About this item
This handy book is a timeline guide to genealogical resources - what records are available and when they started - as well as an aide-memoire to significant historical events from 1066 to present; helping to put family ancestors into an historical context. Each page in this book has a main column with facts of genealogical relevance in the broadest sense; a side column makes mention of events of socio-cultural significance and events relating to the monarchy, the State and the Church. Entries cover historical and genealogical aspects of all four countries of the UK plus Ireland and the Channel Islands, as well as significant historical events in the wider world that had an impact here.The timeline is especially strong on the contribution of migration, extreme weather, disasters, epidemics, wars, nonconformist religions, taxation, transport, the armed services, famine, empire, organized labor, social writers, mapmakers, political unrest and scientific advances.
About the Author
Angela Smith is a native Texan and award winning writer and working musician. She is a graduate of the University of North Texas and is a former reporter for the Associated Press. Executive Director Emeritus of the Writers' League of Texas, Smith is now a full-time freelancer. When she's not writing, editing or gigging as a pan player, cellist or pianist, you can find her gazing through a telescope at star clusters, galaxies and nebulae, talking politics, or working on her next book ROCKING' WOMEN DRUMMERS: A HISTORY for Scarecrow Press.
