Explore more than 65 volumes about genealogy, heraldry, palaeography, geography, and more. The details gleaned from these titles will expand your knowledge about your ancestor’s life and how your ancestors lived through the centuries.
Explore more than 65 volumes about genealogy, heraldry, palaeography, geography, and more. The details gleaned from these titles will expand your knowledge about your ancestor’s life and how your ancestors lived through the centuries.
These volumes are incredibly useful beyond searching for an ancestor’s name. You can access 62 different volumes relating to British history, heraldry, cultural history, and genealogy. They will provide the contextual information you need to create full profiles of your ancestors and the lives they led. They will add quality to your family history and your overall understanding of British genealogy. Britain, histories and reference guides is a resource you will save and keep coming back to. The subject matter varies greatly in this large collection of publications. Therefore, when you find your ancestor’s name in these records it could be for a variety of reasons. Here are some examples of the titles available and what you can find in each.
A General And True History Of The Lives And Actions Of The Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, Etc. published 1742
Fox-Davies' Heraldry Explained
Wonderful London
Searching through a PDF (Portable document format) is different from searching through fully transcribed record sets. Here are some tips to keep in mind while you search for your ancestors:
Direct Search
Name searches
A name search will return results which have the search terms on the same page within the document. This means that searching for John Smith will return pages where the names 'John' and 'Smith' occur. For this reason your search may return the name William Smith or John Brown. By inserting quotations around the full name the search function will locate the terms together; for example, “John Smith.”
To search for your ancestor by their name, write it as it would appear on the document. For example, if your relative was known as ‘Will’ it is likely that the name used for official records was ‘William.’
If you are unable to find your relative on your first search you can try different name variations. A number of register books only use abbreviations for first names. For example, if your search is unsuccessful for William Smith, try W Smith or Wm Smith.
Perusing the PDF
If you wish to read through the whole document you are searching, then order the results by page number. You can start from the beginning of the document and read through to the end using the next button above the image.
Page numbers often correlate with the individual images of the documents rather than the page numbers used within the publication. Therefore page 1 starts with the cover page.