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Understanding Documents
Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are...
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Genealogists and local historians have probably seen every birth, marriage, death and census record available, and are adept at using the internet for research. However, once they have learnt everything they can from them, the next step is reading and understanding older documents. These can be hard to find (not many are online), are often written in challenging handwriting and use legal and other unfamiliar terms. Some will be in Latin, antiquated English or Scots. Readers need to be able to understand the nature and intent of a range of documents as well as the palaeography (the handwriting) and orthography (the 'shape' of the contents). In Understanding Documents for Genealogy and Local History, Dr Bruce Durie, the celebrated author of Scottish Genealogy, details how to find and comprehend documents from 1560 to the 1860s - wills, testaments, contracts, indentures and charters, land records (retours, sasines and manorial custumals), personal letters, official records, Church papers, trust dispositions, deeds and others. Also covered are the complexities of dates, numbers, calendars, measurements and money, abbreviations, transcription conventions, letter-forms and glossaries. A Latin primer completes the tool kit the genealogist and family historian will need to further their research.
Author: Bruce Durie
Publisher: History Press
Published: 02/01/2013
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.44lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.74w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780752464640
About the Author
Bruce Durie hosts a BBC Radio geneaology program called Digging Up Your Roots and is the author of Scottish Genealogy.
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Author: Bruce Durie
Publisher: History Press
Published: 02/01/2013
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.44lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.74w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780752464640
About the Author
Bruce Durie hosts a BBC Radio geneaology program called Digging Up Your Roots and is the author of Scottish Genealogy.
This title is only available via back order
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