Hi all: The latest (2nd) edition of Herber (2005) is almost two hundred pages longer than the 1997 first edition - and is even better than it. I reviewed it or GENUKI at: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/AncestralTrails2.html Cheers Brian Cheers Brian On 20 Jan 2014, at 19:50, Jean Harris wrote: > Hi all > > Brian is so right as after 40 years of researching my own family history I have never seen or read a better book than this one by Mark Herber. It was published 1997 with the association of the Society of Genealogists, London. > > AND the joy of it is that he gives examples from his own Devonian families!! Hence he quotes many Devon documents and sources. > > I am sure that a copy can be found in any major City Library (Dewey decimal 929 for genealogy) and University Library. Find this book and enjoy!! > > Jean Harris in Toronto, Ontario > > (a former Devonian) > On Jan 20, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Brian Randell wrote: > >> Hi Bev: >> >> Yes - I'd heard of this, I think from reading the splendid book: >> >> M.D. Herber. Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History. >> >> which I regard as *the* best single book on UH genealogy. >> >> Cheers >> >> Brian >> >> On 20 Jan 2014, at 09:48, "B. Edmonds" <beverley@yourisp.com.au> >> wrote: >> >>> I wonder if this is the origin of the " Crew Cut " hair style. >>> >>> I thought I was seeing things when I first saw this: ) Bev >>> >>> A Hundred Years Ago >>> >>> An important tax of the year was the one known as the Hair Powder Tax, by >>> which a guinea per annum was imposed on all wearers of hair powder. The >>> penalty for infringing the Act was £20 >>> >>> >>> Riverine Herald (Echuca, Vic. : Moama, NSW : 1869 - 1954) Monday 24 June >>> 1895 >>> >>> http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/114982046 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >>> ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >>> and >>> the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >>> List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU >> EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 >> URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------ >> The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon >> ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) >> and >> the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) >> List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell