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.
Alistair McGowan
Tracing the impressionist's Anglo-Indian heritage
Full steam ahead
Britain's railways and the men who built them
Poverty's larder
The changing tastes of the working classes
Reader story
How one reader found a Lord Mayor in his family
PLUS: How to find Lincolnshire family, track down ancestors in Spain, uncover lost towns and use Burke's Peerage
Railway employees list
Listings of 84,000 workers compiled by the Railway Ancestors Family History Society
Railway resources
A guide to the printed sources of railway staff details
Unseen show footage
Getting started guide