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Tracing your ancestors and drawing up family trees are becoming enjoyable interests for more and more people. With so many new enthusiasts starting up research in this area, it is important that they have the right type of advice from the outset.

To help the complete beginner embark on the task of his or her research, Eve McLaughlin, an acknowledged expert, has compiled this simple guide; each stage is explained with clarity, common sense and humour.

She leads the reader through all the primary sources, the Public Record Office at Kew, the County Record Offices and the Parish Registers. There is advice on interviewing elderly relatives, tracing long lost cousins and what you can and cannot achieve by post. As your family tree begins to take shape, shee is a friend at your elbow, explaining in simple language what appears to he complicated and opening up the avenues of exploration back to the beginning of the 19th century.

Eve McLaughlin's guides have been extremely popular for several years and are highly regarded amongst family historians. This collection has been carefully revised and updated and contains much new material.