This 4-week online course, led by Caroline Adams, is designed for family historians who want to unlock the genealogical potential of manorial records. Manorial documents are among the richest and most detailed sources for tracing ancestors before parish registers and civil records, yet their complex nature often deters researchers. This course will demystify these fascinating records, helping you to locate, read and interpret them with confidence.
Through illustrated examples and guided exercises, you will explore the structure, purpose and language of key manorial records, discovering how they can reveal patterns of inheritance, landholding, and community life across centuries.
By the end of the course, you will have developed the skills to interpret manorial records systematically and use them to enrich your family history research with new depth and precision.
- 20% Discount for all Society of Genealogists Members
- Recordings available until 18 July for everyone who pre-books
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About the Speaker
Dr Caroline Adams
Dr. Caroline Adams is a palaeographer and historian. She runs a research business, Key to the Past, and teaches palaeography online as part of her own business. Until 2014 she was Senior Archivist at West Sussex Record Office, and she is working on a book on Elizabethan Chichester. She is probably more at home in the early modern period than the present.
