Researching your family tree using Ancestry
Ancestry is a subscription service that has literally millions of records online that can be searched. This is where computer technology has really given family history research such a boost. The search facility a computer provides makes searching through a census for example a matter of simply filling in a form and then pressing 'go'. It is of course very easy to accidently find the wrong person and go down a blind alley but that can happen in off line searches as well!
The Project is my progress as a relatively new family history researcher as I work my way through all that Ancestry has to offer.
There are other online services which I shall hope to use further into the research as well using original sources as well. Although computers offer a fantastic way of getting going, nothing beats looking at the real, original item that was written perhaps hundreds of years ago about my ancestor.
Perhaps the most poignant find so far for me has been visiting the National Archive at Kew and seeing my great grandfather's signature on his First World War sign up papers. He was killed in Action less than two years later at the Somme.
A subscription to Ancestry is about £70 per year or you can choose a pay per view option, but this gets addictive and the annual sub works out very good value.