Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy (90 page)

separations

    
Ireland 437–8

    
private 432

Sephardic Jews 373

settlement system 399–400

Settlement Acts 397

Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act (1919) 333

Sheffield Company of Cutlers 285

Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust 276–7

Sheffield steel industry 270, 271

Shepherd Wheel 276

shipyards 248–9

Silver War badge 170

slave trade 330–2, 366

slavery 376

slaves, naval dockyards 248

Sluys, Battle of (1340) 182

Smart Matching 28

smuggling 234–5

Smuts, Jan 209

social history, pre-1800 458–79

    
case study: Matthew Pinsent 478

    
civil court records 470–6

    
Crown records 466–9

    
manorial records 460–6

    
research tips 461

    
taxation 469

    
tracing aristocratic roots 476–9

social network sites (DNA) 505–6

Society for Army Historical Research 69, 179

Society of Friends
see
Quakers

Society of Genealogists (SoG) 36, 54, 61–2, 338

    
Air Force Lists 211

    
apothecary records 347

    
apprenticeship records 356

    
Bankrupts Directories 330

    
Boyd's Marriage Index 124

    
Civil Service index 341

    
clergymen index 353

    
death duty register indexes 146

    
divorce records 431

    
Eighteenth Century Medics
346

    
emigrant records 391, 393, 395

    
family history fair 71

    
lectures 70

    
New Zealand records 392

    
online catalogue (SOGCAT) 43, 45

    
parish records 118

    
pedigree templates 21

    
Scottish registration indexes 92

    
Trinity House petitions 222

    
will index collections 143

Sorenson Genomics 504

South Africa

    
emigration to 381

    
migrant records 392–3

South African Society of Genealogists 393

South Wales Coalfield Coalition (SWCC) 257–8

Southampton City Archive 227

Spanish Armada 183

spelling variations 46, 68, 86–7, 108, 140

Spinning the Web 277–8

St Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572) 122

St Fagan's National History Museum 311

Stannaries Court Abolition Act (1986) 252

Star Chamber 471, 472

    
STAC series 473

starting out 4–5

State Papers 368, 388, 389, 471

    
SP series 122, 156, 384

Statute of Artificers and Apprentices (1563) 354

Statute of Wills (1540) 134

Statute of Winchester (1285) 155–6, 174

Statutory Registers 90

Stephenson's Rocket 288

step-relations 20

stewards' accounts 466

Sticks Research Agency ix

Stopher, Richard 85

Stuart militia records 174

Supreme Court of Judicature 433, 471, 475, 476

    
J series 435, 475, 476

surnames

    
famous 477

    
origins and meanings 498–501

surveys 446

Sussex

    
smuggling prevention 234–5

    
Swing Riots 321

Swing Riots 306, 307–8, 321, 323

synagogue records 373–4

T. B. Howell's A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason
446

Tasmania 382, 391

taxation 368, 469

teachers 349–52

Tennant, David 313

Territorial Army 173, 176

Territorial Force 173, 176

Territorial Force War Medal 217

testaments 134

Thatcher, Margaret 254

The Union Makes Us Strong website 284–5

Thomas, Duke of Gloucester 477

Thomas Coram Foundation 426–7

Times, The
31, 158, 198, 204, 230, 326, 446

    
online 61, 129, 158, 181, 230, 431

tin mining 250, 252–3, 257, 259, 260–2

Titanic
15, 249

Tithe Applotment Act (1823) 318

tithe records 316–19

Tithe Rent Charge Act 318

Toleration Act (1691) 121

Tower Colliery 262

Trade Union Ancestors 265

trade unions 264–5

    
records 284–5

trades and crafts 354–65

    
apprenticeship 354–7, 365–6

    
case study: Natasha Kaplinsky 362

    
freemasonry 363–5

    
guilds and livery companies 357–63, 365–6

Trades Union Congress (TUC) 284–5

Trafalgar, Battle of (1805) 184

Trafalgar Ancestors database 191

Transport Act (1947) 294, 296

transportation 382, 385–7, 442

    
records 454

travel and communication 286–305

    
canals and inland waterways 292–6

    
case study: Griff Rhys Jones 298

    
case study: Sue Johnston 301

    
finding out more 304–5

    
historical context 286–9

    
roads and turnpikes 289–91

    
Post Office 291–2

    
railway records 296–304

Treasury

    
T series 236, 239, 241, 242, 243, 341, 365, 383, 390, 419

Treaty of Waitangi (1840) 383

trent-deux quartiers
21

Trevithick, Richard 287

trial records 445–51

Trinity House Corporation 230

Trinity House petitions 222

troubleshooting guides 480–95

Tudor period

    
Militia records 174

    
Navy origins 183

    
population 459

Turnpike Acts 286–7, 289

turnpikes
see
roads and turnpikes

24 Hour Museum 282

Ulster Folk & Transport Museum 282, 294, 300–1, 312

Ulster Historical Foundation 332, 344, 352

Ulster ‘plantation' 365

uncles 18

    
false relationships 10–11

United Grand Lodge of England 363, 364

United States

    
census returns 126

    
DNA testing 504

    
immigrant records 390

    
parish registers 128

    
see also
North America

University of Newfoundland, Canada 224, 245

Valleyfield Colliery explosion (1939) 263–4

verifying family data 10–11, 29–30

Vicar General Index to Marriage

    
Licence Allegations 127

Victoria, Queen 409

Victoria & Albert Museum 37, 275

Victoria County History
315

Victorian period

    
chemists 347

    
manufacturing 270

    
photos 14

    
slums 15

    
teaching 350

    
tithes 316

    
workhouses 403–4

Victory Medal 170, 217, 229

Virginia 381, 389

volunteer units 176

Volunteers 176

Wales

    
company records 273–4

    
economy 271

    
foundries and factories 275

    
Great Session 450

    
institutional catalogues online 43

    
mining 250, 257–9, 262, 264, 267

    
non-conformists 123

    
parish records 113

    
turnpikes 290

    
see also
England and Wales

      
National Library of Wales

Wall Street Crash (1929) 271

Walsingham, Francis 471

war

    
family memorabilia 13–14

    
painful memories 8

    
wills prior to being killed in battle 136

war dead 180–1

war diaries 171

    
battalion 171, 176–7

    
personal 171, 179

war histories 178

War Medal 230

war memorials 180–1

War Office 177, 208

WO series 42, 76, 157–63, 166, 167–8, 168–70, 171, 175–6, 177, 210, 211–12, 213, 216–17, 356, 372

wardship 469

Waterway Index 295–6

Waterways Archive 293

Weaver's Triangle 279

wedding announcements 12

Wellcome Historical Medical Library 345

Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine 346, 410

Wellcome Library 348

Wellcome Trust 345

Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan

    
Registry of Births 120

West Indies
see
Caribbean

Westminster 109

Who Do You Think You Are?
vi, ix, 2, 3, 17, 32, 36, 79

Who Do You Think You Are? Live
71

Who Do You Think You Are?

    
magazine 68

wife sales 429

William and Mary 193

William the Conqueror 94, 123, 460

wills 11–12, 30, 65, 132–49, 459

    
case study: Jeremy Clarkson 145

    
difficulties in locating 140–1

    
historical background 133–5

    
and illegitimate children 12, 419

    
local searches 147

    
locating wills registered prior to 1858 142–4

    
making the most of 133

    
online research guides 62

    
proving prior to 1858 138–42

    
RAF/RFC personnel 214–15

    
writing process 135–6

    
see also
probate entries

Wills Act (1837) 135

Wiltshire Wills Project 144

Windsor, Barbara 309

Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) 216

Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) 216

Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) 197

wool and worsted 270

Worcester 461

workhouses 398, 402–3, 417

    
Ireland 406–7

    
records 400–1, 403–4

Working Class Movement Library 265, 284

workshops 70–1

Worshipful Company of Mercers 359

York 461

York Peculiars Probate Index 142–3

Yorkshire

    
coal mines 251

    
mining 251

    
textile industry 270, 279–80