So who hasn't come up against a "brick wall" at some time or another with their research for long lost or unheard of ancestors. I certainly have but thanks to generous help from other researchers I have managed to go back a couple of centuries with my family tree.

This website is not about giving away free ringtones, cheap flights on Ryannair or Easyjet but is about helping you with your family history searching.

This site is about making as much information freely available to other researchers as time permits. I will include photos eventually but at the moment I need to get as much text and links to freely available online data as I have or have come across.

The pages of this website, or links to other websites, are all pages that have been transcribed and are viewable online (no payment is needed !)

You do not need to sign up to view the content of this website, the content will always be "free to view"  as I don't believe you should have to pay for information that has already been payed for thousands of times over. Why put money into a few peoples pockets when you can share your knowledge.

This website now has a forum which is up and running and I'd like to encourage you to make use of it for the above reasons, so if you need a lookup or want to assist others with finding their ancestors please feel free to join in.n.

You may not have heard of him (he was an Englishman) but P. C. Bartrum was recognised as being a leading researcher in the field of genealogy when he passed away and The Independent newspaper published an obituary about him. Click here to read the article. 

I don't encourage personal emails but occasionally people would rather not show their family connections online so I will accept private emails.

Please sign in to the forum so I may email you directly.

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