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Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors (Paperback) by Adele Emm
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Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors by Adele Emm is a richly detailed guide for family historians eager to uncover the working lives of their ancestors. Whether your forebears were blacksmiths, bakers, tailors, or wheelwrights, this book offers a practical and engaging roadmap to understanding their trades, training, and social context.
Emm explores the traditions and tools of dozens of crafts, from medieval guilds to Victorian shopkeepers, and provides expert advice on how to trace these occupations through historical records. With chapters covering apprenticeships, working conditions, and genealogical sources—including census returns, newspapers, wills, and trade directories—this book is both a reference and a window into the everyday lives of Britain’s working classes.
Highlights include:
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Insight into lesser-known trades like cordwainers, coopers, and milliners
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Guidance on using archives, museums, and online databases
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Tips for interpreting occupational titles and understanding their evolution
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A select bibliography and web resources for deeper research
ISBN : 9781473823624