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Taking your first steps to retrace your family history can be intimidating if you don’t know where to start. Trying to find all of the right documents can be tiresome. Luckily there are a number of different ways that you can trace your family history. Birth certificates, old photographs, and asking around are great first steps to take in tracing back your family history. Our expert discusses how to get started in your genealogy research.

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Questions Answered by our Experts

Stella  Colwell
Stella Colwell-Author and Family Historian
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Nick Barratt
DR Nick Barratt-Genealogist
Meet the Expert 
Migrant Ancestors 
  1. Stella Colwell
  2. What is a Migrant Ancestor? 
  3. Does everyone have a migrant ancestry? 
  4. What are Naturalisation Records? 
  5. What if I need to trace Naturalisation Papers in the USA? 
  6. How do I follow a migrant paper trail? 
Further Research 
  1. Stella Colwell
  2. What can I do if I'm stuck? 
  3. What is the register of voters? 
  4. How can it help me? 
  5. What is the directory of names? 
  6. How can I use the directory of names? 
  7. What other directories are there? 
Getting Started 
  1. Stella Colwell
  2. How do I begin to trace my family history? 
  3. Do I only include my immediate family? 
  4. Should I start with my surname? 
  5. I have a step family should I include them? 
  6. Should I include occupations? 
  7. If family are spread across the UK would this more difficult? 
  8. Should I draw up a family tree? 
  9. How do I draw up a family tree? 
  10. Can I get a professional to do draw up a family tree? 
  11. Should a family tree extend both vertically and horizontally? 
  12. Should I start tracing my family history from my Paternal or my Maternal line? 
  13. I'm stuck, what should I do? 
  14. I'm not sure what questions I should ask? 
  15. What should I be wary of? 
  16. Should I compile a checklist? 
  17. What can souvenirs and heirlooms tell me? 
  18. What do I do if I have no living relatives? 
  19. What do I do if I don't know where I come from? 
Your Research 
  1. Stella Colwell
  2. What is the civil registration for births, marriages and deaths? 
  3. What is the County Record Office? 
  4. Are they useful to me? 
  5. Where else can I go to search records? 
  6. What is a birth certificate? 
  7. Where can I obtain a copy? 
  8. What should I do if I am adopted? 
  9. How do I look for a marriage within my family History? 
  10. How do I look for and obtain a copy of Birth Marriage and Death Certificates? 
  11. I'm stuck, what can I do? 
  12. What do I do if I am from another part of the UK? 
  13. What is the Census? 
  14. What information does the census hold? 
  15. Where can I obtain a copy of the census? 
  16. How will the census help me? 
  17. How do I use the census? 
Tracing Your Family History 
  1. Stella Colwell
  2. What is a family history? 
  3. Why would you want to trace your family history? 
  4. What will my family history tell me? 
  5. Is it useful to help me find out about myself? 
  6. When should I start? 
  7. What is a family tree? 
  8. What is a pedigree? 
Family History 
  1. DR Nick Barratt
  2. What's the difference between a Family Tree and a Family History? 
  3. Do I need to do both? 
  4. I know very little about my family where do I start? 
  5. When should I start tracing my Family History? 
  6. I'm stuck, what should I do? 
  7. I only have a nickname of a relative how do I trace them? 
  8. How do I trace my surname? 
  9. My surname is very unusual, how do I begin to trace it? 
  10. My surname is very common, how do I begin to trace it? 
  11. I need to trace a place or location, can I do this and how? 
  12. How do I trace an occupation within my family? 
Tracing Your Roots 
  1. DR Nick Barratt
  2. How would I start to trace my family tree? 
  3. Where do I get a copy of my birth certificate from? 
  4. My family are all across the world, where do I start? 
  5. My family are from Scotland, where do I start? 
  6. My family are from Ireland, where do I start? 
  7. My family are Welsh, where do I start? 
  8. What do I do if I find skeletons in my family history? 
  9. I've found my family tree, what next? 
  10. What is Genetic Genealogy? 
  11. How do I find out more about the place I live in? 
  12. I'm adopted, how do I trace my family tree? 
  13. What kinds of things can I trace, apart from my family? 

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