Genealogy Forum UK

many thanks for your condolences Snowwhite, we are still trying to sort out all the "stuff" re my father passing away and that in itself is rather formindable if you've never done it before, and I also appreciate your comment re how searching one's ancestry has now become big business, this is exact...

My father died this morning and as he was the last side of my paternal tree that has closed that avenue. As for my maternal side, both my mother's parents had died by the time she was 14. There must be other folk out there faced with similar problems in tracing their family history and we must be ab...

Here in the UK we seem to be hampered rather than helped by the internet when it comes to reasearching our ancestors, coupled with the Government's rather extreme view of restricting census results younger than 100 years old (if anyone knows why please tell me). We also suffer from the fact that unl...