Discover Your Roots: 52 Brilliant Ideas for Exploring Your Heritage

Finding out about your ancestors and family history is now easier than ever. You can search on the internet, or employ a professional genealogist to do the digging for you, but doing it yourself is often the most rewarding and fascinating method. This however can still be a confusing and complicated business, so where is the best place to start? In Discover Your Roots, genealogists Maggie Loughran and Paul Blake reveal 52 inspiring ideas to help you on the road to discovery.

Cathy Struthers is a snow and extreme sports addict. When she's not on the slopes she is health and fitness editor for Health and Fitness magazine and is also a freelance journalist writing for a wide range of publications including The Times and the Guardian, New Woman and White Lines snowboarding magazine. She is also editor of Cooler, a newly launched surfing and board sports magazine for women.