The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to
offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced,
on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in
England and Wales. It takes into account recent, and even some future,
changes to the civil registration system, and incorporates many of the
vast sources newly available on the internet. There is also a
substantial bibliography for those who discover that their ancestors
migrated from other countries. New appendices provide research into
underregistration of birth and death, and hitherto unpublished details
from the 1915 and 1939 National Registers.
The family tree detective remains an indispensible source of information
on how to locate births, marriages and deaths, and alternative
strategies if those searches fail.
Dr Colin D. Rogers is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, a member
of AGRA (the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives),
and was for thirty years the Hon. General Editor of the Lancashire
Parish Register Society. He runs a consultancy helping banks and
solicitors to identify and locate beneficiaries.