Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a 19th-century genealogist? They had no access to online databases. There were no county record offices staffed by knowledgeable archivists, nor family history societies to provide advice. There were very few indexes to original sources, and access to those sources was very restricted. Parish registers, for example, had to be consulted in church vestries.
Despite these difficulties, genealogical research was still conducted - and much of it was published. stands at in 1834. Only the most important titles can be mentioned here. Taken together, these journals constitute an enormous resource that is rarely consulted by family historians. They are readily available in major reference libraries, but most of them have been digitised. You can also obtain bibliographies to find out what information the journals contain.
