Locating Your Ancestors (Geographically Speaking); Getting to Know What You Are Looking For; Starting Offline: Basic Genealogical Sources in the UK; Going Online: Searching Official and Commercial Websites; Storing and Organizing Information in Your Computer; Coordinating Your Attack: Getting Help from Other Researchers; Sharing Your Wealth Online; Creating a Place to Call Home; Ten Handy Databases; Ten Things to Remember When Designing Your Genealogical Web Site; and Ten Sites That Offer Help.

Become your family?s historian without leaving home

If you want to find out who you are and where you come from, this book is for you. Our expert authors – the team behind the BBC hit series Who Do You Think You Are? – give you a step?by?step practical guide to discovering your family?s past and piecing together your family tree – all from the comfort of your own computer.

Discover how to

• Begin building your family tree
• Track your ancestors? travels
• Navigate through archives and collections
• Identify useful Web sites
• Organise and store the information you find online

Matthew L. Helm and April Leigh Helm manage several leading online genealogical resources.

April Leigh Helm is the President of FamilyToolbox.net, Inc. April lectures on genealogy and other topics for various conferences and groups. She holds a B.S. in Journalism and an Ed.M. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana?Champaign.

Nick Barratt is the genealogical consultant for Who Do You Think You Are? and runs his own research agency.