Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

by Brian Elliott

In the 1920s there were over a million coal miners working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today - many of us have a coal mining ancestor.

Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848842392
• ISBN13: 9781848842397
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"