Tracing Your Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians

An accessible, well-organized, easy-to-use beginners guide to the world of family history.

In a series of short, practical chapters Simon Fowler's Tracing Your Ancestors takes readers through all the first steps that will reveal the lives of their ancestors and the world they lived in. He looks at every aspect of research, from finding family papers and interviewing relatives, through exploring websites, archives, newspapers and directories, to all the other sources that can throw a light in...