Tracing Your Police Ancestors: A Guide to Family Historians

Tracing Your Police Ancestors: A Guide to Family Historians

by StephenWade (Author)

Synopsis

Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of other sources. Case studies are used to show how an individual officer's career may be traced and understood from this research. He also explains the range of secondary sources open to the family or local historian, many of which offer a broader account of the social and cultural history of the British police forces.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 160
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Published: 16 Mar 2009

ISBN 10: 1844158780
ISBN 13: 9781844158782

Author Bio
Stephen Wade is a professional writer specialising in regional crime, family heritage and nineteenth century history. He has written numerous books for Pen and Sword, most recently Britain s Most Notorious Hangmen, Tracing Your Police Ancestors and DNA Investigations. He lives near Scunthorpe.