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Ideally, you want to get back about 100 years from family knowledge so that you can look for your ancestors in the 1911 census (the most recent one available). Otherwise you will have to work backwards from birth, marriage and death certificates. So 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 these against the official records. Then work back one generation at a time, using birth/baptism, death/burial and marriage records, and the census. The nation
