Tips for learning local history The value of researching the backdrop to our ancestors’ lives
Establishing the key facts about our ancestors’ lives is clearly important but you should look on these details as a framework on which to hang all the interesting bits; they’re a means to an end and not the end itself.
Realise: the importance of their local environment
Our ancestors lived fascinating lives and one of the aims of the serious family historian should be to retell their stories and to preserve them for future generations. Family history, like any type of historical research,
