Real stories

Extraordinary real-life stories of ancestry research to inspire you

Bertrand Clark tennis player

Family hero I'm related to the first black tennis player to play at Wimbledon

Cissy Lecky First World War nurse

Family hero My great aunt kept her WW1 nursing a secret

Annie Gulvin, gardener

Family hero My grandmother blazed a trail for female gardeners

Philip Frank, back row, with family 1900

Eureka moment Ellis Island held the key to my great uncle's wartime death

Adrian Stone with his Jamaican family tree

Reader story My family came here with the Windrush generation

Alf and Harold PoWs

My family hero Secret diaries revealed Dad's WW2 story

Past Everton footballers

Reader story Eight of my wife's family played for Everton