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This talk sets out the history and development of the criminal court system prior to 1971 looking at the main courts relevant to family history along, types of cases and records you might find, where you might find them, what you might find in them and problems which may be encountered in using the records.
Sarah Pettyfer holds the IHGS Higher Certificate and Diploma in Genealogy and is a professional family and house history researcher and a solicitor (no longer practising). It is therefore not surprising that her specialist areas of interest are legal records, such as court records, both civil (manorial, chancery, etc) and criminal and deeds. Sarah prefers to undertake pre-C19th research. She is a Member of AGRA, RQG, APG. Sarah is also the author of "Tracing Your Surrey Ancestors: A guide of family historians" part of the Pen and Sword 'county' series".
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