Family History: Digging Deeper

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 genealogical traditions, variants of family history around the world and even the abuse of genealogy 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.

Since taking early retirement from The National Archives, SIMON FOWLER has been a professional researcher specialising in military history of the two world wars and the records of central government since 1800. He has written two dozen books, mainly for Pen & Sword. Simon teaches a course on military archives at Dundee University, and teaches family history courses, including several on military genealogy, for Pharos. He is a very experienced lecturer and has done many radio interviews.