Records
Records are the resources from which most family history depends. The range of records that still exist is vast ranging from birth, marriage and burial records held in local parish churches, to the myriad of legal documents that have survived and to the amazing resource of the census records. It is the uploading of census records onto the internet, with its intrinsically easy searchability, that has opened up the study of family history and genealogy to anyone with a computer and the time and interest to start researching.
Whatever your interest in researching your family history, very quickly records become
the source for finding new information. They provide a glimpse into the world in
which our ancestors lived -