How to Climb Your Family Tree without Falling Out. BOOK 2 ~ COLONIAL TO MEDIEVAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COLONIAL

  • 21 PLAT MAPPING OLD DEEDS:  Walk Where They Walked
  • 22 INDIAN WARS:  Which Way Did He Go?
  • 23 COLONIAL RECORDS – I:  Ye Olde Papers
  • 24 COLONIAL RECORDS – II – British, Spanish, French, Dutch:  Strangers in Our Midst
  • 25 HISTORICAL NOVELS AS RESEARCH:  Treasures in Your Easy Chair
  • 26 ANCESTRY, LDS, CYNDI & ARCHIVEGRID:  At Your Service
  • 27 CHURCH RECORDS:  Amen to That!
  • 28 INSURANCE COMPANIES & BANKS:  All Fired Up
  • 29 IMMIGRANTS;  After a Voyage Like That, Who’d Want to Go Back?
  • 30 MIGRATION PATTERNS:  He Went Thata Way

MEDIEVAL

  • 31 DNA:  Straight from GrGrGrGrGrGr Grampa
  • 32 BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES:  It’s a Family Thing
  • 33 EUROPEAN CHURCH RECORDS:  Parishable
  • 34 SOLDIERY:  Who Goes There?
  • 35 GUILDS:  It’s a Crafty Business
  • 36 READING MIDDLE ENGLISH:  You Call That English?
  • 37 ARCHIVES BACK TO THE MIDDLE AGES:  That’s Really Old
  • 38 VISITATIONS –  MEDIEVAL CENSUSES & PEDIGREES:  Counting Those Who Most Counted
  • 39 ROYALTY & PEERAGE:  So You Have Royal Blood in You
  • 40 GENTRY –  Knights, Gentlemen & Yeomen:  Gentleman’s Gentleman

APPENDICES

  • Appendix 8:  STATE ARCHIVES
  • Appendix 9:  IMMIGRANT SOURCE CODES
  • Appendix 10:  US CHURCH ARCHIVES
  • Appendix 11:  LATIN WORDS FOUND IN PARISH RECORDS
  • Appendix 12:  17TH CENTURY WORDS THAT ARE OBSOLETE TODAY
  • Appendix 13:  A SAMPLING OF VISITATIONS IN ENGLAND
  • Appendix 14:  PEERAGES IN ENGLAND

ILLUSTRATIONS

Chapter 33 – EUROPEAN CHURCH RECORDS

  •             Christening Record
  •             Marriage Record

Chapter 36 – READING MIDDLE ENGLISH

  •             Old/Middle English Alphabet

Chapter 38 – MEDIEVAL CENSUS

  •             Domesday Book of 1086