Can anyone tell me roughly how much I am looking at to research my family tree?
I would see how far you can get on the free sites first before forking out for the subscription sites. Then when you are ready to join Ancestry etc you will have a much clearer idea of what you are looking for and will be able to make the best use of your subscription. Besides, you will probably need to buy a few birth, marriage and death certificates at £7 a time to take you back to the 19th century. Talk to all your relatives, ask to see old photographs, records of birth, baptism, death and marriage, family Bibles, funeral service sheets, etc, and make copies. Find out where all your deceased relatives are buried, visit the graves, transcribe the information on the gravestones and take photographs. If you don’t know where people are buried or are unable to visit the graves, you may find them on www.findagrave.com Too many of us family historians regret not questioning the oldies closely before they popped their clogs, so get all the names, dates and places you can and then check thes
