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1.	Bourne, Susan and Andrew H. Chicken.
	Records of the Church of England: A Practical Guide for the Family Historian. 
	Maidstone, Kent: Prospect Litho, 1988.  1 v. (unpaged)

                                                  CS415 .B68 1988



2.	Cole, Jean A. and Rosemary Church.
	In and Around Record Repositories in Great Britain and Ireland.   3rd ed. 
	Ramsey, Huntingdon, Cambs: Family Tree Magazine, 1992.  138 p.

                                                  CD1040 .C65 1992



3.	Colwell, Stella.
	Dictionary of Genealogical Sources in the Public Record Office.  London:
	Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992.  xvii, 206 p.

                                             Z5313 .G69 C45 1992


4.	Colwell, Stella.
	Family Roots: Discovering the Past in the Public Record Office.  Rutland, Vt.:
	C.E. Tuttle Co., c1991.  231 p.: ill.

                                                  CS415 .C65 1991

5.	Cox, Jane and Timothy Padfield.
	Tracing Your Ancestors in the Public Record Office.  4th ed. by Amanda Bevan
	and Andrea Duncan.  London: H.M.S.O, 1990 (1991 printing) 266 p.  (Public
	Record Office handbooks; no. 19)  

                                             Z5313 .G69 C69 1990  

	 Includes bibliographical references.  



6.	Eakle, Arlene H., Arvilla Outsen and Richard S. Tompson.
	Descriptive Inventory of the English Collection.  Salt Lake City: University
	of Utah Press, 1979.  xvi, 168 p.  (Finding aids to the microfilmed manuscript
	collection of the Genealogical Society of Utah; no. 3)  

                                                  Z5313 .G69 E23  

7.	Foster, Janet & Julia Sheppard.
	British Archives: A Guide to Archive Resources in the United Kingdom.  New
	York: Stockton Press, 1989.  lviii, 834 p. 

                                                  CD1040 .F67 1989
	 Bibliography: p. liii-lviii.

8.	Gibson, Jeremy Sumner Wycherley and Pamela Peskett.
	Record Offices: How to Find Them.  6th ed.  Birmingham, England: Federation of
	Family History Societies, 1993.  60 p.: chiefly maps.

                                                  CD1040 .G53 1993
9.	Grannum, Guy.
	Tracing Your West Indian Ancestors: Sources in the Public Record Office. 
	London: PRO Publications, 1995.  x, 102 p.: facsims., 1 col. map.

                                                         CS203 .G73 1995
	PRO readers' guide; no. 11.

10.	Great Britain.  Public Record Office.  
	Guide to the Contents of the Public Record Office.  London: H.M.S.O.,
	1963-1968.  3 v.  

                                                       CD1043 .A553 
11.	Contents: v. 1. Legal records, etc.  v. 2. State papers and departmental
	records.  v. 3. Documents transferred 1960-1966.  

12.	Moulton, Joy Wade.  
	Genealogical Resources in English Repositories.  Columbus, Ohio: Hampton
	House, 1988.  xxxiv, 614 p.: ill., maps.  

                                             Z5313 .G69 M94 1988  

	 Includes bibliographical references and index.  
	 Supplement in pocket. 

13.	The Nation's Memory: A Pictorial Guide to the Public Record Office.  Edited by
	Jane Cox, with contributions by David Thomas, Timothy Padfield, and Michael
	Judd.  London : H.M.S.O., 1988.  viii, 56 p.: ill. (some col.)

                                             CD1043.3.N38 1988
14. 	Owen, Dolores B. 
	Guide to Genealogical Resources in the British Isles.  Metuchen, N.J.:
	Scarecrow Press, 1989.  x, 399 p.: ill. 

                                             Z5305.G7 O94 1989 

15.	Record Repositories in Great Britain: A Geographical Directory.  The Royal
	Commission on Historical Manuscripts.  9th ed., 2nd impression (with
	revisions).  London: H.M.S.O., 1992.  vi, 46 p.

                                             CD1040.R43 1992

	Includes bibliographical references (p. 42) and index.

16.	Reid, Judith Prowse.
	Genealogical Research in England's Public Record Office: a Guide for North
	Americans.  Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996.  xiv, 148 p.

                                                            CS49.R45 1996
 	"Local record offices of England and Wales": p. 85-93.
 	Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-135) and indexes.

17.	Rodger, N.A.M., 1949-
	Naval Records for Genealogists.  N.A.M. Rodger.  London: H.M.S.O., 1988.  iv,
	220 p.  (Public Record Office handbooks ; no. 22)

                                             Z5313.G69 R63 1988
	Bibliography: p. 200.
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