Tracing Your Servant Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

A resource for family historians to explore the lives and careers of their servant ancestors.

While there are popular and academic books on servants and domestic service, as well as television dramas and documentaries, little attention has been paid to the sources family historians can use to explore the lives and careers of their servant ancestors. Michelle Higgs's accessible and authoritative handbook has been written to serve just this purpose.

Covering the period from the eighteenth centu...