9 June 2018

Family History Documents

The Paper Trail

The following is an list of selected documents covering a wide range of topics connected with the family history. The list is organized in the following order:

alphabetically by surname
alphabetically by first known given name
date

Documents relating to women in the family may be listed by:

their birth surname, if this is the name they used throughout their lives regardless of marital status
their married surname, if they adopted their spouse's surname or a joint surname after marriage
both birth and married surnames:
- the birth, or maiden, surname is used if there are documents which date from a time before marriage
- the married surname is used if there are documents which date from a time after marriage

Documents in the list relating to a couple or a family have been listed by either of the following ways:

within the entry by the name of the husband followed by the wife's name, including her maiden name if it is know; then alphabetically within the list by the married surname
within the entry alphabetically by the surnames of both partners (unless it is known that a different order is preferred); then alphabetically within the list by the first surname in the entry

Family History Documents

The Paper Trail

List of Documents

A – C

D – E

F

G – K

L – M

N – O

R – S

V – W