Thursday, March 11, 2010

Examples of Listings in the British Isles

In my last post I talked about the listings of early British Census and why they were collected, as outlined by Dr. Colin R Chapman in a talk I attended at our local Family History Society.   He also talked about where the lists were compiled.  This included:
-Country, principality, Province
-Counties
-Ridings, Sokes (called Baronies in Ireland)
-Hundreds, [...]

Early British Census -1086 to 1841

I attended a series of interesting talks by Dr. Colin R Chapman today sponsored by the Alberta Family History Society.  For those who may not know,  Colin Chapman is a well respected UK genealogist with 14 or more genealogical publications and a wealth of knowledge.  One of the talks was “Genealogy in Early British Census [...]

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