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Praise for the TV Series
'Combining personal quest, social history and autobiography, it proved a triumphant mixture.' Daily Telegraph
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This is an accessible and modern guide to the hugely popular art of tracing your family history. Published to tie in with the BBC2 series, the book is packed with practical guidance on locating records and researching different eras and topics. It also includes celebrity histories and a directory of the best current Internet resources.
Who Do You Think You Are? is a fresh, contemporary take on family history and tracing your family tree. Suitable for the hobbyist and the more experienced researcher, it incorporates both basic information on tracing your ancestors plus theme-based sections allowing more detailed and focused research to follow up on family stories and characters.
The first section of the book is a concise and comprehensive summary of basic research tools – how to locate and use a range of records and information to track down your family and to provide the framework for more detailed research.
The main part of the book looks at key themes such as social history, occupations, military connections, immigration and emigration, and looking for skeletons in the cupboard (bigamy, illegitimacy, lunacy and crime – far more interesting than tracing your family back to William the Conqueror). With information, tips and stories about the historical background and law changes of the past, this is a fresh way of approaching family history and developing research into the stories and characters unearthed.
Finally, a comprehensive resources section provides the most up-to-date sources for common themes and localities – with assessments of the best Internet sources for all types of research. Also featuring celebrity family history stories and lots of extraordinary tales from ordinary people, this book is a fascinating practical guide to this absorbing and intriguing hobby.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As an accompaniment to the hugely successful TV show, this book is excellent and has lots of nice little additions from the 'stars' involved in said series.
Sadly, anyone hoping that this book will assist them in tracing their own family through history are better off looking elsewhere as that section is more of a footnote than any sizeable guide.
All in all a tad disappointing but a nice book for fans of the show.
Sadly, anyone hoping that this book will assist them in tracing their own family through history are better off looking elsewhere as that section is more of a footnote than any sizeable guide.
All in all a tad disappointing but a nice book for fans of the show.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As a prompt to choosing directions to research your history, this isn't a bad read, and it isn't just a rehash of the tv celebrities' families- there's plenty of examples of "ordinary families".
The sections are:
Starting Out- a general, how to get down to it.
Skeletons-illegitimacy, divorce, bigamy, crime
For Queen and Country- military
Shippping in Shipping out- immigration and emigration
Earning a Crust-some guide to professions
Moving Around- why people up sticks to move to a better area
Everyday Life
Where it fails now, is that internet research has very much improved since the book was written (the government web addresses have moved around) - I've progressed leaps and bounds with my long neglected tree because of online census returns and links to other people's attempts (I chose "Ancestry" as the service that best suited me). My family is very plodding, don't SEEM to go off and fight much, and just bounce around the English Midlands back to 1837. So this books has proved less useful because I'm rather lacking in transported criminals and German refugees. I've just got some juicy skeletons which also connect back to a potential 12th century line!
As a look and feel book, it's a definite 5, but it only scratches the surface of potential research. Then again- you're not going to learn everything in your first go at family history, so it will at least make you consider, all possibilities. following on from re-reading this, I'm going to see what I can glean from probate records for my now much expanded tree. Wish me luck!
The sections are:
Starting Out- a general, how to get down to it.
Skeletons-illegitimacy, divorce, bigamy, crime
For Queen and Country- military
Shippping in Shipping out- immigration and emigration
Earning a Crust-some guide to professions
Moving Around- why people up sticks to move to a better area
Everyday Life
Where it fails now, is that internet research has very much improved since the book was written (the government web addresses have moved around) - I've progressed leaps and bounds with my long neglected tree because of online census returns and links to other people's attempts (I chose "Ancestry" as the service that best suited me). My family is very plodding, don't SEEM to go off and fight much, and just bounce around the English Midlands back to 1837. So this books has proved less useful because I'm rather lacking in transported criminals and German refugees. I've just got some juicy skeletons which also connect back to a potential 12th century line!
As a look and feel book, it's a definite 5, but it only scratches the surface of potential research. Then again- you're not going to learn everything in your first go at family history, so it will at least make you consider, all possibilities. following on from re-reading this, I'm going to see what I can glean from probate records for my now much expanded tree. Wish me luck!
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