Category Archives: Background research
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT YOUR ANCESTORS
If you have carried the initial research necessary to take your ancestry back as far as possible, you will no doubt have used the main resources – that is, civil registration, census records and parish records. What these records will … Continue reading
Does Your Family Hold a Coat of Arms?
It is a common belief that every family has a family crest or coat of arms in their history. This is not true in the least. There really is only one way to know for sure whether your family has a coat of arms or family crest and that is through research. Continue reading
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Visiting Your Ancestors
When you are next thinking about where to go on holiday, why not try an ancestral trail, and visit the homes and places where your ancestors lived and worked? If you have done a lot of research, and have some … Continue reading
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How to find out about your ancestors’ lives
Tracing family history is an exciting, fascinating, often frustrating, but thoroughly compulsive activity. It’s a never-ending hobby, because a family tree is never completely finished. But as well as going back as far back in time as possible, there is also the fascinating research that can be done into an individual’s or family unit’s background. Once you’ve got the bare bones of your family tree, it is then even more satisfying to dig deeper and find out about your ancestors’ lifestyles. Continue reading
