Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors by Adele Emm

Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors by Adele Emm

Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman - a butcher, baker or candlestick maker - somewhere in our ancestry, and Adele Emm's handbook is the perfect guide to finding out about them - about their lives, their work and the world they lived in. She introduces the many trades and crafts, looks at their practices and long traditions, and identifies and explains the many sources you can go to in order to discover more about them and their families. Chapters cover the guilds, the merchants, shopkeepers, builders, smiths and metalworkers, cordwainers and shoemakers, tailors and dressmakers, coopers, wheelwrights and carriage-makers, and a long list of other trades and crafts. The training and apprenticeships of individuals who worked in these trades and crafts are described, as are their skills and working conditions and the genealogical resources that preserve their history and give an insight into their lives. A chapter covers the general sources that researchers can turn to - the National Archives, the census, newspapers, wills, and websites - and gives advice on how to use them.Adele Emm's introduction will be fascinating reading for anyone who is researching the social or family history of trades and crafts.

Adele Emm worked in television for many years and is the author of Researching for the Media, Television, Radio and Journalism, published in 2014. She is a long-standing member of the Society of Genealogists and the Guild of One Name Studies.

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ISBN 13	9781473823624
ISBN 10	1473823625
Title	Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors
Author	Adele Emm
Series	Tracing Your Ancestors Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Year published	2015-09-01
Number of pages	224
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