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Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in England and Wales

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This book constantly refers you to magazine articles, other peoples books etc. Want to know where a great list of web sites are - look in FTM AUG 07 or some such info. Very useful if you have that around, useless otherwise. Just when the information is getting detailed enough to be useful, he refers you to another source for more information. Opening at a random page, the first paragraph has 7 references to magazines and phamplets and 4 web site references, all of which I had previously found with google. If you had all these books and sources around you would not need this book!!

There is a lot of information here, heaps of statistics, but there are other books to use to get started and much better ones for if you are stuck. This does not bring the subject to life at all.

This book is exactly as described. It is not a story about the author's tracing his own genealogy. The author tells you what resources exist and how to find them and use them. Very, very helpful to those with roots in England and are just starting to research them. The few anecdotes included only add to your knowledge. Covers 16th century and forward.