St John's Top 5: Family trees 1500-1832
More and more people are enjoying the addictive pleasure of tracking down their family history. The research can be fascinating, taking you from interviews with relatives to a search on the internet, through to local archives, or even graveyards. In the past, however, family history and family trees were used to prove all-important family connections; rights to property and in some case privilege.
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