Do you want to know exactly who your ancestors were: where they lived; what they did for a living; whether that story of highwaymen, criminals and corrupt relatives is factual, or a figment of Grandma's over-active imagination?

Genealogy - defined as 'an account of the descent of a person or family through an ancestral line', is a high faulting description of what, to the rest of us, is known simply as 'tracing the family tree'.

Nostalgia, which has become very popular in recent years, has found a wealth of collectible interests emerging amongst a public ever eager to get their hands on anything connected with the past: old postcards, postage stamps, paper ephemera, 1950s and '60s memorabilia - and family trees!

It seems that today we are not content to know just how our ancestors lived - and I mean specific ancestors, namely those whose genes, characteristics and hereditary behavior are the sum result of our very being.

We have a vast library of directories to aid in the research of your genealogy or local and regional history.

Directories provide a wealth of information at regional and local level, as well as providing a full listing of cities, towns and villages the people who lived in them and professions they followed.

Directories are being added all the time, so if you do not find the area that you are looking for please feel free to contact us and we will gladly keep you up-to-date.

Browse through our genealogy faqs page.