Shillito Family History Society
How to Trace Your Ancestors
A Link to Ancestors In Yorkshire Website free "Gen-Guide" guide to genealogy and family history research in Uk from home or abroad.

Gen-Guide is split into three sections

Section 1 Beginners:-
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Getting Started - discusses obtaining your first bits of information, outlines methods of collecting and storing the information and explains using Monumental Inscriptions

Section 2. Intermediate:-
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1. The main and most widely available types of Records, where to locate them, what information is contained in the records, their uses and limitations, including G.R.O. Index, Census, Church and Parish registers and other church records,.

2. Solving common research problems.

3. Which repositories may hold a particular type of record. 

4. Using other sources - on-line, printed and unpublished data.

Section 3 Further Realms
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Further records and sources of information including Directories and Lists. Paleography, Etymology, Wills and Probate, and writing family history. More problem solving pages.

There is also a Links List of links to other useful sites and contains handy addresses.

The Ancestors In Yorkshire site is still being developed -
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