Tracking Down Your Ancestors

by Harry Alder

Researching your family history can be an absorbing hobby, or a one-off project that your whole family will value and build on. You can do it seriously or just for fun and a conversation topic, especially at family gatherings. This book will lead you to the vast number of genealogy websites, where family history research that used to take months can now produce exciting results in a weekend. Or you can find out how to do your own detective work at friendly record offices and beautiful parish church cemeteries.

Genres: Nonfiction

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Peter Biggs · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found a copy of the full text of this book online at howto.co.uk and dove in. I found the chapter on harnessing internet sources to be most informative - there are a huge number of genealogy mailing lists out there that I never would have known about otherwise.

I will be dipping into this frequently as the search for my ancestors continues.