Course Overview

Prerequisites

Textbook(s)

Students should own one or both of the texts on methodology listed below and it is recommended but not required that they obtain the other three items. Suppliers include the publishers, Willow Bend Books, and Interlink Bookshop (all have web sites readily found using a search engine).

1. Your English Ancestry by Sherry Irvine (Ancestry, 1998)
2. Ancestral Trails by Mark Herber (GPC, 2000)
3. Genuki by David Hawgood (FFHS, 2002 and online at http://www.hawgood.co.uk/genuki/ )
4. Probate Jurisdictions by J.S.W. Gibson and E. Churchill (FFHS, 2002)
5. Specialist Indexes for Family Historians by J.S.W. Gibson (FFHS, 2000)

Students should have access to the Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis or a similar gazetteer.

Students should read English history for the appropriate period; the Penguin History of Britain contains nine volumes, four covering 1603 to the present:

1. A Monarchy Transformed by Mark Kishlansky
2. A Wealth of Nations by Linda Colley
3. The Contradictions on Progress by David Cannadine
4. Hope and Glory by Peter Clarke