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there is considerable delay before
work can be commenced.
Where an amateur researcher
from, Say.
requires
assistance
another part of the country or over-
seas he can then apply to the Society
Genealogists (address given
of
above) for the name of a local Reasons for Undertaking Research
researcher who will probably be - Tliere are five reasons for wishing
prepared to try and provide the to undertake this type of research.
1. Personal, a simple interest in
answer to his query. Negotiation
between the applicant and the the family pedigree.
researcher is left to the applicant.
2. Personal. to provide a link
Fees for such researches Vary con- with an armigerous anestor with
siderably and one is strongly the object of establishing one's own
advised to ask the fee before com- right to use the appropriate armorial
mitting oneself to a particular bearings.
researchet.
3. Personal and general, a matter
of interest in making a collection
Protestation Oath Rous - These of a number of family pedigrees.
rolls dated 1641-42 are kept in the
4. Professional or semi-profes-
record office of the House of Lords. sional, carrying out research for
They contain lists of people holding other people either on a purely
office at the the who affirmed professional basis or to occupy one's
their loyalty to the crown. A similar time, the other party purely paying
roll named the Association Oath the expenses of the research.
Roll was signed in 1696 and is he1d
5. A combination of two or more
at the Public Record Omce.
of the above.
Public Record Office - See Census
Now let us consider these in some
Returns 1841 etc., Non-Parochial. detail. Most people have an interest
Registers and Records, and Records in their own family, though this
of Services of Members of the interest varies very considerably in
Armed Forces.
different countries. Possibly the
Scots are the most interested and
rhere is an old Scottish saying
' Heredity is a hereditary study '.
Because of the clan system. Scot-
tish history goes back a long time
before civic records were main-
tained. The family links are excep-
' Q ' List or Record Publication - tionally strong and it is tme to say
A guide to the publications put out chat where a family history is in
by the Record Commissioners and existence in connection with a Scot-
the Masters of the Rolls. This can tish family it is more often than not
be obtained free of charge from accurate.
H.M. Stationery Office. With regard to the Welsh and the
Irish, their early history may or
rnay not be correct. The more
prominent families invariably go
back to the Welsh Princes or the