Civil Registration a record going back 172 years
23/02/2010
Welcome to our second articles in a series on how to trace your family history. This month we will be looking at Civil Registration.
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How to begin to trace your Family History
Welcome to the first column on family history. Each month I will be looking at various records and offering tips to help you trace your family history.
This month I will be offering tips on how to get started. I have outlined what I perceive to be 5 of the most important steps when starting to trace your family history.
Royal Research and Gentle Genes
"When my grandmother died I was given an old tin box full of his family papers. It was a treasure trove of letters and diaries, old sepia photos, bills and a detailed paper trail of two hundred years of colonial existence." Author Barbara Erskine vividly describes a lifetime's interest in Genealogy.
Discover how to trace your family tree – by joining our live webchat this Wednesday
Fascinated by the past? Love to find out more about your roots? Then join in our live webchat this Wednesday - and ask the experts for their top tips on how to trace your family tree.
Find out who you are
If you are one of the many thousands who tuned into the return of the BBC’s popular family history series ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ last month, you might like to know that you can now trace your own history, free, with Ancestry.co.uk.
First World War records now available online
Ancestry.co.uk in partnership with The National Archives is now offering key sets of First World War records on their website for the first time.
Time travelling to our Victorian pasts
Tony Robinson has done his share of time travelling over the years. Now he has turned his attention from digging up the past to digging up ancestors – metaphorically speaking that is. He talks to Tony Watts.

