Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors: A Guide for Family & Local Historians
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
$38.22
- Paperback
202 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2017
Summary
‘Tracing Your Glasgow Ancestors’ is a volume in the series of city ancestral guides for readers and researchers who want to find out about life in Glasgow in the past and to know where the key sources for its history can be found. In vivid detail it describes the rise of Glasgow through tobacco, shipping, manufacturing and trade from a minor cathedral town to the cosmopolitan centre of the present day.
Ian Maxwell’s book focuses on the lives of the local people both rich and poor and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473867215 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473867215 |
| Author: | Ian Maxwell |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Family History |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 202 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 466g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
“This book is well written and a must for anyone with ancestors in Glasgow or the surrounding communities. However, it also has wider appeal for others with Scottish ancestors because it includes a description of the national records (such as taxation records). If your ancestors live in another Scottish burgh this inclusion will certainly indicate and explain what records may be available for your community.”– “FGS FORUM, Fall 2017”
“When we were compiling the first part of our family tree (using Ancestry.co.uk - FindMyPast is extremely poor by comparison) a year or so ago, we ran into problems with the Scottish side of our research, and we still haven’t completed it. This latest volume in Pen and Sword’s magnificent genealogy series provides a nuber of clues as to how to proceed - obviously this particular title concentrates on the Glasgow area, but the suggestions are still pertinent and the approach to Scottish records is superb. A must-have for your family tree library.”– “Books Monthly”
About The Author
Ian Maxwell
Dr. Ian Maxwell, a former record officer at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, is now a freelance writer and a leading expert on Scottish and Irish genealogy. He conducts courses on genealogy throughout Northern Ireland and is a regular speaker at genealogical conferences. He writes articles regularly for Who Do You Think You Are? magazine. His previous publications include Researching Armagh Ancestors, Researching Down Ancestors, Your Irish Ancestors, and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors.
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