Like all good hobbies, researching your family history can come with a few costs. Although there's plenty you can do for free, once you get stuck into your research, you will find there are things you need to pay for, from birth, marriage and death records to genealogy subscription websites.
Although we cover plenty of free websites in this magazine, many of the records that family historians want to access are tucked behind a paywall.
Since accessing these payto-view records is probably the main cost for most people researching their family tree, this article looks at how you can do that for less, whether it's extending your