From Boudicca sacking Verulamium to Elton John hiring 32-yearold Graham Taylor to manage Watford Football Club, the heritage of Hertfordshire is full of risktakers. It’s an area known for aviation and papermaking, the venue of many seismic events and inventions, and today family historians have digital resources to help fix their forebears in Hertfordshire’s story.
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, the principal repository better known as HALS (), has more than three million documents and a vast reference library of books, newspapers and periodicals. Findmypast () holds the pick of HALS’s ecclesiastic records in a parish
