Explore Your Family's Past - Trace Your Roots and Create a Family Tree (Paperback, New edition)

How much do you know about your family history? This fascinating guide will bring the story of your ancestors to life, and help you to discover how the great events of the past have made your family what it is today. You could meet relatives you never knew you had and get the whole family involved in this absorbing hobby. Explore Your Family's Past shows you how, in easy step-by-step stages, you can reach back in time to trace and record the story of your lineage. Enjoy being your own family detective as you learn how to investigate wills and old photographs, find gravestones and coats of arms, interpret documents and decipher old handwriting, uncovering all the clues to your family's past. And it shows you how to turn your findings into a unique family tree that you and your descendants will treasure for generations to come.