Tracing Your Ancestors from 1066 to 1837: A Guide for Family Historians

A simple guide to tracing British family tree before the onset of civil registration in 1837 and back to the Middle Ages.

The trail that an ancestor leaves through the Victorian period and the twentieth century is relatively easy to follow-the records are plentiful, accessible, and commonly used. But how do you go back further, into the centuries before the central registration of births, marriages, and deaths was introduced in 1837, before the first detailed census records of 1841? How can...