'Teach Yourself Tracing Your Family History' is simply the most practical and comprehensive guide to tracing your family history that you can buy.
It covers everything you might need to know in order to trace the history of your family, wherever they have lived. It starts right at the beginning, giving advice on planning your research and establishing what you need to know, and moves on to how to interview your relatives effectively and draw up a family tree. Full guidance is given on where to find and how to use the various sources available to you, such as birth, marriage and death certificates, censuses, wills and a wide range of other sources.
Case-studies of family histories of famous people, including Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel, show how problems can be resolved and how a bit of determination and luck can produce interesting and rewarding results.
