Professional Research Cumbria & Lancashire
How Can I Help You Discover the People and Places You’re Searching For?
Whether you’re a relative beginner to searching for your ancestors, an experienced amateur, or a professional requiring locally based Cumbrian or Lancastrian archive work, I will provide you with high quality research, analysis, and reports that will help you in your quest to discover more.
My main family and house history research counties are Westmorland, Cumberland, and Lancashire. That is, modern day Cumbria and Lancashire, alongside parts of the surrounding areas of Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, and Merseyside.
Family History and Family Trees
I will help you find family across England as far back as 1837 when civil registration began. Before this I can discover your Westmorland, Cumberland and Lancashire ancestors by searching parish registers, bishop’s transcripts, probate records, alongside the many other documents and manuscripts that are held in county archives and elsewhere.
I can untangle ancestral puzzles that have created brick walls in your family tree research, and help solve your elusive family history mysteries and myths. If you are wondering where and how to begin finding out more about your forebears, I can kickstart this for you and provide pointers that will help you on your own journey into family history research.
Oral Histories
Would you like to have a permanent recording of a much-loved relative talk about their life, and to have a reminder of their voice that you can keep forever, before passing down to your children and grandchildren? I can interview older relatives in their own homes or at another suitable location, such as a hospice, always promoting a personal, relaxed and friendly environment. I am trained by the Oral History Society, including in interviewing during palliative care, and can provide a gentle, unhurried atmosphere in which interviews can take place.
House and Property Histories
Do you live in a house with a long history? Or was it once a church, school, meeting place, or community venue and you want to know more about its origins? Using newspapers, maps, title deeds, manorial records, census returns, and more, I can investigate your home, revealing stories about the people who lived, met, or worked there.
Palaeography
The study of old handwriting
Get In Touch With Me
If you’d like to find out more about any of the services I offer, please use my contact form. I will reply to you as soon as possible and we can talk further about your requirements. I offer an initial 30 minute consultation free.
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