MICHIANA HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MATERIALS ON:
ILLINOIS-INDIANA-MICHIGAN-OHIO AND SELECTED OTHER STATES
English
Genealogy
Cox, Jane and Padfield, Timothy. Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1984. 114 pages. Softcover.
Note: address label: "Mrs. Walton Collins".
A practical guide to English resources particularly valuable to the inexperienced researcher. There is advice on the most productive ways of approaching these documents and the most relevant categories are clearly indicated.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy. Bishops' Transcripts and Marriage Licenses, Bonds and Allegations. A Guide to their Location and Indexes. Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore. 1989. Second edition. 32 pages. Softcover
This guide locates Bishops Transcripts and of records connected with the issue of Marriage Licenses. It also describes any abstracts, calendars and indexes to the latter, published or unpublished, and when these are lacking give an indication of the arrangement of the surviving original documents.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy. Census Returns, 1841 - 1881 A Directory to Local Holdings in Great Britain, Channel Islands; Isle of Man. Genealogical Publishing Co. 1989. 5th edition. 56 pages. Softcover.
The census for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, and 1881 for England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are at the Public Records office in London and have been microfilmed. The census was organized in Registration Districts, based on Poor Law unions, and Sub-Districts, often overlapping county boundaries. Thus straight-forward seeming "complete county" entries may hide missing places on county borders, or include those I neighboring counties.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy and Rogers, Colin. Electoral Registers Since 1832. And Burgess Rolls. Genealogical Publishing Company. Baltimore. 1990 second edition. 59 pages. Softcover.
Registers of Parliamentary electors were the creation of the 1832 Representation of the People ( a reform act), their significance being that a voter's name must be on them in order that a vote may be cast. The registers were always more than just a listing of names. It included the qualification which brought each one to the register; current residence, ownership of property in the constituency or polling district, and tenancies of those properties which were not self-occupied. There are also some hand written notations.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy. The Hearth Tax, Other later Stuart Tax Lists, and the Association Oath Rolls. Genealogical Publishing co. Baltimore. 1990. 61 pages. Softcover.
This guide is designed to tell genealogists and historians of the existence of records of the period 1660 - 1715, resulting from national legislation, which contain lists of names. They are mostly the names of tax-payers (and of those who did not pay the taxes, for various reasons), but the Association Oath rolls, names of those who swore loyalty to the Crown in 1695, are also included. It is not intended as a definitive to the taxation records of the period.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy and Medlycott, Mervyn. Local Census Listings, 1522 - 1930. Holdings in the British Isles. Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore. 1992. 60 pages. Softcover.
The term "local census" refers to those census listings which were not taken as part of the national census taken between 1841 and 1891. This guide has been expanded to cover quasi-census Easter Books and Communicants lists in England and Wales, Examination rolls in Scotland, some lists of Catholic and Protestant church members in Ireland, and occasional other types.
Price: $5.00
Gibsn, Jeremy. Marriage, Census, and other Indexes for Family Historians. Genealogical Publishing Co. 1989. Third edition. 44 pages. Softcover.
This guide is a listing of pre 1974 indexes for England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The indexes are arranged alphabetically.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy and Medlycott, Mervyn. Militia Lists and Musters, 1757 - 1876. A Directory of Holdings in the British Isles. Genealogical Publishing Company. Baltimore. 1989. Second edition. 44 pages. Softcover.
Lists naming officers only are not mentioned in this pamphlet. The records mentioned in this guide are of the reconstituted militia from 1757 on, and various others engendered by the Napoleonic Wars between 1797 and 1815.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy and Rogers, Colin. Poll Books, c. 1696 - 1872. A Directory to Local Holdings in Great Britain. Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore. 1990. Second edition. 60 pages. Softcover.
Poll books offer an extraordinary and anachronistic window onto the electoral practice of our predecessors because they record the name of the candidate for whom they voted. From the early eighteenth century, it is normal to find only the name and parish of each voter, especially in the original manuscript poll books.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy. Probate Jurisdictions: Where to Look for Wills. Genealogical Publishing co. 1989. 3rd edition. 62 pages. Softcover.
This is a simplified guide to probate jurisdictions and their records for the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It is designed for the newcomer to local and family history. Information on location of probate records before the mid-16th century is largely omitted. Wills before this date are rare. Wills have been centralized since 1858. Before that time they were handled by ecclesiastical courts, with jurisdiction in archdeaconries, diocese of bishops and provinces of the archbishops of Canterbury and York.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy. Quarter Sessions Records for Family Historians. A Select List. Genealogical Publishing co. Baltimore. 1989. 32 pages. Softcover.
The records of Quarter Sessions are the oldest and main collections of public records belonging to the historic counties of England and Wales. Their existence has led to the creation of county record offices, though this is often overlooked by genealogists who use them in their frequent dual role of diocesan record offices, with holdings of parish and probate records.
Price: $5.00
Gibson, Jeremy. Unpublished Personal Name Indexes in Record Offices and Libraries. Genealogical Publishing co. Baltimore. 1989. Second edition. 40 pages. Hardcover.
This book contains indexes not included in other pamphlets in the series. It contains several national lists as well as lists arranged alphabetically by counties.
Price: $5.00
Hallam, Elizabeth M. Domesday Book Through Nine Centuries. Thames and Hudson. New York. 1986. 224 pages. Hardcover.
Discusses the history of the Domesday Book, its true purpose, and how it has retained its importance during the nine hundred years since it was first created. Contains many photographs and illustrations.
Price: $25.00
Humphery-Smith, Cecil R. A Genealogist's Bibliography. Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore. 1985. 128 pages. Hardcover.
A selected list of materials concentrating on works which will assist students of genealogy before General Registration and national censuses. Arranged by county, this book discusses heraldry, place names, visitations, parochial and non parochial church records, tax rolls repositories, and much more.
Price: $10.00
Irvine, Sherry. Your English Ancestry. A Guide for North Americans. Ancestry. Salt Lake City. Revised edition. 1998. 263 pages. Softcover.
Discusses fundamentals, civil registrations, the census, lists and periodicals, church records, wills, and much more.
Price: $19.95
Palgrave-Moor, Patrick. How to Locate and Use Manorial Records. Elvery Dowers. Norwich, England. 1985. 25 pages. Softcover.
From manorial records, it is possible to compile a family tree, proven beyond doubt, covering the span of centuries, provided the same land was held by the same family. Nowhere in the vast source materials available to the researcher does this opportunity present itself better than in manorial records.
Price: $4.00