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I am the author of several best selling family history and genealogy guides, on Scottish, Irish and British subject areas. These are now available worldwide from the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States.

Pen and Sword titles

Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2013), £12.99
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Irish-Family-History-on-the-Internet-Paperback/p/3889
Tracing Your Family History on the Internet, 2nd edition (2014), £12.99 [NB: UK genealogy]
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Family-History-on-the-Internet-Paperback/p/6050
(E-editions also available for Kindle and ePub)

And coming soon in 2019 and 2020 from Pen and Sword:

Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet: 2nd edition
Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records


 


Unlock the Past titles

I am the author of several titles published by Australian based firm Unlock the Past. These are as follows:

  • A Beginner's Guide to British and Irish Genealogy
  • A Decade of Centenaries: Researching Ireland 1912-23
  • British and Irish Newspapers
  • Discover Irish Land Records
  • Discover Scottish Church Records (2nd edition)
  • Discover Scottish Land Records (2nd edition) 
  • Discover Scottish Civil Registration Records 
  • Down and Out in Scotland: Researching Ancestral Crisis
  • Irish Family History Resources Online (2nd edition) 



They can be accessed from the following retailers:


The books are also all available in ebook format (PDF):





The following titles, listed by publisher, are available worldwide from many retailers:

Family History Partnership

Researching Scottish Family History (2010), £7.95
www.thefamilyhistorypartnership.com/publications/publication-details.php?frmPublicationID=19


History Press


The Mount Stewart Murder: A Re-Examination of the UK's Oldest Unsolved Murder Case
(2012), £14.99
http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder/9780752460208/
(E-editions also available for Kindle and ePub)
(The true account of the murder of my three times great grandmother in Perthshire in 1866, the UK's longest unsolved murder case by a modern police force)






Others

Elsewhere I have contributed articles to the Family and Local History Handbooks 12-14 and the Irish Family and Local History Handbooks 1 & 2 (www.robertblatchfordpublishing.com), as well as History and Genealogy 2011: Australia and New Zealand (www.gould.com.au/History-Genealogy-2011-Australia-NZ-p/utp1001.htm).

Two scripts written by me for programmes I directed for the 2003 BBC Scotland series The Sword and the Cross were adapted for publication in an uncredited book, The Sword and the Cross: Four Turbulent Episodes in the History of Christian Scotland, from Saint Andrews Press.