About this item
This book is the ideal companion for anybody researching their family tree. It provides advice and inspiration on methods and problem-solving and helps the amateur family historian understand what successful professionals do to get results, and why we should copy them. Over the course of 10 chapters it examines the various themes that affect the success or failure of all genealogy research. This begins with an overview of common challenges genealogists encounter and continues with an examination of how to both search effectively and find the right documentary sources. Using examples from her own family history as well as client work, teacher and professional genealogist Helen Osborn demonstrates how to get the most from documents, analyze problems, and build research plans.
About the Author
Helen was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1961 into a family of writers. Her grandfather was author T. O. Beachcroft, her mother is children's author Nina Beachcroft and her sister is anthropologist and fiction author Katy Gardner. Helen has been writing for fun since she was a teenager and has been a professional genealogist specialising in English ancestry since 1998. For many years she was the archivist at Young & Co's Brewery PLC in Wandsworth SW London. She was a founder and Managing Director of online family history tutors, Pharos Tutors until 2020, and has been responsible for creating many courses and innovating in the teaching of family history and genealogy in the UK. An occasional contributor to family history magazines, she is also the author of three books relating to public houses and brewing. Apart from a passion for historical records, archives and family history, her greatest interest and hobby is growing fruit and vegetables.
