How To Start Your Family Tree is a beginners guide which has everything you need to get started with tracing your family history and discovering your ancestors. This collected edition of beginner features, previously published in Family Tree, is packed full of expert tips, how-to advice and lots of ideas for starting your family tree from scratch and writing up your family history. With the guidance of How To Start Your Family Tree, you could soon trace your ancestors back to the Victorian era and beyond. And we don’t just focus on names and dates, also included are: • Exploring birth, marriage & death records • How to use the census • Caring for your precious documents and photos • How to write up up the story of your family • Why join a family history society? Tracing your family history is a hobby which will give you many years of enjoyment, and with our expert tips, it’s easy to get started today.​