How To Find Out More About The Place You Live In When Tracing Your Roots

How do I find out more about the place I live in?

If you want to find out more about the place you live in, you should really go to your local study center, which is often associated or linked to the main, local library. Alternatively, the county record office will also have a lot of administrative records, but it depends on what period you're looking at and how much detail you want. A lot of places changed dramatically in the 19th century because of the Industrial Revolution, the coming of the railways and the mass population movement. And so what you need to do is start reading all about the back history of your place, where you live now, or where your ancestors came from. So, local study center, main library, county archives – they will have all the books you need to have a look at.