Mapping our ancestors' lives
ESSENTIAL SEARCH SKILLS TO MASTER
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 related research.
In this issue, Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal looks at a range of historic map collections to help you trace the places in which people once lived and worked in centuries past.
A guide to The records
The documents that we use to research our family histories can only tell us so much about our ancestors’ lives. They provide us with the basic facts – the whos, the wheres and the whens – but if we want to gain a greater understanding of them as individuals, we need to spread the net a bit wider. We need to find answers to the hows and the whys.
Put their lives in context
When we focus on a particular family, it’s all-too easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Whether our ancestors lived in a remote settlement in rural Wales, a small market town in the south of England or a rapidly expanding mill town in the industrial northwest, they were part of a community. Their friends, neighbours and workmates, as well as
