Consider the bigger picture!
The Family Tree Academy is here to help you grow your genealogy skills. The aim is to help teach more about the search skills and source know-how needed to step up your family history research.
In this issue, Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal discusses the huge boon that researching the wider branches of your family can represent, and how very much you will be making your life harder if you only stick to researching your direct lines.
Make your life easier…
Every now and then, I come across a family historian telling me that they’re only interested in their direct ancestors. I’m never quite sure how to respond while maintaining my professional decorum! Not only are they missing out on a whole host of potentially fascinating stories, they’re also making their job as a researcher that much harder. So often the answers to our trickiest genealogical problems are to be found in records relating to our ancestors’ siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. To ignore these records is to shut off countless invaluable research opportunities.
This month’s case study
This month’s case study is an example of how important
