "Emigrants and Expats" by Roger Kershaw
    (Public Record Office)
    ISBN: 1903365325 - available from The National Archives bookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • "Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors" by Guy Grannum.
    (Public Record Office)
    ISBN: 1903365384 - available from The National Archives bookshopExternal website - opens in a new window from September
  • "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index - A Guide to Published Arrival Records, 1538-1900"
    P W Filby and M K Meyer
    (Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1981- ), 7 vols with supplements.
  • "Passenger and Immigration Lists Bibliography, 1538-1900 [USA and Canada]"
    P W Filby
    (Detroit, 1988)
  • "Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825", 7 vols.
    D Dobson
    (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1984-1993)
  • "The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783"
    D Dobson
    (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1989)
  • "Immigrants from Great Britain and Ireland - A Guide to Archival and Manuscript Sources in North America"
    J W Weaver and D Lester
    (Greenwood Press, 1986)
  • "A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the USA", 2 vols.
    D Whyte
    (Magna Carta Book Company, Baltimore, 1972 and 1986)
  • "A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation", 2 vols.
    D Whyte,
    (Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986 and 1995)
  • "The Scots Overseas: a Selected Bibliography"
    D Whyte
    (Scottish Association of Family History Societies, 1995)

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Immigration

  • "Immigrants and Aliens" by Roger Kershaw and Mark Pearsall
    (The National Archives)
    available from The National Archives BookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • "Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors" by Guy Grannum.
    (The National Archives)
    ISBN: 1903365384 - available from The National Archives bookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • "Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain" by Peter Fryer
    (Pluto Press)
    ISBN: 0861047494
  • "Asians in Britain, 400 Years of History" by Rozina Visram.
    (Pluto Press)
    ISBN 0 7453 1378 7 hardback, 0 7453 1373 6 paperback.
  • "Windrush" by Trevor Phillips and Mike Phillips
    (HarperCollins)
    ISBN: 0006530397
  • "Jewish Ancestors? A Beginners guide to Jewish Genealogy in Great Britain" edited by Rosemary Wenzerul.
    (Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2nd edition, 2001)
    ISBN: 0-9537669-3-4.

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Internet

  • "The Genealogist’s Internet" by Peter Christian. (Public Record Office)
    ISBN: 1903365163 - available from The National Archives bookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • "Internet for Genealogy" by David Hawgood. Published by David Hawgood.
    ISBN: 0948151196
  • "Finding genealogy on the Internet" by Peter Christian. Published by David Hawgood.
    ISBN: 0948151218
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Military

  • “PRO Pocket Guides: Using Army Records”
  • “PRO Pocket Guides: Using Navy Records”. Available from the The National Archives BookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • “Army Records for Family Historians” by Simon Fowler & William Spencer.
  • “Air Force Records for Family Historians” by William Spencer
  • "Army Service Records of the First World War" by William Spencer. Available from the The National Archives BookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • "Naval Records for Genealogists" by N A M Rodger
  • "Military Source Lists"
    (National Archives of Scotland)

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Religious records

  • PRO Pocket Guide: "Tracing Your Catholic Ancestors". The National Archives
    ISBN: 1903365058 - available from the The National Archives bookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • PRO Pocket Guide: "Tracing non-conformist Ancestors". The National Archives
    ISBN: 1903365066 - available from the The National Archives bookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • "Protestant Nonconformity and Roman Catholicism" by David Shorney.
    (Public Record Office)
    ISBN: 1 873162 27 8
  • "Jock Tamson’s Bairns: A history of the records of the General Register Office for Scotland"
    ISBN: 1 874451 591
    Available form the GROS websiteExternal website - opens in a new window
  • "Cofrestri Plwyf Cymru/Parish Registers of Wales" by C J Williams and J Watts-Williams.
    (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales and Welsh County Archivists’ Group in association with the Society of Genealogists, 2nd edition, 2000).
    ISBN (hardback) 1 86225 020 0; (paperback) 1-86225-022-7.
    Details of where the parish registers for Wales have been deposited, and of the periods covered by them.
  • "Cofrestri Anghydffurfiol Cymru/non-conformist Registers of Wales" by Dafydd Ifans.
    (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales and Welsh County Archivists’ Group, 1994)
    ISBN: 0 907158 75 7
  • "Jewish Ancestors? A Beginners guide to Jewish Genealogy in Great Britain" edited by Rosemary Wenzerul.
    (Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2nd edition, 2001)
    ISBN: 0-9537669-3-4.

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Wills and Testaments

  • "Public Record Office Pocket Guides to Family History - Using Wills". This guide concentrates on Wills in England and Wales. Available from the The National Archives BookshopExternal website - opens in a new window
  • "Scottish Handwriting 1500-1700: a self-help pack". A step-by-step guide to reading the handwriting of old Scottish documents using facsimiles of documents mainly from the National Archives of Scotland. Available from the National Archives of Scotland bookshopExternal website - opens in a new window (look in the "General Interest" section).

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