The Street-wise Guide to Doing Your Family History

This unusual book stands out in a crowded field.
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It provides practical, expert, insider-knowledge.
It includes a full guide to current websites.
It offers many tips, short-cuts and helps to access the evidence you need. And to understandings of what this means.
It is rooted in the many years of day-to-day enquiries in family history by the noted international expert Lady Teviot.
It will be invaluable to the beginner and of great value to the more knowledgeable.
It will help you rapidly to become `street-wise' in what will be a complex but fascinating personal endeavour.

Lady Teviot is an internationally known expert on family history research. She was President of the Federation of Family History Societies from 2001 to 2011 and is now a lifetime Vice-President. She is also Chairman of the Friends of the Keep Archives in Brighton, and she is a member of the Council of the British Records Association. Lady Teviot has featured in several of the very successful ‘Heir Hunters’ series on BBC1 television. Her company is Census Searches Ltd, a professional genealogical research firm which provides research into family history, probate and media research. Lady Teviot also undertakes lecture tours in Canada and Australia, and has also toured South Africa, USA and New Zealand. In 1965 Lady Teviot married the Honourable Charles John Kerr, who three years later succeeded his father as Baron Teviot in the House of Lords.