Your Family Tree, April 2004
"This is an exceptional piece of research work that provides title information and historical lineage of 2,500-odd titled families and more than 3,200 knights".
“[Burke’s displays] a richness and depth that no other work comes close to".
Baronage.co.uk, March 2004.
"In a perfect world, every family historian would have this book..."
Family History Monthly, March 2004.
“ Burke’s has always been a fantastic tool for genealogical and historical research. This new edition has made great strides in becoming more useful and easier to navigate for ordinary family historians".
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The 107th edition of Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage cost around £1,000,000 to produce and took two years to compile. | |
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The publication runs to almost 5,000 pages | |
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Each set weighs 10.5 kilos | |
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120,000 living people are featured in the book | |
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The publication contains around 2,500 articles on titled families, 3,200 Knight’s articles, 140 on Scottish Chiefs (some 60 of which are either hitherto unpublished or substantially augmented), scores of Scottish feudal barons. And 14 articles covering Irish Chiefs. | |
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Entrants include people linked to historic families, the military, politics, the arts, industry, education and much more. | |
| The oldest family in the book is unquestionably O’Neill (pages 3003 + 3009) dating back to the fifth century AD, the oldest family in western Europe. | ||