How To Guides

Straightforward help and guides on how to find your family tree – and a few tricks too!

Recording Initial Family Tree Information

by Tricia
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The first thing you must do when you start to find your family tree is talk to as many family members as possible.  The second thing is to make good records of everything they say, however insignificant it may seem. The best way to record this initial information is to split it into two types.  [...]

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How To Search The Main BMD Indexes on Ancestry

by Tricia
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When you use some of the online sites like Ancestry to find your family tree, you need to search the index in a way that isn’t always obvious.  Sometimes you need to actually trawl through the index itself rather than search using a name.  The way to do this is not difficult, once you know [...]

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