Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

A practical and informative guide for family historians interested in researching their British ancestry through social welfare records.

Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about. Tracing Your PauperAncestors provides a guide to documents and records that family researchers can use to trace their pauper ancestors.

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