You're in the right place. With essential advice from expert genealogists, our beginner's guide is the best way to sow the seeds of your research and watch your family tree grow.
Nigella Lawson
From a daring escape to the birth of a tea room empire
Trace your 19th century Jewish ancestry
Useful resources to build your family tree
Shipped out to Canada
The unwanted children farmed out to another continent
Victorians in New Zealand
How a genealogical query uncovered Maori connections
PLUS: Tracing early Jewish family, finding RAF ancestors, exploring your forebears in Cambridgeshire and the ancestor stranded in the Arctic for four years
1841 Cambridgeshire census
Find your ancestors among thousands of fully searchable names
Historic maps of Cambridgeshire
The region as seen through Cassini maps from 1836, 1899 and 1920
18th century county archives
Useful regional links