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| Family matters - a door to the past | | This is a guide to using the internet for researching your family origins. You do not have to be an expert in either genealogy or the online world, just interested in both. By reading this supplement it is hoped that you will be able to begin your research in an informed way, avoiding some of the pitfalls and learning from some of the mistakes others have made, if nothing else More... | |
| Getting started |
 Genealogy on the net
For those beginning genealogy: what do you hope to achieve? For me, being of an idealistic and romantic bent, genealogy is fundamentally about reclaiming the past for the millions of ordinary people who have otherwise been forgotten. I am fascinated by social history... | |
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| Detective story |
 In pursuit of Mary Lucking
My great-great-great-great grandmother, Mary Ann Pettley (née Lucking) died in April 1850 in Latchingdon, Essex, aged 75 years. I have her death certificate, but no other General Register Office evidence of her life because she was born, married and had her babies long before civil registration began in July 1837... | |
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| Anybody out there? |
 Making contact with the living
Genealogy has taken such a hold over the past decade that it is just conceivable somebody, somewhere has already started the task of researching your family history... | |
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| Now what? |
 Keeping records
Once your research is under way, you will soon discover the need for a good system of record-keeping. Research is not just about making discoveries... | |
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