Publisher's Synopsis
A step by step guide to tracing your family tree, explaining the lines of research in Great Britain and abroad with advice on using sources such as government and parish records, wills, land deeds, military lists and official registers.;The family historian is shown how to make the best use of expert knowledge and how to recognize unusual or unexpected clues from the past. Royston Gambier was the former Treasurer and Chairman of the Federation of Family History Societies and is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists and of the Huguenot Society of London. Noel Currer-Briggs is a director of Ancestry Research Associates and was the editor of "The Country Gentleman's magazine", his books include "The Carters of Virginia - Their English Ancestry".