Seeking that incontrovertible link…
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 research.
In this issue, Family Tree Academy tutor David Annal discusses the steps he took to solve a research problem that many of us will have encountered – that of two possible candidates for our tree, but the inability to work out which one is our ancestor…
Case study
Despite what the big genealogical websites might try to tell you, family history research isn’t easy. Looking for evidence of your ancestors’ origins in the surviving records can be quite a challenge, particularly in the era before civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. All too often, the information recorded in the Church of England’s parish registers just isn’t up to the job and working out whether a particular record of a baptism relates to your ancestor or not can seem like an insurmountable problem.
The subject of this month’s case study is
