Family history, tracing ancestors

A beginner's guide to building a website that traces your family's lineage as a resource for present and future generations, or for finding new relatives.

A few months after two of his parents had died, Martin Rowson had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of stuff, both physical and emotional.

Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire.

Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling.

In this fascinating history of two turbulent centuries in an apparently idyllic place, Shakespeare effortlessly weaves the history of this unique island with a kaleidoscope of stories featuring a cast of unlikely characters from Errol Flynn to the King of Iceland, a village full of Chatwins and, inevitably, a family of Shakespeares.

'Engrossing' Daniel Beer, Guardian'A beautiful book.

**WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects.

When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard.

Navigate your way through your family s past Interested in family history?

Navigate your way through your family s past Interested in family history?

One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.

An abandoned baby.

Hosted by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, Long Lost Family has been a huge ratings success for ITV1 during the Spring of 2011, winning huge audiences of between 4.

In this acclaimed memoir from the award-winning author of Fragrant Harbour and Capital, John Lanchester pieces together his family's past and uncovers their extraordinary secrets - from his grandparents' life in colonial Rhodesia to his mother's time as a nun - with clear-eyed compassion.

Discover your roots with Family History for the Older and Wiser.

Discover your roots with Family History for the Older and Wiser.

The true story of a foundling.

NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care.

The House by the Dvina is the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage.

'Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory' SIMON SEBAG-MONTEFIORE The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized.

"e;Told through an intimate family portrait .

'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold'Powerfully told.

Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up?

"e;Riveting .

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Tudor tells a family story like no other.

_____________________________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JQ WINGATE PRIZE 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'A gripping thriller, an unspeakable crime, an essential history.

I am foreborn of spud runts who fled the famines of Ireland in the 1830s, not a man or woman among them more than five foot two, leaving behind a life of beggarment and setting sail for what since Malory were called the Happy Isles .

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'.

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm T ib n__________________In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm T ib n takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize'A remarkable achievement.

Dictionary of Surnames is the definitive guide to the origin and meaning of British surnames by one of Britain's leading authority on names.

What price betrayal?

An accessible, user-friendly handbook for all amateur genealogists seeking their Scottish roots.

Previously published as My Mam Shirley.

Previously published as My Uncle Charlie.

Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021'Rarely has family history been so vivid' JENNY UGLOW'An extraordinarily original work' AMANDA FOREMANLike many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons' wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans.

A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.

An extraordinary portrait of one family across the years of Japan's greatest changes; a loving, honest, moving biography of the author's mother.

The family trees contained within this ebook are best viewed on a tablet.

Part history, part travel journal and part autobiography, 'Hotel Tiberias' is a journey of many layers and resonances, as Sebastian Hope follows the tumultuous story of his family's hotel in Palestine.

This edition does not include illustrations.

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you?

A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, 'Netherland'.

FOREWORD BY RYAN TUBRIDYThe authoritative and comprehensive guide to tracing your Irish ancestryThere's never been a better time to trace your Irish family history.

'My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.

Drawn by family.