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Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors
Adele Emm
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Description for Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473823624
SKU
V9781473823624
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5
About Adele Emm
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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