Our Services

Research Packages

Choose from the following or contact us to talk over your requirements - we can adapt any package to suit you:

Package A - £125

One family line (i.e. surname) traced back to the early 1800s and late 1700s where possible. We will provide a printed family tree chart (see example chart) together with all the relevant birth and marriage certificates we have ordered on your behalf to track down family members plus copies of census returns and any other documentation we have found. Buy Now

Package B - £399

One family back to the early 1800s and late 1700s to include as many lines as we are able to find (see example chart). As above we will provide a printed chart and any certificates we have had to order together with copies of census returns and any other documentation discovered during our investigations. Buy Now

Individually tailored research

We offer a professional research service tailored to each client's particular needs or requirements. We can research all or part of your family tree and produce quality printed charts or supply the information in electronic GEDCOM format. As each project is unique please contact us to discuss your research requirements.

We always like to supplement our work with photographic records where appropriate together with photocopies of relevant documentation wherever possible. Copies of all birth, marriage and death certificates will be also suppled if we have to obtain them from the General Register Office on your behalf. Buy Now

Ancestry Detectives will search:

Parish Registers, UK Census Returns, Civil Registration Records, Wills, Court and Manorial Records, Newspaper articles as well as any academic papers written on the local area or population.

Whilst we use every effort to locate your ancestors there are occasions where we draw a blank. This could be because the records have been damaged or destroyed (by damp, mice or even vandalism), sometimes our ancestors 'forgot' to register events such as births and sometimes didn't go through a marriage ceremony so records do not actually exist. The local clergy could also be sloppy with their record keeping and sometimes their writing is pretty much illegible. However, these circumstances are rare and more often than not we are able to trace most of your ancestors back to the late 1700s and early 1800s and often even earlier.

One-to-one tuition

Sometimes just knowing where to begin tracing your ancestors can be bewildering so we also offer one-to-one tuition to get you started on becoming your own ancestry detective! Visit the Ancestry Detectives School page for more details. Buy Now