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Yorkshire Probate

by Colin Blanshard Withers

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This long awaited book from
the author of
"Yorkshire Parish Registers"
will be a valuable resource

Limited edition of 400 copies
ISBN No. 0 9532029 2 5

A CD accompanies this book

CD Contents:
•	Previously unpublished indexes to material in the Borthwick: 'Lost' prerogative administrations; Visitation Probates; Vacancy Wills; Inventories Exhibited Late; and Wills Decreed Out of Court
•	Previously unpublished indexes to Dean and Chapter Wills in York Minster Archives
•	Index to wills in the Archbishops' Registers
•	Index to wills in the Surtees and Thoresby Society volumes
•	Manorial and Peculiar Court indexes to: Alborough; Altofts in Normanton; Arkengarthdale; Barnoldswick; Barwick cum Scholes; Batley; Castleford; Fenton; Hunsingore; Leeds Kirkgate; Marsden; Middleham; Newland; Selby; Swinton; Temple Newsham; and Warmfield
•	Indexes to Testamentary Disputes in the York Courts
•	Miscellaneous Wills Indexes, including: Attercliffe Wills; Bradford Wills; Wills in Yorkshire Archives (big); Holsworthy's Yorkshire Wills; Nuncupative Wills; and Early Civic Wills of York
•	The CD also contains Tables of Fees and Duties; Examples of Death Duty Forms; and Article Reprints of Dickens' "The Doom of English Wills" and Lawton's "Bona Notabilia"
	Thousands of names!

Probate is both the most frustrating and the most rewarding source a genealogist can discover. Frustrating because of its complexity, particularly in the Diocese of York, and rewarding because it can unlock the personalities, likes, dislikes and personal relations of our ancestors. Where else could you discover that a seventeenth-century clergyman’s son had ridden up to his father’s house in the dead of night, broken open his strong-box, and stolen the vicar’s remaining store of gold?

But in order to use the probate records one must first locate them, and then one has to understand their meaning. No-one has attempted to elucidate these twin requirements in one place in quite this way before, which is not surprising when one considers the enormity of the task. Colin Blanshard Withers has noted, described and explained more than 30 separate probate jurisdictions, and revealed several new, previously unknown caches of probate records, some from previously unknown jurisdictions. Not content with this already formidable undertaking, Colin has provided extensive indexes to the records he has found, and has summarised the nature of probate law and probate practice over seven centuries.

The result is a book which is unique in conception and execution, which adds huge amounts of information to our knowledge of the surviving records, and the interpretation of probate practice. Genealogists and other historians who have used Henry Swinburne’s book on probate law in the Northern Province, originally published at the end of the sixteenth century, George Lawton’s work on the parish structure of the diocese, published in the mid-nineteenth century, and Anthony Camp’s and Jeremy Gibson’s works on the location of probate records from the second half of the twentieth century, now have a reference work from the twenty-first century that brings together in one place information about probate law and location. It’s unlikely that anyone will ever attempt to supplant or replace this work, which joins the canon of reference works that will be used and relied upon for many years to come.

Chris Webb
Keeper of Archives
Borthwick Institute for Archives
University of York
April 2006

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Getting the Most
out of
RootsMagic

by Bruce Buzbee
author of RootsMagic

Postage: 2.49 in UK
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Learn the basics of RootsMagic genealogy software
and Explore advanced concepts and techniques

This book explains how to:
• Create a detailed family history
• Add photos, to bring your family history to life
• Use shortcuts to speed up data entry
• Create customised wall charts
• Organise your unfinished research
• Share your family history with others
• Publish your famiy history

Family & Local History Handbook
10th edition of the
Genealogical Services Directory

Postage: 3.00 in UK
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This handbook comprehensively covers all aspects of family and local history.
News articles - everything from beginning your family history to specialist researches. The internet and digital sources and resources are featured throughout, together with comprehensive listings of over five thousand useful addresses - all the archives, record offices, libraries, museums, registrars and family history societies. The first place to look to find where to look!

Ryedale and Villages
by Ronald Caisley

A collection of
postcard photographs

Postage: 3.00 in UK
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This book covers an area of Ryedale from the Wolds in the south to the Vale of Pickering in the north-west, down to Sheriff Hutton in the south-west. Some villages are better represented than others, due to the availability of postcards. This area covers some eighty villages and small towns. The following are featured here:
Acklam, Amotherby, Ampleforth, Appleton le Street, Barton Hill, Barton le Street, Barton le Street, Barton le Willows, Beadlam, Birdsall, Brawby, Bulmer, Burythorpe, Castle Howard, Coneysthorpe, Crambeck, East Lutton, Eddlethorpe, Ellerburn, Foston, Gilling, Great Barugh, Great Edstone, Harome, Helmsley, Helperthorpe, Hovingham, Howsham, Huttons Ambo, Kirby Misperton, Kirby Underdale, KirkbyMoorside, Kirkham Abbey, Langton, Malton, Marton, Normanby, North Grimston , Norton, Nunnington, Old Malton, Pickering, Rillington, Scampston, Settrington, Sheriff Hutton, Slingsby, Stonegrave, Swinton, Terrington, Thixendale, Thornton le Clay, Thornton le Dale, Weaverthorpe, Welburn, West Lutton, Westow, Whitwell, Wintringham and Yedingham

Levisham
A Case Study in Local History

by Betty Halse

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This is a book for people with an active interest in local history.
Using as an example the history of the small village of Levisham, situated in the heart of the North York Moors, the book focuses on the process of investigation – what sources are available? – where are they to be found? – what sort of thing can we find out from them? Levisham is a good place to investigate. Its history has been shaped by the landscape, so we start there. Scattered over the moor are archaeological remains going back to prehistoric times. There is the site of a medieval monastic sheep farm and iron bloomery, while down in Newtondale are the remains of a more recent attempt at iron production. The lives of its population of small farming families can be uncovered from their wills; the hardships of 19th century poverty from the parish Poor Book. The village was opened up to the world by George Stephenson’s railway, known to a new generation of holiday makers and steam railway enthusiasts as the North York Moors Railway.
The book is illustrated with line drawings by a village artist.
It has maps, full references and a bibliography.

Old Books
Some Books from our Library are now available to purchase:
	The Story of Yorkshire	A nice readable little history of the County. We recently put this one on a CD and it is proving very popular	5.00 (+ postage)
	1923 Directory of Harrogate, Knaresborough, Wetherby & District	Includes information about Clubs, Societies, Institutions, Schools, Churches, Councils, Hospitals, Banks, Post Offices, Markets, Baths and Pump Rooms, Wells & Springs, Resorts, Census Returns; Harrogate Streets, Named Houses, Street Directories and Alphabetical Directories for Harrogate, Knaresborough & Wetherby & Trades Directory	85.00 (+ postage)
	The Life of John Richardson of Kirkbymoorside	A leatherbound book, printed in 1757, giving account of the life of John Richardson, a Quaker, of Kirkby Moorside. He died near Hutton le Hole in 1753 and was buried in the Quaker burying ground at Kirkby Moorside.	145.00 (+ postage)
	Sketches of Bridlington by J. Thompson	Another lovely leatherbound book. Published in 1821. Stories from the history of Bridlington.	SOLD but available on CD here
	Parish Register of Arksey - Volume 1 1557 - 1735	Published in 2001, by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section, and issued to members of the Society. A complete transcript of the baptisms, marriages and burials registers for the Parish. As new.	SOLD
	Parish Register of Arksey - Volume 2 1736 - 1837	Published in 2002, by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Parish Register Section, and issued to members of the Society. A complete transcript of the baptisms, marriages and burials registers for the Parish. As new.	SOLD

updated Wednesday, 31st October 2007