Many genealogists will at some point find that their family research leads them to the medieval times. I came to this point after our family Bowles DNA results proved our deep ancestral roots to be " pure viking". This is one of those areas where I found that " the more I learned, the more I needed to know." I can see how one could spend a lifetime in researching this one area of history alone. I have followed our Bowles line to an area in Essex England. They seem to have been in this general area since they arrived with William The Conqueror. I have assembled some links which you might find helpful when you are researching a medieval line. Some links are genealogical and some are historical.
http://medievalgenealogy.org.uk/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~medieval/
http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/fun/genealogy/index.html
http://www.trytel.com/~tristan/towns/towns.html
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/townlife.html
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/collections/special/exhibitions/history_in...
http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/westciv/medievalsoc.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/
http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/royal0.htm
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/index.htm
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/
http://scangen.se/?go=start.htm
http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-01/aboutmfr.html
http://www.scotlandroyalty.org/archives/royalgen.html#charles
http://genforum.genealogy.com/medieval/
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/
http://www.genealogynewsgroups.com/newsgroup.asp?NewsgroupID=3
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/
http://fmg.ac/
http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/william.html
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/engplnam.html
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/engplnam.html
http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/gaz/gazweb2.html
http://www.the-orb.net/wales/mtib/mtifola.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/19990209145842/www.millersv.edu/~english/homepage/...
http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;idno=EGilds
http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Papers/Hosted/WomenMed.php
http://www.usask.ca/history/cjh/e/iss/text/96/dyer_496.shtml
http://www.today.plus.com/houses/
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medweb/
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/3670/index.html
http://www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk/kenilworth.htm
Hope you find this helpful.
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Since posting this 2 years ago, I have found the village where my Bowles ancestors settled. Their name was spelled Boulds. They are found in the records of the church of St Nicholas in Oddington, Gloucestershire England. They were Yeoman and farmers of crops and sheep with orchards on the land. The economy of the family took a downturn in the mid 1800's when the wool trade in England declined due to the demand for American cotton. At that point, and after the death of the family patriarch in 1850, the Boulds, Bowles, Bowls family started to move. My gggrandfather to America, his siter to Australia and other siblings found jobs around England.
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