Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy (88 page)

    
Highland Clearances 321, 322

    
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland records 334

    
lunacy records 411

    
mining records 260

    
non-conformist records 130

    
Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) 43, 321

    
poor relief records 406

    
probate records 148

    
profile 507–8

    
railway records 297, 300

    
teachers' records 351–2

National Army Museum, Chelsea 158, 178, 179

National Association of Mining History Organizations 266

National Burial Index 125

National Coal Board (NCB) 254, 255

National Coal Mining Museum (NCM), Wakefield 36, 261, 262

National History show 71

National Index of Parish Registers (NIPR) 374

National Library of Ireland (NLI) 37, 131, 265, 316, 319, 322, 334, 346, 347, 352, 457

National Library of Scotland (NLS) 36, 43, 260, 265, 346, 508

National Library of Wales (NLW) 35, 36

    
assize records 475

    
Great Session records 450

    
Life on the Land exhibition 311

    
Newsplan 265

    
non-conformist records 123

    
online catalogue 43

    
parish records 118

    
profile 508–9

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 184, 185, 198, 199, 222, 224, 225, 230, 232, 245, 247

National Museum of Scotland 312

National Museum Wales (NMW) 262

national newspapers 288, 330

National Railway Museum, York 36, 301

    
Library and Archives 303–4

National Register of Archives (NRA) 37, 42, 249, 256, 273, 274, 289, 297, 315, 326–8, 332, 416, 432

National Register of Archives for Scotland (NRAS) 43, 289

National Society 349

National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) 258, 264, 265

National Union of Teachers (NUT) 351

National Waterways Museums 293

National Wool Museum, Carmarthenshire 282

Nations Memory Bank (NMB) 64

Naturalization Acts

    
1844: 378

    
1870: 379

naturalization records 378–9

Naval Discipline Act (1661) 183

Naval Who's Who
204

navvies 286

Navy Boards 247

Navy List 186, 203, 206, 210, 236

Navy Pay Office 188, 192

nephews 18

network websites 62–4

New Model Army 153

New Navy List
186

New South Wales 382, 386, 391, 392, 454

New World 183, 381–2, 387

New Zealand

    
child migration to 388

    
emigration to 381, 383

    
migrant records 392

    
parish registers 128

New Zealand Company 383, 392

newspapers

    
criminal trials 446

    
family memorabilia 12

    
online archives 60–1

    
research techniques 129

    
Swing Riots 321

    
see also
local newspapers; national

    
newspapers

nicknames 87

nieces 18

1901censusonline 105

1914 Star 170, 217

1914/15 Star 217, 229

1939–1945 Star 230

non-conformists 74, 113

    
Ireland 131

    
marriage records 77, 79

    
naturalization 378

    
oaths of allegiance 325

    
parish records 118–23

    
Scotland 130

    
wills 135

    
see also
Quakers; Roman

    
Catholics

Norman Conquest 134, 443, 447, 460, 462, 465, 466

Normans 372

North America

    
emigration to 309, 381–2, 387, 388

    
migrant records 384, 389–91

    
transportation to 382, 385, 451

    
see also
Canada; United States

North West Film Archive 285

Northern Ireland

    
adoptions 420, 423, 425

    
age of consent 79

    
census returns 111

    
civil registration 93

    
company registration records 327

    
criminal records 457

    
divorce 438–9

    
institutional catalogues online 43

    
lawyers' records 339

    
see also
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; Ulster entries

Norwich 458–9

Notable British Trials
446

note taking 49–50

Nottingham 461

nuncupative wills 136

nurses 346

Oath Rolls 325, 337–8, 341, 353

obituaries 12, 61, 129

    
war dead 181

occupations 220–365

    
historic 502–3

    
on family trees 23

Oddie, Bill 3, 36, 79, 81, 83, 107, 119

Office of National Statistics 77, 180

Old Bailey 450

One-Name Studies 57–8

online

    
amalgamated catalogues 41–2

    
census returns 104–6, 110

    
communities 63–4

    
DNA social network sites 505–6

    
etiquette and problems 64–5

    
family trees 25–8

    
forums 63

    
genealogy research viii, 59–67

    
GRO indexes 87–8

    
institutional catalogues 42–3

    
Latin and palaeography help 47

    
local will indexes 143–4

    
mailing lists 63–4

    
parish registers 125–7

    
pedigrees 57

Ordnance Survey (OS) maps 255, 272

Origins website 106, 124, 126–7, 142–3, 222, 351

overseas

    
British railwaymen 304

    
civil registration of Britons 89–90

    
civil servants 341

    
estates 140

    
parish registers 127–8

    
railways 300

    
wills 140, 141

Owen, Wilfred 167

Oxford Ancestors 504

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
31

Oxford University 324, 353

oyer and terminer 445

Pacific Star 230

palaeography 46–7, 461

palatinate courts 338, 450

Pallot's Marriage and Baptism Index 124–5

parish burials 117

parish records and registers 30, 35, 36, 74–5, 86, 112–31, 459

    
case study: Bill Oddie 119

    
Channel Islands 131

    
Church of England 113–18

    
illegitimacy 416–17

    
interpreting 114–18

    
Isle of Man 131

    
name indexes 123–7

    
non-conformists 118–23, 130, 131

    
online 65, 125–7

    
overseas 127–8

    
research technique 128–9

    
Scotland 59–60, 130–1

parishes 112–13

    
see also
bastardy examinations

    
poor relief

    
settlement system

Parliamentary Archives,

    
Westminster 275, 294, 401

    
Divorce Acts 431

Parliamentary Papers 275, 294, 401

parole system (‘tickets of leave') 454–5

passenger lists

    
emigrants 383, 390

    
immigrants 377

passport records 384

Patent Rolls 378, 470

Paxman, Jeremy 405

Paymaster General

    
PMG series 161, 162, 211, 239, 248

peculiar parishes 139

pedigrees 20–1

    
narrative indented 23–4

    
online 57

    
published 17, 54–6

People's History Museum, Manchester 280–2

Pepys, Samuel 183

Personal Ancestral File (PAF)

    
software 28

Pharmaceutical Society of Great

    
Britain 347

Philimore Atlas
124

Philip of Spain 476

photos 11, 14

physical clues 11–14

physical labour 45

physicians 348

Pinsent, Matthew 478

Pipe Rolls Society 448

piracy 471

place names 68

police 343–4

    
case example: Jeremy Irons 343

Polish refugees 370–1

Polish Resettlement Act (1947) 371

political movements 283–4

Poor Jews Temporary Shelter 375

Poor Law Act (1601) 397, 448

    
Elizabethan records 398–401

Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) 384, 387, 397, 402, 414, 418

    
abolition (1948) 403

    
records 400–1, 403–4

Poor Law Amendment Act (1850) 388

Poor Law Amendment Act, Scotland, (1845) 406

poor law records 418–19

Poor Law Unions 75, 97, 111, 356, 398, 402, 403–4, 406

poor relief 354

    
deserted wives 429

    
historical background 396–8

    
Ireland 406–7

    
nineteenth century 402

    
original records 285, 398–404

    
Scotland 406

population 459, 461–2

port records 368

portal websites 61–2

Post Office 288, 291–2

    
records 291

poverty 308–9, 396

    
case study: Jeremy Paxman 405

    
historical background 396–8

    
see also
poor relief

Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) 139–42

Prerogative Court of Canterbury Index 143

Prerogative Court of York (PCY) 139–42, 143

Presbyterian Church 130

Presbyterians 120, 130

preserving the present 15

Preventative Forces records 236

Preventative Water Guard 234, 235

Priaulx library 131

primary sources 10, 33

    
accuracy 53

primogeniture 134

Principal Probate Registry, Holborn 146–7

Principal Registry of the Family Division 433

prison registers and calendars 452–4

prisoners of war 212–13, 370 UK 370, 371–2

private sector (professional classes) 324–39

    
accountants 333–4

    
businesses 326–30

    
case study: Nigella Lawson 331

    
insurance and insurance agents 335

    
legal profession 335–9

    
merchants 330–2

Privy Council 156

    
PC series 387, 388

probate 135–6

    
changes in England and Wales (1858) 137–8

    
prior to 1858: 138–42

    
problems with 140–1

    
records

      
Channel Islands 149

      
England and Wales post 1858: 146–7

      
Ireland 148–9

      
Isle of Man 149

      
making the most of 133

      
online research guides 62

      
Scotland 148

Probate Act (1857) 138, 146

Probate and Matrimonial Office

    
(Northern Ireland) 438

probate inventories 136

problem solving 67–8

professional classes
see
private sector

    
public sector

professional researchers 71

Protestants

    
in Ireland 131, 365

      
divorce 437

      
marriage registration 74, 92

    
immigrants 366

      
naturalization 378

    
parish records 120–1

prison records 451–5

Prisons Act (1868) 456

Public Record Office of Northern

    
Ireland, The (PRONI) 35, 60