Author Description

"Beginning research into your ancestry is at first fairly straight-forward. But with ancestors doubling at each generation as you go backwards the task becomes more difficult. It becomes necessary to know where to find the specialist information you need for your search among a bewildering number, and often obscure sources. This long awaited new edition now extensively revised and updated is a standard reference work for family historians. It gives clear and concise information to point you in the right direction. Arranged alphabetically, it contains more than a thousand entries that will give sources, explanations, definitions, dates, addresses, bibliographies, maps and useful websites"--Back cover.