How to Trace a Pedigree

Chapter 2: PREFACE

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About This Book

This practical handbook guides amateur genealogists through step-by-step pedigree research, advising on gathering family information, consulting parish registers and tombstones, and making efficient use of wills and published sources. It explains locating and interpreting manuscript records, deciphering old documents, constructing family trees, and regional approaches for London, Ireland, Scotland, and the provinces. Chapters list useful publications, methods to reduce expense, and procedural tips for will-searching and special-library use. The tone is instructional and concise, emphasizing how to work from known facts to unknown links and how to organize searches to yield reliable ancestral information.

PREFACE

I have endeavoured in this little book to give the amateur pedigree-hunter the benefit of what I have personally found to be the most valuable documents to search, and full instructions as to where he can consult them, also the various steps to be taken in tracing a pedigree, without unduly crowding his attention with names and classes of documents which he may need to consult.

I have, however, added most of these in a later part of the book, so that sufficient information should be obtainable within its pages to meet the requirements of the average genealogical searcher in the British Isles.

H. A. C.