Tracing Ancestors In The UK

I have been a uk genealogist since 1993, and have helped many American, Canadian and Australian people find their British ancestry. Although previously based in Northamptonshire and offering mainly Northamptonshire searches, I am now offering a full British ancestry research service for a flat rate. What are the benefits of my service? If you have [...]

One of the most common problems when tracing ancestors is the variations you will come across in surname spellings. There are several reasons why this happens. 1.  Up until the 19th century there were no standardized spellings for surnames.  Also, many people rarely wrote their own name and many of the documents that we use [...]

When you have information about your ancestors which takes you back at least one hundred years, you can start using census records, and in this article I will discuss using the British census online. The arrival of the internet has made it much easier to look at census details. All of the census reports from [...]

One of the first things you need to do after you have noted all your own immediate family information, is to find records for birth, deaths and marriages in the civil registration records. First make a note of any information that you do not have, such as your grandparents’ marriage, their dates of birth etc. [...]

Once you have started to gather a little bit of information you will need to start putting it into the proper format so you can see at a glance the people on your tree, and any information that is still missing. Learning how to draw a family tree is quite simple, and it is a [...]

In any genealogical research, we ALWAYS start with what we already know and work backwards.  So the first step in tracing your family tree is to make some notes on everything that you already know. That means writing down all you know about your immediate family – names, dates and places of birth, marriage and [...]

Welcome to my website, where you can find lots of information, resources and services for tracing your ancestry in the UK