{"id":20,"date":"2015-11-14T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchthepast.com\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2015-11-14T18:29:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T18:29:39","slug":"family-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Family History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Although I will look at family history of any kind, the following are some areas in which I have specialised knowledge:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Merchant seamen<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/researchthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/John__Cunliffes-1small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/researchthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/John__Cunliffes-1small-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"John_&amp;_Cunliffes-1small\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/John__Cunliffes-1small-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/John__Cunliffes-1small.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Apprenticeship records<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Emigrants and convicts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Coastguard records<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Royal Navy genealogy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Evacuation of Dunkirk 1940 veterans<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Liners and passengers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Ships your ancestors sailed on<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">I can also find important leads to build up the picture of your family history in the following ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Ordering birth\/marriage\/death certificates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Reading the census<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Reading wills<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Consulting parish registers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Records of maritime ancestors might be found amongst surviving passenger lists, log books, Register of seamen<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u00a0For information concerning my charges please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/researchthepast.com\/?page_id=25\">Research Fees.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The majority of research enquiries I receive concern genealogy in some way. I have looked for records relating to ancestors in a repositories all over the UK &#8211; for more information, please see Record Offices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">I have been stared at for snooping round churchyards photographing graves and have been ushered into nursing homes to interview surviving family members who are only just alive to tell the tale of their history. Whether a hands-on search for family members, or a delve back of three centuries is required I am happy to track down your ancestors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I will look at family history of any kind, the following are some areas in which I have specialised knowledge: Merchant seamen Apprenticeship records Emigrants and convicts Coastguard records Royal Navy genealogy Evacuation of Dunkirk 1940 veterans Liners and passengers Ships your ancestors sailed on I can also find important leads to build up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/?page_id=20\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family History<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/researchthepast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}