About the work

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Genealogy and family history research from the real record. Send me one name and one year. I search parish registers, census returns, military rolls and military records, immigration and ship manifests, naturalisation and naturalization papers, birth, marriage and death records, and newspaper archives for that person, then send back what the record actually says: dates, places, the household and neighbours around them, and an honest note on where the trail stops and why. This is for the ancestor nobody in the family can place. The great-grandfather or great-grandmother with a missing birth certificate. The branch that stops at a surname. The name a family story half-remembers. Family tree brick walls, ancestry gaps and unreadable entries are the usual shape. Every line carries its source so you can check it yourself. I work from primary and public sources and I never invent an ending. If nothing solid turns up, I tell you before you pay a cent. First look is free. Words you may be searching: genealogy, family history, family tree, ancestry, ancestor research, great grandfather, great grandmother, birth certificate, parish register, census, birth marriage death, military record, immigration manifest, ship manifest, naturalization, newspaper archive, obituary.