794円 Have you wondered about your ancestorsーhow they arrived in the area that they did, what were their lives like, and what legacies they passed on to future generations? This book traces one family, the Odis Harper family, from 1845 to the present day. It chronicles experiences from slavery, the Ji...

250円 Census records are a snapshot of your family at the time the census was taken and contain a wealth of information that you can use to see the lives of your family. This book explains the information that the census records lists and how you can use the information in your family histories. The bo...

7,129円 This important book examines the motives that drive family historians and explores whether those who research their ancestral pedigrees have distinct personalities, demographics or family characteristics. It describes genealogists’ experiences as they chart their family trees including their insi...

779円 In 2007 a twelve-day trip to Irelandーmy ancestors’ homelandーturned out to be the most significant turning point in my life. I never dreamed when I embarked on my adventure it would lead to me becoming a genealogist, meeting dozens of Irish rellies, writing two fiction series set in Ireland, and...

1,485円 The 21 censuses that have been conducted in Britain since 1801, have provided an invaluable insight into Britain's social, political and economic history over the past 200 years. From their original purpose to assess how many men were fit for military duty in the Napoleonic wars, to being a neces...

3,315円 'Truth telling and truth recovery have seldom been as heart-breaking or necessary as in this powerful story of human vulnerability and failure - and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.' JOE DUFFY At only five months old, John Cameron was abandoned in a Dublin orphanage, and fostered out as ...

848円 This is the first book to give a synopsis of what actually went wrong to such a promising country like Zimbabwe and also has concrete suggestions on how to arrest the decline and change the economic trajectory. It has identified policy and leadership failures along the 40-year history of the coun...

1,459円 'A tender and heart-breaking story with a shocking family secret at its centre...I was weeping happy tears at the end' Saskia Sarginson One crisp and bright Mothering Sunday, Alexandra Abbott's now elderly mother, Elizabeth, reveals a secret that she has kept buried for over 50 years... April 196...

562円 En el siglo XV, cuando los europeos pisaron tierra venezolana, se prendaron de sus islas, sobre todo de Paraguachoa (Isla Margarita), situada al noreste de Venezuela en el Mar Caribe. Mi padre, Aníbal Gómez Ortega, relataba que sus antepasados eran canarios y que arribaron a Margarita en un buque...

1,326円 Murder, violence, and intimidation are the bitter grapes of the Becerra and de la Garza families, early day Spanish settlers who had been in Texas several generations when Stephen F. Austin and other American empresarios received land grants in the early 1820s and 19302. The author, a member of t...

2,135円 ‘One of the non-fiction books of the year.’ Andrew O’ Hagan A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world of missing people When Francisco Garcia was just seven years old, his father, Christobal, left his family. Unemployed, addicted to drink and drugs, and adrift in life, Chri...

1,779円 The slave, Saidiya Hartman observes, is a stranger torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. In Lose Your Mother, Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a jou...