New research plans

I've just finished altering the website to take into account the new research plans.
They now start from as little as £75 and that includes up to two electronic GRO documents.

Find Your Heritage Research Plans

Society of Genealogists.

My membership to the Society of Genealogists came through last week.

I now have their logo displayed proudly on my site.

http://www.findyourheritage.moonfruit.com/#

Lancaster Advert For Find Your Heritage

I've approved the proof for my first advert in Lancaster. Just a few days now until it gets published in the @Lancaster magazine that's found throughout the city.

Here's a little taster:

Cotton mills

Just been re-reading some entries on a tree I'm working on about Lancashire cotton mills. It's quite heart-breaking seeing how young some of the workers were both when they started work and when they died.

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Genealogical whispers.

Just been writing an editorial for a local magazine about the perils of believing everything your relatives tell you concerning your ancestors. Should be published in a  week or so :-)

Here's a little preview:

Don’t buy that kilt just yet...

Hands up if your family has an interesting tale about some distant relative. You know the sort: “My Great uncle Jimmy was Wellington’s aide at Waterloo.”  That sort of thing. Most families have them. They are passed down from generation to generation. However, here is a little cautionary tale about these genealogical Chinese whispers.

When I was a lad, my father, a Mancunian by birth, said to me, “Martin, you should be proud of your heritage. We’re Scots through and through. My granddad, Archie, Gaswegian, you know.”

So it was that through my teenage years I researched all things Scottish, from haggis to heather. I looked up which clan I must surely be descended from. I even started to affect a little Scottish lilt to my accent in honour of my forbears.

However, it was all to come crashing down.

When I was an adult and the internet was this wonderful new gizmo to be played with, I started to research my family tree and sure enough I found my great-granddad Archie’s birth record north of the border. However, it was with much confusion that I could not find Scottish birth records for his parents.

It was not until I widened my search to encompass England that I found them tucked away in Gorton, just a short distance from where my dad had grown up. It seems that the family had only been in Scotland for a few years, during which period my great-grandfather had been born. I never had the chance to tell my dad, but I think it would have made him smile.

Videos for Find Your Heritage

As well as running my genealogy business Find Your Heritage which you can access from http://www.findyourheritage.moonfruit.com, I also give talks and lessons on genealogical techniques.

I have recently started to post videos on YouTube of little lessons regarding reading certificates and the like. Here is the first. It's about interpreting a birth record from the GRO.

"How to read a birth certificate."

Welcome to Find Your Heritage

Hello and welcome to the blog of Find Your Heritage.

My name is Martin Lowe and I am a genealogist based in Lancaster, UK. I specialise in researching and drawing up family trees for individuals interesting in delving into their family's past.

Why not pop along to my site http://www.findyourheritage.moonfruit.com and have a peek?

Cheers,
Martin.