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Genealogy and Baptismal Records From the Middle Ages
One of the vexing questions for genealogy is why more records weren't kept in the Middle Ages. After all, these days we know their value in legal...
Genealogy and Wills From the Middle Ages
In the Middle Ages, as now, parents made wills to ensure their offspring would be recognised as their legal heirs and inherit their property. In some...
How Far Did People Move in the Middle Ages?
The image we have of the Middle Ages is of serfs tied to the manors, rarely going more than a few miles from home in their entire lives. That’s...
Medieval Ages Legal Records And Genealogy
In the Middle Ages, rolls weren't food, although they were the meat and drink of legal records. They were essentially registers of court decisions,...
Middle Ages Manorial Records and Your Family History
During feudal times, and even beyond, the manor was the basic administrative unit. The lord would be granted the land by a higher magnate in return...
Middle Ages Poll Tax
The Poll Tax was actually one form of what was called a lay subsidy - a tax paid by all non-churchmen on movable property to help fund the army in times of war. The...
Middle Ages: Problems Tracing Ancestors
1538, when Anglican parish registers were really first kept, is a watershed date for all genealogists. After that, however murky it might seem at...
