The Home Genealogist

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The Home Genealogist provides you with the knowledge and resources to start tracing your family tree. I have been researching my own family's heritage for over ten years now. This website combines many of the lessons I have learned and where you can find the information to start discovering the exciting story of your own ancestry.

How easy is it to trace your family tree?

If you know how to use search engines on the internet follow links and browse websites, then researching your family tree is probably easier than you think. All the basic information, births marriages and deaths, is available to anyone who can access the World Wide Web. Some websites are easier to find than others, and that is hopefully where this website can help.

Is it expensive?

Although many of the web-building websites such as Ancestry do require a subscription, there are sources of information for which there is no charge. These include baptisms, marriages and deaths which have been transcribed from church records by dedicated teams of volunteers and a good number of census records are available at no cost.

Where do I Start?

I have put together an article about how you can get started researching your family tree. I try to keep this as jargon-free as possible. I am certainly not a professor of genealogy so as far as this website is concerned, the simpler the better!

Do try to speak with the rest of your family, your grandparents and great-grandparents can be wonderful sources of information. Speak to uncles and cousins. Some may have worked on their family tree you can utilise. And get the kids involved. Discovering the history of the family is a great way to add to their education.

The best way to start is what you already know. I will be producing two easy-to-use templates to help you on your way and keep […]
Birth marriage and death records
England & Wales Birth, Marriage and Death records, or BMD, are kept by the General Register Office of England and Wales, part of the National […]

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The best way to start is what you already know. I will […]
Birth marriage and death records
England & Wales Birth, Marriage and Death records, or BMD, are kept […]

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