Counting People: A DIY Manual for Local and Family Historians - Softcover

'Fellow John Moore has written an excellent introduction to local and family history in which he sets out to answer all the questions that hundreds of undergraduates and postgraduates have put to him in forty years of teaching. ' -- SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newslett SALON - The Society of Antiquaries Online Newslett There are many good things about this book, not least the bibliography of 57 pages. This covers useful skills such as understanding the handwriting and dating of documents, and sources for towns and the countryside, population and economic and social developments, arranged under time periods. -- British Association for Local History British Association for Local History Use this book as it suggests: a DIY manual. It has a good index and an excellent bibliography -- The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for anyone wanting to promote their research, the advice is very detailed and methodical. -- Genealogists Magazine Genealogists Magazine

Local and family historians are often afraid to use numerical data (Statistics) in their research and writing. Yet numbers are an essential part of much historical work, obviously in population history but also in local studies of agriculture, industry and social history. Counting People shows how amateur historians can use computers with appropriate programs to provide numerical illustrations of various historical topics as well as easing their researches. A final chapter covers research and publishing in local history. The Bibliography provides advice on local historical studies in England and Wales and a full list of sources for population history in England and Wales as well as guidance on the use of computers in local studies.