How to Trace a Pedigree

To do this more efficiently, and to save unnecessary expense, he should first ascertain and set down whatever _is already known_ on the subject or can be discovered, before proc...

The searcher will presumably now have new ancestors to note; so, before he starts will-hunting, he should have some idea as to how to record them on a family “tree.”

Having thus gone through what seem to be the most probable wills for his purpose, the pedigree-hunter may profitably wend his way to a large library, and consult printed authori...

We have already considered the subject of Wills and Parish Registers. Besides these, there is a multitude of miscellaneous manuscripts from which genealogical information can be...

But he may not have done this, or he may have occasion to jot down his forbears on paper either for his own recollection or for the information of others. Of course, this must o...

While the greater part of what has already been written applies to the pedigree-hunter in London as well as elsewhere, he has naturally, as being located in the British metropol...

_Cause Papers_, another variation of legal documents, are to be found there; also _Marriage Licence Bonds_ for the whole of Ireland, and, indeed, nearly all the more important d...

This, however, is not thrown open to all comers in the hospitable manner experienced at the London Record Office, and application must be made by the genealogist for a special p...

We have previously seen that wills in Scotland have not the same evidential value as in other parts of Great Britain, that Irish wills can be practically all found in Dublin, an...

Chamberlain’s _Angliæ Notitia; or, The Present State of Great Britain_, commenced in 1663, and was continued nearly every year until 1755. If information is required between the...

Is pedigree-hunting a dry and generally uninteresting matter, valuable only for the information to be derived from it, or is it a source of interest in itself, even if considere...

There is no doubt that if any one wishes to expend a small fortune in record-searching he may find opportunity of doing so; if, on the other hand, even shillings are an object t...

This is so important that it may be well to reiterate it at the close. It is often easy to get information second-hand; but to make it his own the searcher may have to exercise...