Author(s): Simon Fowler

General

An exciting new addition to any family historian's library, Family History: Digging Deeper will take your research to the next level. Joined by a team of expert genealogists, Simon Fowler covers a range of topics and provides clear advice for the intermediate genealogist. Helping you push back the barriers, this book details how to utilise the internet in your research and suggests some unusual archives and records which might just transform your research. It will teach you about geneological traditions, variants of family history around the world and even the abuse of geneology by the Nazis. It will help you understand current developments in DNA testing, new resources and digitised online material. Problem-solving sections are also included to help tackle common difficulties and provide answers to the brick walls often reached when researching one's ancestors. If you want to dig deeper into your family tree and the huge array of records available, then this book is for you. SIMON FOWLER is the former editor of Ancestors, the family history magazine of The National Archives.
He has written many books on family history and is one of the leading genealogical reporters in the country. He lives in Richmond upon Thames.