Where was my ancestor finally laid to rest?

Bury-born actor Layton Williams, a familiar face from Strictly Come Dancing and BBC Three’s sitcom Bad Education, goes in search of his London roots in the latest series of WDYTYA?. If you also have L

ANTHONY ADOLPH is a professional genealogist and the author of 11 books PAUL BLAKE is the author of Tracing Your Insolvent Ancestors KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset JAYNE SHRIMPTO

Discover the beautiful farmhouse where Anne Hathaway was born; the romantic idyll, with its overflowing gardens, where she and the young William Shakespeare fell in love

Time rolls on, and it was with some mild sense of shock the other day I realised it is some 50 years since my childhood interest in ghosts was first kindled – the summer of 1975. This was in East Angl

Poring over maps of Bolton, Ordnance Survey old and new, I’m wondering why my great-grandfather John Tonge and his family moved house quite so often. To help, I’ve drawn up a list, in date order, of a

This is the first of a series of articles; the intention being to provide an overview of useful family and local history records in existence, with advice on where to find them. The articles will incl