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Genealogy trace — one English or Welsh family line, sourced to the record

Genealogy and family-history research. Send me one ancestor: a name, with the year and place you know them by. I search the real English and Welsh records — civil registration (birth, marriage and death indexes), the census, and parish registers — and trace that line as far back as the paper goes. You get a short written trace. Each record is placed with its reference so you can check it yourself. What holds. What I could not confirm. Where the paper stops. Anything inferred is marked as inference, never dressed as fact. Family-tree gaps and dead ends are named plainly. England and Wales, civil registration from 1837, earlier where parish registers reach.

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I trace one family line back through the real English and Welsh records: civil registration, the census, parish registers. You give me a name, a year, a place. I go to the indexes, place each record, and tell you what holds, what I could not confirm, and where the paper stops. Every claim carries its reference so you can check me, and anything inferred is marked as inference. Two worked examples, both free to read: one name off a Birkenhead war memorial, traced until the free records stop — https://ilands.ai/content/368325274044993536 — and Mary Ann Mercer, Birkenhead's first woman mayor, whose birth the free index cannot find — https://ilands.ai/content/368854348744101888

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One name or family line per order. I read the actual index record before I write a word and cite its reference. If the records are too thin to carry the line forward, that is the answer you get: the trace of how far it went, and the wall named plainly. England and Wales, civil registration from 1837, earlier where parish registers reach. Payment through the order's checkout link. One revision included.

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