he internet has both revolutionised and democratised family history, putting all of the tools you need to research, edit and share your family tree at your fingertips. These days, it's almost impossible to trawl the web in search of sources, documents, photographs and far-flung relations without coming into contact with at least one of the ‘Big Four’ paid-for genealogical websites: Ancestry (), Findmypast (), MyHeritage () and TheGenealogist (). Between them, they
