Track down your ancestors - Estelle Catlett

Family history is big news. So big in fact, that when the government put the 1901 census onto the internet, the website immediately crashed because no one had remotely anticipated the immense number of users keen to log on!

And, family history is getting bigger. Given the masses of information now obtainable via the internet, family history is much more accessible than it?s ever been.

With five major printings already under its belt and its supremely practical approach, Track Down Your Ancestors has always been a great seller for Right Way.

For this relaunch, Estelle Catlett brings in the increasingly important area of internet detective work and has rigorously updated all her advice on how to gain information from the Registries of births, marriages and deaths, the census returns, parish registers, wills and probate records, old newspapers and the National Archives.