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'Clear explanations, signposting, and sound advice underpin ideas to solve your conundrum.' Who Do You Think Your Are?. 'Particularly helpful for newbies, this book nevertheless brims with advice to encourage even the more experience genealogists to think out of the box to tackle old problems.' Family Tree. 'A Useful guide for those occasions when research has come to a standstill and another angle is needed to progress any further.' Genealogists' Magazine.
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'Brick walls' occur everywhere and all the time in genealogy research. Solving Genealogy Problems will help you make real progress through difficult areas and dead ends. With this book you can take your British Isles family tree back further.
Solving Genealogy Problems will:
* Help you find new records, including unusual ones genealogists often don't know about; and make the best use of them when you do find them.
* Suggest new ideas for looking at old problems.
* Give additional ideas on using the census - then more ideas on using census substitutes when the census doesn't have the answers.
* Suggest ways of finding elusive births, marriages and deaths - and then of making progress anyway, even when you absolutely cannot find them.
This book covers all periods of British Isles genealogy. The new frontiers of genealogy are considered for the hope they give on even the most intractable research block, and the possibility they allow of building even the most difficult of family trees.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
... it does exactly what it says on the back cover.
Let's face it, searching for great granddad Bert's birth certificate can be a bit of a bind, especially when his surname was Smith. Even with an 'unusual' (in the UK at least) surname like mine it can be hard to find basic pieces of info about quite recent generations. Unusual names often lead to unusual spelling mistakes. So, what to do?
Dr Davis offers a range of possible avenues (no pun intended) to help genealogists escape from the cul-de-sac or back double they have found themselves in. Sometimes census details are incomplete or BMD data unavailable, so why not start to look at directories and the like? As a novice, it was not something I had thought of.
The volume is written in an easy-to-read style (definitely no long words) and is full of practical hints to help you on your way.
This is definitely a book I would recommend.
Let's face it, searching for great granddad Bert's birth certificate can be a bit of a bind, especially when his surname was Smith. Even with an 'unusual' (in the UK at least) surname like mine it can be hard to find basic pieces of info about quite recent generations. Unusual names often lead to unusual spelling mistakes. So, what to do?
Dr Davis offers a range of possible avenues (no pun intended) to help genealogists escape from the cul-de-sac or back double they have found themselves in. Sometimes census details are incomplete or BMD data unavailable, so why not start to look at directories and the like? As a novice, it was not something I had thought of.
The volume is written in an easy-to-read style (definitely no long words) and is full of practical hints to help you on your way.
This is definitely a book I would recommend.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I think the author strained to make this into a whole book. The last few summary pages inside pretty much could've been present as THE book, as they say all he wanted to say.
However, it was clear to understand and it was written by someone who obviously understands his field.
I think someone starting out could learn a lot. Unfortunately, those of has that have got far enough to find brick walls are less likely to be beginners.
Not bad. Just nothing new for anyone who's been doing genealogy tor a year or more.
However, it was clear to understand and it was written by someone who obviously understands his field.
I think someone starting out could learn a lot. Unfortunately, those of has that have got far enough to find brick walls are less likely to be beginners.
Not bad. Just nothing new for anyone who's been doing genealogy tor a year or more.
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Quite helpful although a lot of it explains things I already knew; whether it will suggest a way of breaking down the wall I am very anxious to destroy is something I am not at all sure about.
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