Family History Research

 

Researching your family history is fast becoming the most popular of hobbies and attracts people from all spheres of life. Backtracks offers a professional approach to personal family history research, tailored to suit each individual client. This may range from checking dates and names to confirm an existing pedigree to a full family history research project.
Family History Photo
Tracing Families Back Through Time
Backtracks will search out and trace your family history to provide you with a special, unique record of your ancestry, complete with photographs, maps and local history background.

 


Typical sources used in the research of family history would include records of :
  • Civil registration of birth, marriage and death from 1837 in England & Wales.
  • Census returns from 1841 to 1901
  • Church and chapel from 1538 onwards
  • Crime and punishment
  • Education
  • Settlement and the Union Workhouse
  • Probate - wills, administrations and inventories
  • Property to include both rural and urban estates, manorial courts, tithe and enclosure.
  • Taxation records from Tudor times onwards

 

Family Trees


When the researches have been completed, BACKTRACKS can provide you with a high quality, laminated family tree from standard A4 size up A0 size. Other sizes and non-laminated copies can also be provided upon request.
You can either send the GED COM file or Family Tree Maker file to BACKTRACKS who will produce the family tree direct from your file OR send your family history information and BACKTRACKS will draw up a first-draft tree for you to check and approve before going to print.
Family Trees can be single line pedigrees, complete family trees (including maternal lines); laid out as drop-line trees or fans.
For advice on your particular family tree or to see a sample tree, contact Liz Carter.

 

The process of researching a family history may take some time - it is not unusual for searches to continue for 12 to 18 months or longer depending upon the amount of material available and the historical footprints left by your ancestors for us follow.
Backtracks offers a comprehensive service, catering for different types of research from pure Record Agent work to detailed Genealogical Research.

 

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