Getting to grips with life as a nineteenth century soldier whilst filming at Chester with Melanie Sykes and Albert Charlotte I have experienced research amongst records ranging from birth certificates to Medieval tax lists Tudor heralds’ pedigrees to workhouse records and ancient gravestones to DNA testing. Before then I acquired 12 valuable years’ experience as a genealogist and latterly Head of Research for one of Britain’s largest and longest-established firms of genealogists.ĭuring my career I have overseen research all over Great Britain and Eire, and in countries as far afield as America, Australia, Sierra Leone and India.
LOOKING UP MY FAMILY TREE PROFESSIONAL
I have been a freelance professional genealogist since 2003. If so, you can hire me to plan, organise, impliment and sort out the research for you. You might want to know all about your family but lack the necessary time or knowledge of the sources, or the ability to travel. If so, you can hire me to try to overcome a particular problem. You may be enjoying researching your family tree, but are stuck.
Getting to grips with some old documents and pedigrees at the start of my professional career in the early 1990s In addition, family history reports can make marvelous presents for birthdays, weddings and wedding anniversaries, Christmas or other special occasions.
LOOKING UP MY FAMILY TREE WINDOWS
Learning about family history also opens fascinating windows on local, social and national history, and reveals unexpected connections with people, places, countries, occupations, faiths and historical events. In an increasingly dislocated world, it means a lot to be able to find out where our families lived, how we ended up where we are today and what life was like for our forebears. Tracing family trees is now one of Britain’s most popular pastimes.
More and more people are coming to me now having found a ‘ready made’ family tree on-line, to ask me to verify it, or to confirm that it was incorrect and find the true ancestors instead.
One aspect of my work which is ever more in demand is problem-solving – seeking to overcome blockages in family trees which may have existed for many years, which have been caused by lack of records in the more obvious places, or by sloppy research in the past. Myself explaining Gary Lineker’s family tree to him on BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are?, 2013
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