Researching Troy Town
Local and family history research have changed immensely within the last generation or so. Some of us remember heaving the index volumes around at St Catherine's House (it was good exercise), or winding through reels of microfilm at Portugal Street, or scribbling furiously in record offices, trying to get down the maximum amount of information in the time available. Now, many resources are available online. Many are free. Many more are accessible through sites offering paid subscriptions. The cost of a subscription to a site such as Find My Past is more than offset by the saving in the time and expense of travelling to a record office, and being able to work at any time of day or night. Most of the research for this blog so far was done online. Principal sources used include: Parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials from Find My Past Local newspapers from Find My Past Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills from The National Archives (free to access) Edward Hasted's ...