Genealogy: Everything You Need to Climb Your Family Tree Without Falling Out - 2

📖 The Scoop

Let us pick up from what you learned to do in Volume I and soar to exciting places your ancestors lived in, and what life was like for them in distance places and distant times.Volume 2 begins with researching American colonial records beginning with the Revolutionary War between America and England with a little involvement by the Germans and French ?.?..It moves across the big pond, then, to Europe. Since the author can only read English, explanations center around England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. But the same principles can be applied to other countries in Europe?.?..You will learn where to find birth, marriage, and death records all the way back to the Middle Ages. All such records were in churches and written in Latin. The book explains how to read common Latin phrases. You will learn how to locate your ancestor in wars back to medieval times. You will also learn how to check occupational guilds that prevailed then to find your ancestor?.?.. The author explains the progression of the English language and how both words and letter formations changed through the centuries. You will be given a chart of the alphabet showing letter formations and also an explanation of abbreviations no longer used.Did your ancestor have a coat of arms? Many did. You can find out. Did you always hope you ancestor was royalty? Would you settle for a member of the gentry? The odds are that one of your ancestors was one of these elitists in your distant past.

Genre: Family & Relationships / General (fancy, right?)