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."Who Do You Think You Are?" Encyclopedia of Genealogy: The Definitive Reference Guide to Tracing Your Family History
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by: Nick Barratt

September 01, 2008

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.The Genealogist's Internet
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by: Peter Christian

August 31, 2005
I was lucky enough to be given this as a birthday gift when I first got into my Family Tree. It is a really useful resource helping a beginner find their way around the wealth of info available on the web to the amateur genealogist. There is info on where to start and on the whole aray of online sources. A great book, worth the money.
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.Madresfield
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by: Jane Mulvagh

June 02, 2008
Jane Mulvagh's book should be called The Lygons to be more accurate. She offers only tantalising glimpses into the house itself, using suspiciously round dimensions to describe the rooms, an implausibly high drawing room ceiling and throws away a comment about 60 bedrooms in her descriptions. If you are looking for a history of Madresfield you'd be better to read 'The Last Country Houses' or the Country Life articles, the latter of which don't make a mention in her bibliography. Her links from the brief descriptions of the house to the various family members are facile and 2 dimensional.

However as a history of the Lygon's the book is very good. It makes fascinating reading, particularly on the 20th century Lygons and offers glimpses ... Read More:
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.The Penguin Dictionary of First Names (Penguin Reference)
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by: David Pickering

August 05, 2004
....with all of the previous reviews. This book is divided into girl and boy names which are then listed in alphabetical order. There are so many names, 5,000 according to the book itself, that reading through them all to create a shortlist is time consuming!

We purchased the book to help us decide the name of our newborn and there are so many names to choose from that it is inevitable that you will find one that you both agree on!

Mainly European and biblical names, with a smattering of hebrew, arabic and Indian. Generally gives the history behind and the meaning of the name also.
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.Genealogy Online for Dummies - UK Edition
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by: Jenny Thomas, Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm, Nick Barratt

October 13, 2006
I truly enjoyed this book. My daughters been trying to buy it for me for quite some time. Of course that was the previous version...I didn't think I needed it AND then I hit a brick wall. I asked her to get it for me for Mother's Day, sure enough, it helped! Matthew and April, Thanks!!!
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.The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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by: J. Jacobs

May 13, 1993
I found this book fascinating. I live and work in a country that has been badly planned since the war and that suffers from all the mistakes that Jane Jacobs describes. What astonishes me is that planning was not influenced by this book when it was written. Most if its lessons are self-evidently correct. Yet even today planners continue to zone for dead, empty streets and monopolistic commerce. It has opened my eyes and made me feel a little angry. I wasn't interested in planning or urbanisation before I read this book, but now I am.
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.Ancestral Trails: Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History
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by: Mark D. Herber

January 30, 2004
As a fairly recent - but rapidly becoming obsessed - family historian I have either acquired or borrowed a fair number of the leading books on Family History available at the moment. However Ancestral Trails outshines them all. Whilst being very readable in its own right it gives a wealth of background information on sources and advice on how you might make progress if you hit a brick wall, and has the most comprehensive coverage I have found. This and The Genealogist's Internet by Peter Christian have become my two bibles. I run two Family History Groups and I would strongly recommend both of these books to any serious amateur family historian.
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.Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy
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by: Alison Weir

June 13, 2002
This is an easy to understand guide to the genealogy of Britain's Royal Families - including the rulers of Scotland and England. Not as in depth as I'd hoped but it's still useful to have as a quick reference guide. Recommended.
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.The Family and Local History Handbook: Bk. 11 (11th Edition)
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by: Robert Blatchford, Elizabeth Blatchford

May 26, 2008
This very useful handbook is full of information for the embryo and competent geneologist. Full, from cover to cover with fact, figures,help pages,where to look,how to look and many more interesting topics. It should be on the table of everyone who is intersted in the subject of tracing ones history.

It gives guidance on specialist persons who can do the work for you, books to read to further your knowledge, articles about specific events of the past which are most interesting. There is a section on military history and regiments and museums and how to find your ancestors who served the nation. Well presented and highly readable. A perfect reference book
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.The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker, 1849-1998: 2
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by: Niall Ferguson

August 29, 2002
err my fault as I bought the wrong book when I wanted the first volume. I expected to look at the personalities behind the House of Rothschild but you rarely get that and instead I found it to be boring trawling through the numerous financial trades they made at the time. Not really interested in the financial history but characters. Wrong expectation I guess.
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