Latin for Local and Family Historians

Author: Denis Stuart
Publisher: Phillimore
ISBN: 9781860773853
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Latin is the language of a vast quantity of untouched source material. Despite the widespread popular interest in research into local and family history there has been no recent textbook to help the beginner to cope with the great barrier preventing access to that wealth of information--medieval Latin. This book remedies the omission. It embodies the author's experience as a university teacher of Latin and local history over 20 years, deriving from the notes and material developed for the Latin examination in the local history certificate courses which he organized. After dealing with the basic grammar of Latin, this very practical book examines the structure and vocabulary of the records use in local and family research, including Episcopal visitation, church court records, sepulchral inscriptions, wills, manorial court rolls, charters, and deeds. A final chapter explains the abbreviations used in medieval Latin. The book is complete in itself and contains al the necessary tables of declensions and conjugations plus a glossary of more than 800 words. The book is uniquely user-friendly, as the pace of instruction is never rushed, and the passages for translation are carefully graded for grammar and vocabulary and selected both for their intrinsic interest and for their representative character. The reader who works systematically through the book will be equipped to handle the Latin of the documents encountered by the do-it-yourself local or family historian.

Palaeography for Family and Local Historians

Author: Hilary Marshall
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9781860776519
Category : Paleography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A practical and comprehensive work on reading and translating old handwriting and abbreviations,particularly medieval and Latin writing, with examples and commentary.

Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History

Author: Bruce Durie
Publisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752464640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Once genealogists and local historians have learned everything they can from internet sources, the next step is reading and understanding older documents. The author details how to find and comprehend documents in England, Wales and Scotland from 1560 to 1860. These can be hard to find, are often written in challenging handwriting and use Latin, antiquated English or Scots.

Latin for Local and Family Historians

Author: Denis Stuart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752491189
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
Languages : en
Pages : 143

Reading Early American Handwriting

Author: Kip Sperry
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806308463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.

Ancestral Trails

Author: Mark D. Herber
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 696

Book Description
This is a comprehensive, illustrated guide to tracing British ancestry, equally suitable for beginners and those who have already started the search for their roots. The book guides the researcher for their roots. The book guides the researcher through the substantial British archives with a detailed finding aids or indexes. the early chapters include advice on obtaining information from relatives, drawing on family trees and starting research in the records of births, marriages and deaths, or in census records; later chapters guide researchers to the records that are ore that are more difficult to find and use, such as legal and property records.

Genealogy: Essential Research Methods

Author: Helen Osborn
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN: 0719819873
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 299

Book Description
This book is the ideal companion for anybody researching their family tree. It provides advice and inspiration on methods and problem-solving and helps the amateur family historian understand what successful professionals do to get results, and why we should copy them. Over ten chapters, it examines the various themes that affect the success or failure of all genealogy research. This begins with an overview of common challenges genealogists encounter and continues with an examination of how to both search effectively and find the right documentary sources. Using examples from her own family history as well as client work, teacher and professional genealogist Helen Osborn demonstrates how to get the most from documents, analyse problems and build research plans. These subjects lead on to recording results, how to ensure relationships are correctly proved, organizing information and presenting your findings. This book will be particularly valuable to anyone who is stuck with their research, in addition to those who are keen to learn about advanced skills and methods used by genealogists.

INTRODUCING MANORIAL RECORDS

Author: IAN H. WALLER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906280598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Medieval Latin

Author: K. P. Harrington
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317137
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 704

Book Description
To help place the selections within their wider historical, social, and political contexts, Pucci has written extensive introductory essays for each of the new edition's five parts. Headnotes to individual selections have been recast as interpretive essays, and the original bibliographic paragraphs have been expanded. Reprinted from the best modern editions, the selections have been extensively glossed with grammatical notes geared toward students of classical Latin who may be reading medieval Latin for the first time.

Family History: Digging Deeper

Author: Simon Fowler
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075247779X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
An exciting new addition to any family historian's library, Family History: Digging Deeper will take your research to the next level. Joined by a team of expert genealogists, Simon Fowler covers a range of topics and provides clear advice for the intermediate genealogist. Helping you push back the barriers, this book details how to utilise the internet in your research and suggests some unusual archives and records which might just transform your research. It will teach you about genealogical traditions, variants of family history around the world and even the abuse of genealogy by the Nazis. It will help you understand current developments in DNA testing, new resources and digitised online material. Problem-solving sections are also included to help tackle common difficulties and provide answers to the brick walls often reached when researching one's ancestors. If you want to dig deeper into your family tree and the huge array of records available, then this book is for you.