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This book aims to include most of the commoner Latin words which occur in parish registers, wills, title deeds, manorial records, etc and gives guidance to their meanings in English. 
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This glossary will be useful to both family and local historians.Local history students will find it useful when transcribing manorial estate papers. Family historians will obtain useful information if they study inventories which often go with a will. 
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New Special Price. This book encourages you to know more about the history of your street or parish, find out about the pepole who lived there and what they did. Also will help you interpret documetns such as, rating books and maps and where to find them. 
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This Gibson guide lists marriage indexes available to family historians in England and Wales. Includes contact details and charges made for searches. 
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Details of courtship, marriage and divorce are encompassed in this excellently indexed book. Nearly 200 marriage and divorce laws of church and state are mentioned with precise references to original legislation. 
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The author describes the wide range of resources available, indicating where the records of marriages can be found and how they should be used. 
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This publication is intended to help family historians understand medical terms that are found in parish registers, death certificates and in 18th and 19th Century books. 
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NEW LOWER PRICE. A history of the buildings and its varied uses until their closure in 2005. 
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Old prints and Photographs of Hospitals & Nurses in Berkshire and South Oxfordshire 1839-1930 
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NEW LOWER PRICE.In this account of the development of the Poor Law and charitable medical services in Berkshire and S.Oxfordshire, the author traces the history of medical treatment of the poor against the background of social attitudes and legislation. 
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This booklet covers the years 1518-1900. It aims to provide a practical approach to where records may be found and the difficulties which may be experienced in their use. The records are mainly related to England. 
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NEW LOWER PRICE! This book was written to mark the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Berkshire Hospital,which was founded as a charitable institution in 1839. The author traces the progress of the Hospital from its inception to its modern NHS status. 
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Military photographs stand out as different and distinctive. The book is profusely illustrated and covers our nations military history from the 1870's to the 1940's with chapters on soldiers of the Queen, WW1 and WW2. 
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Combines a short history of the Royal Marines with a wealth of information on where and how to set about researching and ancestor in the Corps of Royal Marines. 
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