Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Mary Ingham

Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Mary Ingham

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* Covers the WAAC, WRENS, WRAF, VADS, nurses, doctors, etc. * Comprehensive guide to researching service women from the 1850s to the 1930s

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Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians by Mary Ingham

An essential guide for anyone researching women who served alongside the armed forces between 1840 and 1930, including army, naval and air force nurses, VADs, the WAAC, WRNS and WRAF, and other lesser known groups. Focusing in particular on the many women who served in WW1, Mary Ingham reveals a wide variety of sources of individual service and traces the fascinating history of these pioneer women.
The author explains which records survive, where they can be found, and how they can help in your researchRoots and Branch, West Surrey FHS There is a wealth of information. - Family Tree It is surprising to learn that women have served alongside their men folk in the armed services since the 1850s. This book deals with records about pioneering women ancestors, up to the 1920s, the main period of which records are available. With many illustrations this gives a very comprehensive history of how women served their country, as well as enabling you to find the records of this service. - West Middlesex Family History Society "This compact book packs an enormous amount of expertise and guidance into a limited space in a form which I think has never been done before - therefore commending it to the experienced researcher as much as the novice. This will save vast amounts of time, money and effort in research which could rapidly recoup its purchase cost." Friends of the NAM, March 2013
Ingham, Mary: - Mary Ingham's interest in women ancestors was aroused by research for her first book, Now We Are Thirty.

Since starting a specialist family history research service on nurses and women who served in the First World War, she has established herself as an expert on British service women and their records. She has contributed many articles to women's magazines and also written for Ancestors. This is her third book.
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ISBN 13 9781848841734
ISBN 10 1848841736
Title Tracing Your Service Women Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians
Author Mary Ingham
Series Tracing Your Ancestors Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published 2012-09-01
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.