Basics of Genealogy
Begin your family history journey with clear, foundational knowledge about genealogy research. Learn essential terminology, understand how records are organised, and discover the first steps to tracing your ancestors.
Becoming a Professional Genealogist
If you’ve successfully researched your own family tree, and maybe helped friends with theirs, you might begin having thoughts about becoming a professional...
DNA Testing and Genealogy
In spite of all you may have been led to believe, DNA doesn’t have all the answers about genealogy. You won’t be able to take a DNA test and come up with...
Family History: How Far Back Can You Go?
There is absolutely no hard or fast rule about how far back you can go when tracing your family tree; it all depends on the available records. However, in ge...
Family History: What Do You Want To Learn?
The hit BBC television show 'Who Do You Think You Are?' made a lot of people think about family history and tracing their ancestry. But even before that reac...
Genealogy Problems You May Enounter In Your Family History Search
One thing you're going to learn very quickly is that genealogy isn't an exact science. It might seem straightforward enough - someone was born in a particula...
How Record Keeping Changed in the 19th Century
Record keeping altered drastically in the 19th century. Although the change is thought of as a product of the Victorian age, it actually precedes the accessi...
How to Make a Family Tree
We think of making a family tree as looking into your family’s past, but that’s not strictly accurate. Family history is what you research when you look...
How to Make Use of Genealogy Reference Books
Are genealogy reference books really useful? After all, there’s so much advice available online that books can sometimes seem obsolete. As many of these th...
Organising Your Family History Data
In family history, as in life, the more organised you are, the smoother things will flow. The box file stuffed with notes will work, but soon you're going to...
Preparing To Trace Your Family Tree
Preparing to trace your family tree can be as simple or as complex as you want. If you want to be basic, all you need to gather in the way of materials to cr...
The Importance of Wills in Genealogy
When looking at a family tree most people start at the obvious sources – census records or births, marriages and deaths. There’s certainly a great deal t...
What Genealogy Qualifications Can You Obtain?
The vast majority of professional genealogists have no academic qualification in the field. They might belong to different professional organisations, and ha...
Where To Begin In Researching Family History
There's more to finding out about your family tree than simply jumping in and delving through old records. So before you go on the trail of that 1901 census,...
Why Does Family History Fascinate Us?
Family history, looking into where were come from and tracing our family trees, has become incredibly popular. There have been several series of television p...