Your family tree: What information do we need?

To help us find the information, we wish to ask what you already know about your ancestry. This would provide our starting point. If all you know is your own date of birth, we can work from that. However, we do not want to use your funds to find out something you already know, so to help us work as efficiently as possible for you, please send us details of what you know about each ancestor.

For each person you know about, the forms ask for:

name
occupation
religion
date and place of birth
date and place of marriage
spouse(s') name(s)
date and place of death

You will probably be able to answer fewer of these questions the further back you go but do not worry - just tell us what you do know and we will research the rest for you! If you already have your family history details stored on computer, you can cut and paste them into our form or send these to us by e-mail or post.

Most of our clients embark on research purely out of interest – or to check out a family legend or scandal. Some have specific goals:

Discovering all your great-great grandparents
Tracing a particular surname line back as far as possible
Tracing cousins
Checking out a family story

Whatever the reason, once you start on your journey into the past you will find a world of amazing interest – changing occupations and places, religious affiliation, matters of life and death itself.

We will tailor our research (and quote) to your own needs. Research is presented in the form of a written report, with copies of relevant documents, detailing and explaining our research and results.

Achievements can trace any line of ancestry for a specific purpose. These are a few:

Research your Family Tree
To establish the origins of a migrant ancestor.
To obtain citizenship of Britain and Eire.
To establish the right to use a Coat of Arms by proving male-line descent from someone to whom arms were officially granted.
To follow the genetic descent of talents, defects or diseases.
To trace missing heirs and missing relatives, working closely with the legal profession or the families concerned, or establishing details about funds in Chancery.