Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy (85 page)

    
to New Zealand 381, 383, 392

    
to North America 309, 381–2, 384, 387, 388, 389–91

    
passenger lists 383

    
poor parishioners 401

    
records found in the UK 383–4

    
to South Africa 392–3

    
transportation 385–6

    
troubleshooting guide 494–5

    
voluntary/free settlers 388–93

Empire Settlement Act (1922) 381

enclosure maps 317

enclosures
see
Inclosure Acts

Engels, Friedrich 269

England and Wales

    
adoption registers 420

    
adoptions 420, 421–2, 425

    
age of consent 79, 80

    
Agrarian Revolution 306–7

    
Boards of Excise 240

    
census returns 94, 97

      
accessing collections 103–6

      
1841: archive references 99–100

      
1841: information contained 98–9

      
1851–1901: archive references 102–3

      
1851–1901: information contained 100–2

    
civil registration 30, 67, 74, 75–88

    
company registration records 327

    
customs officials 241–4

    
divorce 428

      
before 1858: 430–2

      
after 1858: 433–4

    
farm surveys 319–20

    
freemasonry 364

    
lawyers' records 336

    
location of parish records 118

    
manorial records 315

    
National Burial Index 125

    
parishes 112–13

    
police 343

    
poor relief 397

    
probate

      
changes (1858) 137–8

      
records post 1858: 146–7

    
railways 299, 300, 304

    
teachers 348–51

    
tithe records 316–18

English Civil War 56, 153, 156, 173, 467, 469, 472

enrolments 470–1

Episcopal Church of Scotland 352

equity 470

Equity Court records 471–6

    
evidence: depositions, interrogatories and affidavits 474–5

    
evidence: masters exhibits 475–6

    
judgment: decrees and orders 476

    
proceedings 473

EthnoAncestry website 504, 506

European Union 367

evidence

    
vs. analysis 50

    
checking 58

    
gathering 32–7

    
questioning 53

Exchequer 156, 339, 471, 472

    
E series 122, 155, 338, 368, 378, 384, 395, 468, 469, 473, 474–5, 476

excisemen
see
customs and excisemen

execution 455–6

    
Scotland 457

Exeter 461

extended family

    
by blood 18–19

    
by marriage 19–20

factories, foundries and mills 268–85

    
case example: Robert Lindsay 272

    
case study: Jane Horrocks 281

    
finding out more 285

    
historical context 268–71

    
industrialist ancestors 274–5

    
industrial unrest and labour movements 283–5

    
regional industry archives 275–8

    
specialist museums 278–82

    
tracing industrial ancestors 272–5

Factory Act (1833) 271, 277

Factory Inspectorate 277

Faculty Office Index to Marriage

    
Licence Allegations (1701–1850) 127

Families in British India Society 395

Family and Community Historical

    
Research Society 321

family bibles 12

family conversations 5–9

family history centres 34–5

family history societies 21, 68–9, 104, 118

family memorabilia 11–14

    
museums 37

family papers 129

Family Records Centre (FRC) 84, 507

family relationships 17–20

Family Search website 28, 34–5, 57, 124, 125–6, 127

family secrets and myths 9, 396–457

    
and census returns 108

    
Internet forums 63

    
and wills 132

family stories 5

family trees 16–31

    
abbreviations 25

    
creating 16–17

    
drawing 20–5

    
drop-line 21–3

    
indented paragraphs 23–4

    
investigating previous research 54–8

    
online 25–8

    
setting a budget 31

    
setting goals 28–31

    
understating family relationships 17–20

familyhistory website 126

familyrelatives website 88

famine 308–9
see also
Irish Potato

    
Famine

farm surveys 319–20

farming and agricultural labourers 306–23

    
agricultural life collections 310–14

    
case study: David Tennant 313

    
disasters and crises 320–3

    
finding out more 323

    
historical context 307–10

    
researching agricultural communities 314–20

Federation of Family History

    
Societies (FFHS) 61, 62, 69, 125, 126, 404

    
conferences 70–1

Feudal Aids 479

feudal rights of the Crown 467–9

feudal system 152, 307
see also
manorial system

filing 50–1

Finance Act (1908) 241

Find My Past website 59, 88, 89, 105, 146, 180, 233, 383

fire insurance 335

First World War (Great War) ix, 5, 13, 30, 41, 154, 157, 179–80, 184, 381

    
aliens 370

    
battalion war diaries 176–7

    
battlefield sites 181

    
British Army records 166–71

    
coastguards 237

    
coal mining 253–4

    
internment 371–2

    
Lost Generation website 181

    
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 196

    
Royal Naval Division 197

    
medals 170, 198, 216–17, 227, 229

    
prisoners of war 213

    
Royal Air Force 209–10, 214

    
Royal Flying Corps 216–17

    
Royal Marines 202, 204, 206

    
serving accountants 334

    
women factory workers 271

    
Women's Royal Air Force 216

fishermen 245–7

    
case study: Amanda Redman 246

fishing apprentices 245

Fleet Air Arm 209, 219

Fleet Air Arm Museum 196, 197, 199

Fleet prison 116

Foot Guards 168

Foreign Office

    
FO series 89–90, 128

Foreign Office List
341

Foundling Hospital, London 415, 427

foundlings 415, 426–7

foundries 270

France and Germany Star 230

freebmd website 87–8

Freedom of Information Act (2000) 95, 378

freemasonry 363–5

Freemasons Hall, London 365

freemen 357, 359, 363

French Revolution 368

gallantry medals

    
British Army 170

    
Merchant Navy 229, 230

    
Royal Air Force 217

Garrett, Lesley 36, 261, 444

Gazettes
online 61

GEDCOM (Genealogical Data Communications) files 25, 28

    
privacy 67

genealogical libraries 36

Genealogical Society of Victoria 386, 454

genealogy software 51

    
family trees 26–8

General Eyre 443–4

    
records 448–9

General Inclosure Act (1801) 306, 307

General Post Office (GPO) 291

General Record Office 180, 220, 232

General Register of Births of Children of Protestant Dissenters 120

General Register Office (GRO) 11, 36, 77, 82, 84, 85, 89, 95, 120, 214, 421–2

    
national indexes 84–5

    
online indexes 87–8

General Register Office of Ireland (GROI) 92, 95

General Register Office of Northern Ireland (GRONI) 93, 423

General Register Office of Scotland (GROS) 90, 110, 130, 422, 436–7, 508

Genes Reunited website 26, 57

genetic genealogy 504–6

    
DNA testing 504–5

    
social network sites 505–6

genetree website 505–6

GENUKI website 62, 64, 65, 69, 275, 305

George, Duke of Cambridge 167

George III 201, 347, 362, 471

German internees 370, 371–2

Glasgow Story website 278

Globe and Laurel, The
204, 207

Gloucester County Council

    
Genealogical Database 143

government officials 240–3

GPO 291

Great Depression 270, 271

Grand Lodge of Ireland 363, 364

Grand Lodge of Scotland 363

Great Exhibition 15, 268, 275

Great Fire of London 359

Great Reform Act (1832) 275, 283

Greenwich Hospital 193–4, 199, 206, 259

Greevor tin mine 260–2

Gregorian calendar 14, 47

Grenadier Guards 154

Gretna Green 436

Griffiths' Valuation 96, 315, 322

Guernsey 131, 149
see also
Channel Islands

Guild of One-Name Studies 57–8

Guildhall Library, London 35, 89

    
Archdeaconry of London Wills

    
Index 142

    
business records 328

    
Christ's Hospital School records 388

    
clergymen's records 353

    
Company of Watermen records 295

    
divorce records 431

    
emigrant records 388

    
fire insurance records 335

    
Institute of Chartered Accountants records 334

    
livery company records 360–1

    
Lloyd's marine collection 230

    
medical professions records 346–7, 348

    
Merchant Navy records 220, 222, 224

    
merchants' records 332

    
overseas parish registers 128

guilds 357–63

    
records 360–3

    
local archives 363

    
London livery companies 360–3

    
Scotland 364–5

    
Ireland 365

Habitual Criminal Act (1869) 454

Habitual Criminal Registry 454

Ham's Custom Year B
ook 242–3

Ham's Inland Revenue Year Book
244

half-relations 20

Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes
325

handwriting, old 46–7, 461

Hardwicke's Marriage Act (1753) 116, 121, 373, 414, 441

Harland & Wolff 249

Hart's Army Lists
158, 203

headright system 389

Henry VII 183

Henry VIII 47, 113, 120, 183, 397, 430, 471, 478

Henry Grace a Dieu
183

heraldry 56

High Court of Admiralty

    
HCA series 221, 222

High Court of Delegates 432

    
DEL series 221, 432

High Court of Justiciary (Scotland) 457

Highland Clearances 308–9, 321–2

Hislop, Ian 53, 169

historic occupations 502–3

‘history cards' 370

Historic Manuscripts Commission 507

HM Customs and Excise 240, 241–4

    
CUST series 223, 236, 237, 238, 239, 241–3

HM Prince of Wales
194

Holocaust 3

Home Guard 176

Home Office 263, 378, 418

    
HO series 99–100, 102, 175, 258, 277, 344, 369, 370, 372, 377, 378–9, 383, 386, 387, 452–4, 455, 456

Horrocks, Jane 281