How to Trace Your Family Tree: Discover and Record Your Personal Roots and Heritage: Everything from Accessing Archives and Public Record Offices to ... Public Record Offices to Using the Internet

This title offers accessible and clear advice on discovering your family's history in the UK, explaining the best research techniques, how to log and collate your research.It contains all the information needed to start your own search including a useful checklist to guide through each stage.You can experience the amazing thrill of tracing back your bloodline hundreds of years and discovering who your ancestors were and what their lives were like.It contains over 135 illustrations, including diagrams, contemporaneous photographs, document facsimiles, sample family trees and artworks.It includes sections on Welsh, Scottish, Irish and Channel Island records, as well as English.This book introduces the subject of genealogy in a highly practical form, and explains the process of tracing and finding ancestors in the British Isles in a simple and easy-to-follow way.The book begins with the very basics of starting to research, guiding the reader through each stage, from finding clues in photo